He anchored the boat on the shore and tied on a 6-inch Castaic swimbait, a big soft rubber lure that looked exactly like a trout.

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It was not second-string Batch himself, nor the easy lure of celebrity bankruptcy, that gave rise to a slew of soft news articles and blogs on the subject in the last week.

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