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Herring Hearsay
In what should be America’s most important river-herring refuge, superstition suppresses these imperiled fish.
Fly Rod & Reel July/Oct. 2008
“Nope. It has to do with the Russians. The goddamned fools in Washington, D.C. let ’em clean everything out. Thirty years ago I’d go out a hundred feet and, fishing a hand line, I could fill the boat up to the gunnels with haddock. We’d knock all the codfish off the hook. We didn’t want the codfish. We used to have stripers come up the river. We used to have a striped-bass tournament in Calais!”
“Do you think that maybe the stripers followed the alewives upriver like they do everywhere else?” I inquired.
“No. They left because of the Russians.”
Recalling that my roll as an educator should not begin until I start punching my keyboard, I thanked him for his time and told him to have a great day.
Ted Williams’s latest collection of essays, Something’s Fishy, is available at the Fly-Fisher's Bookshelf.
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