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...plugs into the cold water. Some Michigan devotees, in non-trout waters, were taking so-called "rough fish," e.g., carp and suckers, by an ancient method: lantern fishing with a bow & arrow. Chicagoans were dipping for smelt along the lakefront, and Mississippians were getting ready to "hand-grab" for catfish...
...serious fresh-water fishermen-and no one can be more deadly serious-will not be concentrating on anything as trivial as catfish or smelt as the season rolls along. Their chief targets will be trout, bass (large-& smallmouthed), muskellunge, perch, chain pickerel and northern pike (see color page...
...Fisherman Got Away. In Las Vegas, Nev., Colonel Alfred Lambert Jr. cast his fishing line into Lake Mead, pulled in a new, spun-glass fishing rod with a 2-lb. catfish on its hook...
...Sometime Thing, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', Bess, You Is My Woman Now, It Ain't Necessarily So-would be enough to explain it. But Porgy and Bess approaches authentic American opera: its very story is picturesquely American and unblushingly operatic. The crammed, violent life of Catfish Row inspired George Gershwin to something beyond show music, though it is still the show music, after some 20 years, that seems inspired...
Better not look IN the river, though. It will take all the enchantment out of the evening. Whitebellied decaying catfish line the bank, bloated and poisoned by the polluted waters. The waves from a passing motorboat slop over the slimy rocks along the bank into a brown froth. It isn't pleasant...