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Carp diem

The two Old Friends (I am told) were sitting at breakfast. Old Friend No. 1 recalled the summer nights of her youth when she would join her beau on the banks of Lake Springfield, there to mix Wheaties and water and garlic salt into a dough that was affixed to a treble hook and cast […]

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Attack of the flying fish

Jumping several feet into the air, a single silver carp can knock a boat driver unconscious before a passenger even has time to say “Duck!” For that reason, the Illinois Natural History Survey station in Havana installed netting around the steering wheel and dashboard of its electro-fishing boats. “It’s simply one of the most dangerous […]

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