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"Time," wrote contemplative Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), "is but the stream I go a-fishing in." Recluse Thoreau (Walden, 1854), who lived for 26 months in a spare, do-it-yourself hut (cost: $28.12) in the serene wilderness of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, might have locked his creaky door...
Grand Chenier and Johnsons Bayou ("Those towns are nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging...
WROTE Alabama's Senator Black in Harper's in 1936, at the peak of his fame as a congressional investigator of utility lobbies: "An investigation is precisely what it purports to be-an investigation. Sometimes attempts are made to discredit it by calling it a fishing expedition. It...
Picture Windows. The trend to mass-appeal and family boating is nowhere more evident than in the design of big cabin cruisers. Of Chris-Craft's line of 68-odd stock models (up to 56 ft.), only 16 boats could be called utilitarian fishing craft-all the rest are...
Pigfish & Alley Cat. The very enthusiasm of the students was ample testimony to fishing's fast-growing popularity. But the faculty have facts and figures as well. Today some 30 million Americans fish the country's lakes, streams and seacoasts; last year they spent nearly $800 million for...