Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, across the U.S., fresh-water fishermen from barefoot boy to caravan-equipped sportsmen were polishing spinners, varnishing rods, tying flies, oiling reels, patching creels. Some 20 million strong, they were prepared to spend $1 billion on gear, gasoline, guides and other expenses this year in the U.S.'s No. 1 participant sport. Some were already catching fish...
From Salmon to Smelt. With ice out, landlocked salmon were striking ferociously in Maine. Down through New England and the North Atlantic seaboard, the trout seasons opened with a flush of high water and goodly bags of 15-inchers. Michigan fishermen were out by the thousands, dropping night crawlers, minnows and 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...
...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...
...Southeast, especially Alabama and Georgia. But bass bugs will also be bobbing happily in two huge, new man-made lakes, where careful conservation and fine feed-beds produce topflight fishing; Arizona-Nevada's Lake Mead and the Dale Hollow Reservoir shared by Kentucky and Tennessee. Wisconsin and Minnesota fishermen, with nearly 20,000 lakes to choose from, are itching for more battles with the monster muskies (record catch...
Attorney General Herbert Brownell last week announced the new Administration's first antitrust case. He got an indictment against the Gulf Coast Shrimpers' & Oystermen's Association, an organization of some 5,000 independent fishermen who last year caught $15 million worth of shrimp (and some oysters) in the Mississippi Sound for sale to packers at Biloxi, Pascagoula and Pass Christian, Miss. The Government charged that the association and its officers used "coercive practices" to fix prices, and "force and violence" to cut off supplies of shrimp to dealers who did not meet its terms. By these methods...