Word: angler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continue, at our present rate, to strip-mine the sea of its living resources, 25 years from now we'll be lucky to find a seafood menu that offers a rock sandwich with a side order of kelp. Consider the swordfish: angler's prize, gourmet's delight, fisherman's livelihood. In the mid-'60s, when I was in my mid-20s, I caught a swordfish off Long Island. I wasn't trying to; it took bait meant for sharks. The fish was weirdly, atypically lethargic. It didn't struggle much, didn't leap at all, just tugged for a while...
...rodlike controller that vibrates every time you get a bite. The best bits: underwater shots of your bait, and a kind of fishy artificial intelligence that determines whether the bass will fall for it. I found myself returning to Get Bass again and again--and I'm no angler...
Waist-deep in the fast-running Gunnison River, below the towering rock cliffs of Colorado's Black Canyon, angler John Duncan drifted a tiny brown imitation caddis fly on the filmy surface of the crystal-green water. Suddenly a form rose from below and took the hook. As Duncan played in his leaping, twisting catch, he could tell by its green back, silvery sides and blazing red stripe that he had hooked a rainbow trout. Then Duncan saw something else: a jet-black discoloration on the fish's tail and rear section. The trout was clearly diseased. "I was shocked...
...have helped spread the disease. More than 80% of the trout caught in Colorado come from hatcheries, and although many of the state's hatcheries are known to be infected, the Division of Wildlife continues to pour its fish into Colorado streams to help maintain what it calls the angler-satisfaction rate. Montana, however, does not stock its streams; authorities suspect the Madison may have become infested when some angler unwittingly dumped infected rainbows into it. The spores can also be carried from stream to stream by boats, outboard motors and even mud on the soles of wading boots...
...insistence on the noted French film scholar, linguist and angler Jean-Claude Robespierre that the tribe is "a collective manifestation of the Weltan-Schauung of the post-modern condition of the explosion of semiotic coherence' seems to be not so much an insightful, engaged comment as the deluded, syphilitic ravings of a irreparably damaged mind...