The Young Man and the Lake: Before the Sun Rises, He Leaves His Bed, Drawn to the Quiet Rhythm of Rod and Reel
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By Jeri Krentz, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--Christian Wurtz steadies himself at the bow as his boat idles near a Lake Norman shore. There's a chill in the air; the gray sky looks smudged.   He chooses a spinning rod, already baited, and casts toward the riprap.
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By Ray Kershaw  It's early October but the midday sun is torrid. Beyond the scrubby hills the sea glitters like hot steel. Then suddenly, from a corner of our vision, we see him leaping through the dunes.
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A traditional rite of spring, setting the clocks forward, comes early this year.
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O ut here, on the Charles River at dawn, you can hear the city breathing. Sirens wail in the distance. Rush-hour traffic picks up and begins to hum. Cars and trucks rumble and roar. But John Yasaitis hears none of it. On his one-man scull, oars in hand, the 59-year-old rower hears only the sounds of his own making.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 21 -- On a recent cloudy day, Bill White, an upright man with a buzz cut, stared from a pier on Manhattan's West Side into the Hudson River. A crane and bucket dropped into the murky water and out again in rhythm: Collect mud, swing across, open clamshell, release. And again.
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In Michigan, the fishermanâs paradise all but surrounded by water, angling for a prized catch is about to become a lot more complicated.
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By SILVER WILKIE  OPEN your window at night with a light on and you're sure to attract one of the trout's favourite September snacks.
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The LED maker fulfills its promise.
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LOS ANGELES  - "December Boys" bathes in the summer sun and sea breezes even as it exudes the energy of youth and promise.
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On days like yesterday, gloomy, gray late afternoons by the lake, UCLA used to come out and play the part of the powder-blue preppies from Westwood.
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The first of the young men to hang himself loved to spend time outdoors hunting and fishing.
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By Lee Graves, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 16--John Crews wouldn't mind finishing his fishing tournament the way Stephen Carr was supposed to start his.   With hoopla befitting a hero.
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Aveiro is a surprisingly cosmopolitan fishing town on northern Portugalâs Rota da Luz, the Route of Light, where there is a young and vibrant energy in the streets and on the canals.
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Rollie Vonlinger looked sadly across Lake Cumberland at some of the fishing spots he has hit over the past 30 years. It is going to be hard to get to some of those spots from now on, because the boat ramp he normally uses no longer reaches the water.
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By Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 24--Steven Solomon doesn't want to move a mountain.   Just a submerged houseboat.   But the chore may prove to be more difficult than he'd previously thought.
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Kham Promnich has been sleepwalking for the past four days. Yesterday, in a trance-like state, he paced up and down the patch of land where his house once stood, as if tracing the perimeters of his shattered life.
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Sweetness and whimsy fill the screen to capacity in âIâm Reed Fish,â a rural coming-of-age tale thatâs so laid-back that its cast is almost horizontal.