Fortunately;
Bill Poyneer's rainbow trout was
a trophy-size fish. Otherwise, his unpleasant experience on Mexican Hay Lake
would have remained just that.
The balmy
summer morning was clear when Poyneer paddled his canoe to the center of the
lake, one of many sprinkled across the Indian reservations of Arizona's White
Mountains. He carried a fly rod, a tackle box, and a 12-gauge [...]
"One more for good luck!" Dave Romeo shouted
to the crowd lining the shores of Kahler's Pond, Long Island, New York. It
was the afternoon of October 28, 1984,
the last day of fishing season. Romeo, who had already caught 3,000 largemouth
bass that season, flipped up the tip of his fishing rod and set the hook on [...]
