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Frank Sargeant

Frank Sargeant got his first fly rod when he was 10 years old, earned by selling Burpee seeds. It was a 3-piece bamboo built by South Bend. He promptly set it down, assembled, next to the kitchen stove, and forever after it was set in an arc as though he was eternally fighting a five-pound bass.
He has owned some much better rods since, though probably none that caught so many fish—a hundred bluegills a day was not impossible on the north Ohio farm ponds where he fished.
Since then he’s fished all over North and South America, New Zealand and a number of Pacific islands, and has written thousands of magazine articles for every publication from Field and Stream and Outdoor Life to The Readers Digest. He was a fishing guide at Homosassa before becoming long time outdoors editor of the Tampa Tribune. He’s also authored 10 books on fishing and boating. He’s a past president of the Florida Outdoor Writers’ Association. He now lives with his wife, Darla, near Alabama’s Lake Guntersville, but regularly visits Colorado in fall for trout fishing and the Florida flats in spring for a bit of everything else.

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