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Stray Cast: Manning, perch, Montrose

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.

After all, this Web log is named for the Stray Cast, which has snapped off the end of the outdoors column in the Sun-Times on Wednesdays since April 2, 2003.

Here’s today’s:

Peyton Manning is like the guy catching perch on every cast at Montrose, yet he chats with you and you don’t feel like a putz.


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