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Posted by StriperChaser on March 21, 2005, 9:30 pm by Bob Hodge, Knoxville News Sentinel posted March 21, 2005 Republished courtesy of Bob Hodge and the Knoxville News Sentinel Between early February and late May the last place to look for Mike Chase is the headquarters of his restaurant business. You'll have better luck finding him on his boat somewhere between Melton Hill Dam and Kingston Steam Plant. Chase is a restaurateur who owns Knoxville's Copper Cellar, Chesapeake's and Calhoun's. He is also a hardcore striper fisherman. Now he's Gov. Phil Bredesen's pick to replace George Akans on Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission. "When you're out fishing you're out there talking and usually not about business," Chase said. "You talk about everything. I think the camaraderie of fishing is 99 percent of it and catching a fish is a bonus." There have been plenty of bonus days for Chase. On the wall of his office is a 40-plus-pound striper that was, at the time, the biggest he had caught. A practitioner of catch-and-release, he has since let stripers go that have weighed in excess of 50 pounds. But these days, he says it's almost as big a challenge to catch bait - he uses live shad - as it is to catch a striped bass. Over the past three years, Chase has noticed baitfish are not as numerous in many areas as they once were and as their patterns have changed so have those of the stripers.
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