FROM MINNESOTA FISHING REPORT


Abstact photo by Diane Rosenblum Althoff. Looks like a fishing lure.

 

1952

Nisswa-Brainerd: The Whitefish Chain is producing walleyes in 22-25 feet on redtails and night crawlers. Bass are being caught in North Long and Gull in 8-17 feet on Texas rigs
or jig 'n pig.

She didn't know about jig 'n pig because it wasn't part of her fishing lore or history but she could imagine it — a luminescent, many-barbed horror baited with bits of pork rind, but she fished for blue-mottled bass with leeches and a j-shaped size #4 hook out near the sandbar on Potato Lake, the place her Grandpa Jack had named Easy Street, and she'd just sit and sit there, a skinny girl in an anchored rowboat with a whippy pole, a big net, a bottle of pop, and a copy of Anna Karenina.



MINNESOTA FISHING REPORT, Susan Terris
(Small Poetry Press, 2000)

Photo: © Diane Rosenblum Althoff


 

MINNESOTA FISHING REPORT is a 4.25" by 5.5" paper back book with one long poem. The poem focuses on a half-century of fishing in the same area of north central Minnesota. Above you'll find the beginning section of the work.   –S.T.