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When planting is over around early June, Erv will take a badly needed fishing trip up to Michigan. The rest of the summer will be spent cleaning barns and attending stock sales; winter will be devoted to classes and machinery repair. There will be regular Saturday night dances ("Lucille and...
When not dreaming of the Big Strike, bass fishermen are forever trying to hook their friends on Micropterus sal-moides, the wily and voracious largemouth bass. Such was the case when Correspondent Sam Iker, a self-certified "bass nut," lured Associate Editor Ray Kennedy to Dunnellon, Fla.. for a...
The shoebox under my arm contained a tangled reel, a 25? red-and-white bobber and a dozen rusty hooks -the remnants of a summer of bluegill fishing with the children. Anglin' Sam came armed for an amphibious invasion. As he checked out his gear with John Wilhelm Sr...
Comparisons to McCarthy, though, can be misleading. While sharing McCarthy's sincerity and distaste for demagoguery, the squarejawed, handsome McCloskey is more Kennedyesque in appeal. The father of four, he is a dedicated conservationist and at least once a year tries to head for Jackson Hole, Wyo., or the...
Somehow, between all the landfalls, mini-histories are fitted in-asides about mutinies and scholarly lectures on navigation, on fishing, on map making, on sea chanteys ("Heisa, heisa, vorsa, vorsa, wow, wow," to quote one). The sea turns Morison into a lyric poet who sometimes applies looser moral standards to...