By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Boyertown, Pa. – James Shabrach Jr. spends a lot of nights fishing the spillway below Blue Marsh Lake in Berks County, but few of them end up like the night of Dec. 21. Shabrach, of Boyertown, had cast out a fire tiger-patterned Luhr Jensen Sugar Shad. It’s a lipless vibrating […]
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