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Word: icthyologist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Please Pass the Hardware. If a steelhead is an icthyologist's problem, it is also a fisherman's passion. Ordinary rainbows generally eat flies; the steelie -assuming it is in the mood-eats hardware: spoons, wobblers, plugs, strings of red beads, or just about anything else an imaginative fisherman happens to tie to his hook. It does not rise to the lure like a finicky rainbow, it attacks it enthusiastically-so hard that the pole may literally be torn from an unwary angler's grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: The Great Steel Rush | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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