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...every fly-fisherman's mind there exists a small repository of dates that mark the calendar. Each commemorates a day immutable as spring: the rise of larvae, or nymphs, from the bottom of certain streams and their emergence as May flies on the surface. But there is no date more important than the hatch of the fabled green drake on Henry's Fork. When the first of the insects is sighted on the Snake River, Henry's Fork and the whole town of Last Chance, as well as all the motels, gas stations, restaurants and tackleshops...
When the fish are hitting, boiling and slapping the surface for the green drakes, Lempke is just another fisherman. But when the action slows, and fish are harder to catch, he is a good fellow to know. Says Lempke: "I've met a lot of people, because if you're on that river and catching fish, and other people aren't catching fish, then you're going to meet people." As the locals like to say, "Bing just has plain good fish sense...
Mondale, an avid fisherman, went on an early-July trip with his family, seeking trout and pike on the Minnesota-Canada border while staying in a rustic cabin with no electricity, phone or running water. But he cut short the vacation at the end of last week to cast his lines before the women's political convention in San Antonio and the N.A.A.C.P. meeting in New Orleans. His political advisers have been trying to find central issues for his campaign; recently Mondale has been focusing on education, arguing that the nation's schools require a restoration...
...hospital bed. "I screamed to Helen to duck and grab the pillow because we're going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously injured, were snatched out of the water by a fisherman who had been asleep in his boat. "I heard all kinds of noises," said the rescuer, Billy Ebrech. "I heard screaming and yelling...
...subject here is the serious hat. Not the "fun" hat. Not the Greek fisherman's hat. The writer Roy Blount Jr. has correctly remarked that no man should ever wear a Greek fisherman's hat who is not 1) Greek and 2) a fisherman. In the same spirit, it is probably true that no man should wear a cowboy hat who is not 1) a cowboy or 2) President of the United States...