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After switching to a spinner bait--a silver spoon of sorts with a hook--I snagged a small fish of my own. Actually, it is possibly the smallest fish I have ever seen. At time of print, I am not certain as to whether the tiny whiting was actually hungry or was attempting to engage in fin-to-fin combat with its peer out of insecurity...
...fished until about 10:15 a.m. At about 10:10, the wheels fell off. Heeding a warning from an hour earlier about a shark in the area, the few wading fisherman, including my father, were trying to keep their stringers of fish out of the water. As I turned around to begin walking in toward shore, my father made his last few casts. Then, WHAP! A giant slapping sound and a lightning-like splash of water shattered our serene scene...
...selfish chomp with scalpel precision, the neighborhood shark had bitten off our one keeper trout from the gills down. Irritated, my father offered the rest of our tiny fish to our new portly friend, seeing as how our haul could no longer make a meal...
...need fish," I told myself. It would have been nice, but, shoot, we didn't even need rods and reels. The goal of our sports excursion had been accomplished. Even though I would sleep the entire way back with nothing in the ice chest, I knew that the trip was well worth it, and that my dad was even more worth my time...
...professor had just been down to Mississippi on a fishing trip with Sweet and was returning the favor. Ogletree, who usually fished for striped bass and had just mounted a 53-pound fish, landed a 75-pound yellow-fin tuna that...