Why Travis Hunter Is the Biggest Fish (and Fisherman) in the Pond
“Let me help you,” Travis Hunter says, quietly but firmly. “Bring him right to me.” We were on a boat in a private lake west of Fort Worth, doing what Hunter loves to do more than anything but playing football. We had driven his Dodge Ram TRX Sandblast Edition pickup on a two-lane road until the houses disappeared, unlocked a gate and rolled down a gravel path that took us to Hunter’s happy place. Surrounded by brown prairie and brown cows, we had come to this brown body of water to catch largemouth bass.
And the action had just begun.
After feeling the tell-tale, tink-tink tug on my line, I had set the hook with a forceful yank of the rod. Adrenaline surged. The fish flashed his white belly before submerging again, confirming that it was a fat one. As I strained to get him to the boat, the Heisman Trophy winner and potential No. 1 NFL draft pick was every bit as excited as I was.
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