Animals: Ocean Cicerone

Of all the men who have dragged their hooks in the sea for excitement rather than nourishment, slim, voluble Van Campen Heilner of Spring Lake Beach, N. J. is one of the most generous. With camera (still and motion) and typewriter he constantly shares his catches with less footloose lovers of fishing, and now he has compressed 25 years of expert sea angling experience within the covers of a 432-page book* in which he not only rhapsodizes about big ones caught and lost but gives an extremely tangible summary of his secrets for taking...

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