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...lake lay under low gray clouds, emunctory thunder rolling in the distance and the water agitated to a nice "muskie chop," as the judge calls it - good fishing weather. The judge - Judge David H. Brind of Geneva, New York, my father-in-law - pointed the boat S-SW toward the point of Sheer Rock Island. This is the fortieth year that the judge has come to fish for muskies in Elephant Lake; he knows every weedbed and rock, and almost every muskie by name...
...muskie is the Boo Radley of American game fish, an elusive hulk in the shadows - a beautiful, green, striped but spooky fellow, big, fun to catch, and hard to find. Elephant Lake muskie, according to one fishing writer, are "aggressive and fearless." Trolling there is a Catch-22: 1) The muskie keeps mostly to the weeds; therefore 2) you must fish in the weeds to catch him, but 3) as soon as you enter the weeds, your hooks gather a harvest of vegetables; your lure stops dancing, stops appealing to a muskie as an item to gobble, and resembles, instead...
...center of the backpacker world is the Thai island of Koh Pha-Ngan. Evidence of the crushing weight of the 10,000 people who dance each full moon away lies a few yards offshore from the Hadrin Beach party zone. In contrast to the spectacular fish and coral found elsewhere, the waters are lifeless. The only color to be seen under the waves comes from the luminous green of a beer can or the white from a Styrofoam takeout box. Onshore, as the sun goes down, the beach could barely be more alive. Crowds of backpackers squeeze into seven beachfront...
...survival of sword-wielding pirates in island lairs has as much to do with custom as desperation. The captain sees his life as traditionally Sangir. "For us the sea is a huge source, for fish, but also for life," he says. "It's the way our people have always lived. My grandfather and great-grandfather before him, and my son, too." The pirate king half-heartedly claims he was forced into crime by poverty. But he admits to "throwing a lot around" on women and booze after a raid: "We never count our money, we just take...
...complex system of ropes and stone counterweights - into the water, hold it there for a minute, then haul it out by pulling the ropes like some ancient tug-of-war with the backwaters. The men win, but the prize is paltry: a few eels and some nondescript fish, no more than 15 kg in all. But the fishermen seem happy enough. They break for a smoke. I ask one of them, Maran, if he knows why the nets are called Chinese. "They came from China," Maran replies. Does he know when? "Long time ago, before my grandfather's time." Would...