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| My folks saved an article from The New York Times featuring Paul Hartman and the "Pounder" on Mille Lacs. Great article, fun to read! Anyone else catch this? |
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| Yeah there's a link to it in the news trawler (check the front page on the right). Great pic and article. |
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Location: Minnesota | i click on it in the Trawler and nothing happens? problem is probably on my end, any ideas? |
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| It didn't seem to me that the writer enjoyed his trip to Mille lacs. The lake wasn't pretty enough, the locals bring their kids to the bars to watch TV, he doesn't get the name of a golf resort spelled correctly. That's what 12 hours of muskie fishing can do to a person. They found the right person to show them the lake, but I wished the writer explained more about the sport itself,along with a lure aresonal with tactics and methods. I'm sure the article wasn't aimed at muskie fishermen but it sure didn't make other readers want to pick up a rod and go fishing
up there.
Duff Thury
http://supernaturalbigbaits.com |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I got exactly the opposite out of the article. It seemed to me to be a 'color piece' about a fishing trip for a type of fish most readers of the Times have never heard of. To describe the trip any other way than what actually happened would have taken off the edge for me, and not offered the true flavor of how nutz Muskie anglers really are. I always found Mille Lacs a mean spirited lake, and understood what he was saying; that lake is big and can be very cruel. Some find the Oceans petty, others are scared to death of them....sometimes pretty can be expressed evenly with feeling secure and safe.
The piece was very well written and told the story well, my opinion. |
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| http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/travel/escapes/27Muskie.html?... |
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| Yeah I understand where you're coming from, it's sometimes hard to read an article where your favorite sport on your favorite lake is reduced to five paragraphs by someone writing for people from Manhattan. It's a strange point of view. He did kind-of make the lake (one of the "gems" of Minnesota) sound like a big mudhole on the middle of a trailer park. You just have to remember what his point of reference is; the Finger Lakes or some Adirondack trout pond. |
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| I like how he plagerizes Doug Stange from In Fishermans Pike book..." With balefule eyes and underslung jaw, the Pike comes grimly to the feast..." |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I'll bet you a brand new penny he never has read anything Doug has written...  |
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