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Fishing sanctuary: Local fisherman finds a dream catch at Toledo Bend in Texas

HUDSON (MCT) — Someone might as well pen the “gone fishing” sign right now for the day Bob Hermes retires. He’s hooked on the sport.

Though he fished as a boy, Hermes, 58, took up the rod and reel again a few years ago when he was thinking about ways to spend time after he no longer reports to Hermes Service and Sales in Bloomington. Friend and avid outdoorsman Francis Bell suggested he try it. Hermes was hooked.

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