When I was an undergraduate at VCU, I would skip class and go bow fishing there in the James River. Lots of carp and huge amour plated gar. There was a Black family that I encountered at “my spot” frequently. They offered me $.50 for each carp (most over 5lbs., and some monsters). I could not accept the money (although I could have used it for art supplies), but I’ll never forget how happy they were to get those big carp.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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