Word: tarpon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week. Not since the first delirious, mistaken weeks after V-J day had there been so much expectancy-with caution, this time-for peace. The fishing was good too. In the gulf, off the coast of Louisiana, speckled trout were swarming in the bays and bayous, and tarpon appeared a full month earlier than usual. Said Bill Tugman, editor of the weekly Reedsport (Ore.) Port Umpqua Courier: "The salmon are running and the trout and striped bass, and they even say the shad feel like taking a fly this year. So let Moscow do its worst." The Last Sardine. This...
...plush playground, Wenner-Gren in 1951 picked flat Andros, biggest (104 miles long) of the Bahama Islands. Andros has not prospered much since pirate times; the population, mostly Negro, is still under 10,000. But it has splendid white beaches, a sunny, breeze-cooled climate and enough bonefish, wahoo, tarpon, blue teal, ducks and wild pigs to win rave notices from rod-and-gun editors. Spending $2,000,000, Wenner-Gren built a luxurious Lighthouse Club (with appointments in silver) and a well-fitted yacht club. The resort opened last month...
Bethke next took a job as advertising manager for a small paper in Tarpon Springs, Fla. When the Florida boom broke in 1926, he headed for New York with $50 in his pocket, got a linotyper's job on the New York Times the next day. For a year he saved money by living rent-free on the third floor of a Greenwich Village house occupied by a group of unemployed actors and an organization dedicated to the preservation of American Indians. In lieu of rent, Bethke played the piano for the society's weekly meetings...
Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef (20th Century-Fox) can possibly be explained as an attempt to present the Iliad in modern dress-dungarees, that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West. After newsreeling through a sponge auction and a Greek Orthodox Epiphany, including the inevitable shot of Greek youths diving for a gold cross, the picture at last shows a little fight...
...into such specialized fishing byways as fly tying (there are "more than 30,000 recognized fly patterns"), the "Solunar Theory" of fishing, "How to Fillet a Fish," how to prepare a fish for mounting, and the "comparatively new" use of artificial lures in going after such saltwater leviathans as tarpon, barracuda and dolphin...