Fishing: Fox of the Flats

Big-game fishermen naturally think big, and they tend to sneer at anything under 20 Ibs. But there is one little fish found in the world's warm waters that sends saltwater anglers into shivering ecstasy and rates up with the monster marlin and tuna. The name is bonefish (Albula vulpes, literally white fox). The biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once...

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