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Mike Stevens

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Managing Editor, Western Outdoor News

San Diego

Sports, Travel

As seen in: Western Outdoor News, MeatEater, The MeatEater Podcast, Fish Taco Chronicles

Covers: Southern California saltwater, freshwater, Eastern Sierra, Colorado River, WON Tuna Jackpot (Cabo San Lucas), conservation as related to fishing and hunting. Outdoor gear reviews.

Doesn't Cover: The latest vegan trends.

Full-time 🎣 writer, Iceberg Theorist. Carrier of the Fire. Dodgers, Chiefs. Saltwater/Sierra Hybrid., Multi-Species Angler. "Honorary Mexican" since 1990.

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Muir's ghost on the Eastside

BY MIKE STEVENS ROCK CREEK LAKE - Everyone's heard the line, "he looked like he'd seen a ghost." When I s…

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Alleged poaching ring connected to Ventura grocery store BUSTED by DFW

BY MIKE STEVENS VENTURA - Six of seven suspects are in custody with the seventh being sought by authoriti…

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Freshwater - Bass angler shocked by big striper from San Diego lake

BY MIKE STEVENS LAKESIDE - A pair of anglers enjoying a pretty standard day teeing off on smaller clone l…

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Knee Deep - Surplus stores, I salute you

BY MIKE STEVENS The first Army surplus store I ever set foot in was somewhere in San Pedro in the mid-80s…

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Knee Deep column - Food chain guilt and armchair experts

BY MIKE STEVENS Whenever a mainstream media-generated headline featuring wildlife is posted on social med…

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Knee Deep - Big fish Options

BY MIKE STEVENS While the Big Fish Challenge accepts all standard fishing platforms from sport boat to pr…

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Knee Deep: Well that was embarrassing.

Advertisement BY MIKE STEVENS I'm going to go ahead and assume the statute of shame limitations has passed an…

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The Best All-Around Fishing Rod

In the movie Tin Cup, protagonist golf pro Roy McAvoy melts down on the course and breaks all his clubs excep…

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Knee Deep: Dixon Lake's peacock bass

BY MIKE STEVENS I should start off with the fact this took place in the mid '90s, but while you're here, …

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Knee Deep: Carry the fire

BY MIKE STEVENS We took a little heat a few years ago when a story in our dove preview included a tale of…

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Knee Deep: The Southern Cal ran through it

BY MIKE STEVENS Back in early April, I did a modest below-the-fold write-up about the storied vessel Sout…

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Hard Corps Outdoors: Camp Pendleton's hunting opportunities on a diverse landscape

BY MIKE STEVENS OCEANSIDE - The sign says "Camp Pendleton - Preserving California's Natural Resources." O…

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Knee Deep: Let go of the giant catfish story already

BY MIKE STEVENS "They say he's five hundred pounds of bottom-dwelling fury, don't you know. No one knows h…

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Saltwater fishing - SoCal Swordfish bagged on tiny custom boat

BY MIKE STEVENS SAN DIEGO - Anyone who may have seen a 14-foot boat motoring into San Diego Bay with a sw…

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WON On the Spot: Lee Vining Creek delivers quality late-summer rainbows

BY MIKE STEVENS LEE VINING - Normally, you won't find me in the Eastern Sierra after June - until October…

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ICAST show plugged with new gear for western anglers

BY MIKE STEVENS ORLANDO, Fla. - International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades (ICAST) show in Or…

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5 on 5: Five non-obvious Highway 395 pit stops

BY MIKE STEVENS There are already plenty of well-known Highway 395 stops that have been on every Eastern …

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Prioritizing inlet areas for late-season Eastern Sierra trout

From mid- to late-summer following a light winter, these areas are prime real estate BY MIKE STEVENS …

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Saltwater - Intrepid steams north, crushes albacore rather than cancel charter due to Kay

With a bigeye also bagged, SoCal species now on radar as the Intrepid heads home BY MIKE STEVENS FORT…

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Frequent passenger has Dana Wharf pegged

DANA POINT - Growing up in San Diego, I came up only fishing the sport boats based between Point Loma and Oce…

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Next-generation Fenwick Eagle and Pflueger President combines for an impressive trout combo

Modern versions of classic rods and reels still stand as overachievers BY LONE PINE - Looking back over w…

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Guadalupe Island shut down to shark tourism by Mexican government

BY MIKE STEVENS Decision devastates related businesses and leaves area vulnerable to poaching Guadalupe…

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Guadalupe Island shut down to shark tourism by Mexican government

BY MIKE STEVENS Decision devastates related businesses, leaves the area vulnerable to poaching, and it coul…

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Widely available fishing options that cost next to nothing

BY MIKE STEVENS SAN MARCOS - As a 16-year-old in 1993, I chalked up an angling accomplishment I've yet to…

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