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Article: Tubular success; It's no fish tale as a group of Twin Cities anglers reel in their share of cold-water species on a float-tube trip to the Gunflint Trail.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1996
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Lakes in this part of northeast Minnesota have been paddled by French voyageurs, Iron Range Finlanders and Twin Cities yuppies.
Recently, some friends and I plied them in inner tubes.
Fancy inner tubes, to be sure. But inner tubes nonetheless.
Our intent was to fish some of the more than 50 lakes straddling the Gunflint Trail that are managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for cold-water species such as brown and rainbow trout.
With me were Dick Hanousek and Bob Nasby of St. Paul; Bob's 10-year-old grandson Bobby (The Stick) McGraw, and Rueben Swenson, who lives out of his truck.
"I live up here on the ...