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Gas money

Saturday's final weigh-in of the Wal-Mart FLW Tour championship had plenty of interesting moments. One came when major sponsor British Petroleum (BP) presented each of the 12 finalists with a $1,000 check. While the BP executive helped hand the fishermen their oversized checks, the FLW Outdoors executive with the mic said something along the lines of, "With today's high gas prices, this is going to really help you guys out." I don't think that was scripted.

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Mark Taylor holding a fish.

While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.

Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.

After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.

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