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NORTHERN TREATS PART OF TRIP

By Flip Putthoff

Posted: October 18, 2012 at 5:11 a.m.

Trees cloaked in fall color greet a trio of paddlers on a two-day Kings River float trip. Matt Hughes, left, of Lone Jack, Mo., left, and his brother, Mark Hughes, alias “Hog Ears” Hughes, of Alaska, drifted down the Kings on Sunday and Monday to fish for smallmouth bass and enjoy a night of gravel-bar camping.

By Flip Putthoff
Trees cloaked in fall color greet a trio of paddlers on a two-day Kings River float trip. Matt Hughes, left, of Lone Jack, Mo., left, and his brother, Mark Hughes, alias “Hog Ears” Hughes, of Alaska, drifted down the Kings on Sunday and Monday to fish for smallmouth bass and enjoy a night of gravel-bar camping.

We’re catching fish after hard-fighting fish.

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October is prime time for a floating and camping trip on the Kings River. A trio of paddlers enjoyed a two-day float of the Kings on Sunday ...

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