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By Doug Smith, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
LAKE VERMILION, Minn. (MCT) - The fish hit hard, sending my rod tip dancing.
After a brief tussle, I reeled a 16-inch walleye to the boat. It glistened in the late afternoon sun.
"Finally," I said.
Lake Vermilion was giving up its walleyes grudgingly on this particular weekend. After nearly 2 ½ days of fishing, it was my first walleye.
And no, it wasn't just incompetence. My 10 fishing partners had managed only a handful of walleyes between them, too.
Oh, we caught northerns, largemouth and...