If you’ve mastered the Eskimo Roll, that will come in handy if you’re fishing for seals. If you’re not working with a harpoon, and have strapped eighty pounds of tackle boxes, beer coolers and a patio umbrella to the deck of your river kayak, don’t expect the Eskimo Roll to save your ass from disaster.
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From the shoreline I often feel like I’m fishing exactly backwards, pulling in lures that should be jumping off the bank and heading for deeper water. From a boat, presentation seems more natural. For some of us, boats are too much expense or too much trouble, but we want them anyway.
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Considering that the souvenirs I acquired from him included a WWII bayonet, an engineer’s set of mapping and survey instruments, a radiation detector and a complete set of government-issue surgical instruments labeled “Venereal Disease Kit,” — all of these things having apparently seen a lot of hard use — it seems he might have been involved in something more than the Missouri mule export-import business.
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