{"id":48533,"date":"2018-12-28T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpms.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/?p=48533"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:35:13","slug":"inside-the-mind-of-a-world-champion-musky-angler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/inside-the-mind-of-a-world-champion-musky-angler\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the mind of a world champion Musky Angler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE ST. CLAIR, Mich. \u2014 If Spencer Berman was a vintner, he would be looking out across those neat rows of grapevines now, raising a brilliant merlot and remarking that this has been an exceptionally good year. If he were a stock investor, a quick scan through the latest earnings report would tell him that it was a very profitable year.<\/p>\n<p>But Berman is a muskie fisherman, so in a razor-edge kind of cold on an winter-like day here recently, he was muskie fishing in the snow. The case has been made more than once that the purebred, hardcore, maniacal muskie fishermen might be a couple of pins short of a full frame, and that would get no argument from Berman.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/sports\/outdoors\/2018\/12\/13\/muskie-fish-world-championship-quite-catch-sylvania-spencer-berman\/stories\/20181214009\">Inside the mind of a world champion muskie (fisherman)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48534 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/markey10p-6-600x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/markey10p-6-600x419.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/markey10p-6-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/markey10p-6-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/markey10p-6-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2018\/12\/VuwoGW1m-markey10p-6.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE ST. CLAIR, Mich. \u2014 If Spencer Berman was a vintner, he would be looking out across those neat rows of grapevines now, raising a brilliant merlot and remarking that this has been an exceptionally good year. If he were a stock investor, a quick scan through the latest earnings report would tell him that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":48534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48535,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48533\/revisions\/48535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/muskie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}