The allure of fishing.(CHEMFUSION)(Column)

From: Canadian Chemical News | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Sport fishing is a mystery to me. I don't understand the appeal of sitting for hours on end, testing the intelligence of fish. But I have finally discovered the allure of fishing. It's in the lure. I would have never guessed that there are dozens of companies manufacturing thousands of varieties of lures with a combined gross intake of some $500 million dollars a year.

According to a perhaps apocryphal story, sometime around 1850, a Vermont fisher was lunching in his boat when he dropped his spoon overboard. As he watched it sink, he was stunned to see a fish bolt from the ...

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