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As the author and angler Frank Woolner once wrote: “The first striped bass of a fresh new season is a mightily important fish.”

Larry Maderia and Joe Manette caught up with the writer beside a tidal river they fished together more than 50 years ago.

Although he took his life 60 years ago, Ernest Hemingway refuses to disappear. His spare, lean prose and a new documentary on PBS have put him back in the conversation.

I grew up in a tribe of Swamp Yankees and, without realizing it, came to embody some of their ways and salty language, outlooks, perspectives and mannerisms.

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Catching stripers in the November surf when the world seemed simpler.