Word: catfishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even suitable to its original Spanish subject. With back-country U.S. Negroes, it goes about as well as pink champagne at a hoedown. On top of this, Oscar Hammerstein II dipped his big toe in the Mississippi mud and wrote some lyrics that should be thrown back to the catfish. Fortunately, he also supplied a book that is considerably better than the original libretto, with a shift of the plot to Jacksonville, Fla., and into high colloquial gear...
...Your entertaining and enlightening footnote on the sporting interests of our Presidents [Nov. 9] could do with a little amplification in the field of halieutics. George Washington's Diary records his frequent dealings with the perch and catfish of the Potomac River. Thomas Jefferson, accompanied by his Secretary of State and successor, James Madison, traveled 300 miles by coach to fish for trout in ... Lake George. Chester Arthur knew his way to the salmon pools of New Brunswick. Grover Cleveland, an authority on black bass, wrote one of the most delightful of angling books [Fishing and Hunting Sketches...
...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...