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...fishing lure held up a Cabinet meeting in the White House last week. Just after the pre-meeting prayer, Vice President Nixon broke in to say that the day was an important anniversary: one year before, the Republican National Convention in Chicago had nominated for President "the best fisherman for votes the country has ever had." As Nixon finished his brief speech. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty and Presidential Assistant C. D. Jackson set before the President an anniversary gift from the Cabinet and the White House staff: two dozen assorted fishing lures mounted on velvet. A bass lure with...
...score miles from its source in the snows of Colorado, the Arkansas River becomes a bruising stream, sweeping along at 8 to 10 m.p.h., and churning into turbulent white water where great rocks challenge its course. The river is a trout fisherman's paradise and a boatman's purgatory. In early June, two Germans arrived at its banks, not to fish but to scout the Arkansas for what is widely regarded as the world's longest, roughest riverboat race...
...sale in U.S. bookstores this week is a masterfully written treatise by an experienced fisherman that is likely to be read for a long time. The author believes in using both wet and dry flies-and worms...
...many a well-read fisherman will recognize, the author is the learned Englishman, Izaak Walton, who grew tired of the life of an ironmonger, retired to the country and took up the contemplative pursuits of literature and fishing. His book, The Compleat Angler, originally published just 300 years ago, was republished this month, following at least 200 other editions, by the Stackpole Co. of Harrisburg, Pa., a city that had not been thought of when Author Walton (1593-1683) wrote his bestseller...
After that, peacetime Washington and nearby Maryland promised to be a fisherman's dream. Captain Thomas D. Smith Jr., another enthusiast, was also stationed at the institute. "Everyone we met told us that fishing was fine in Maryland," says Rathbun. The trouble was that Rathbun and Smith could find no fish. "Go to Queen Anne's Bridge," said the experts. "or try 'The Gooses.'" For a long time the two men couldn't even find the recommended fishing holes...