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Stories of three `classic' fishing trips through the Florida Keys.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20060626
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Byline: Alan Solomon

SLAMORADA, Fla. _ Fishing has been part of the Florida Keys experience since the only way to get here was to sail, paddle or be captured by brigands.

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Zane Grey wrote about it, and Ernest Hemingway wrote about it, and his granddaughter, Lorian Hemingway, wrote about it, and so has every American outdoors writer worth his creel and every travel writer sneaky enough to sell his boss on this boondoggle of an assignment.

They, talents all, waxed poetic.

There will be no poetry here. No desperate, noble creature ...

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