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 The croaker's done gone from the hook 
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-- damn!
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 My language sure goes to pot down here on the coast.
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 The husky blond guide with the Aggie cap twists his face in mock fury.
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 I got to get back to school 
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and straighten out my English.
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 He has two more years at Texas A&M.
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 Right now he takes people out to fish in the bays behind the barrier islands 
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that curve for hundreds of miles along the eastern coast of Texas,
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 enclosing milky green lagoons behind ridges of sand and grassy scrub 
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that rim the deep blue of the Gulf beyond.
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 There have been three days of hot, wind-swept rain, 
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and now with the first sun we are after speckled seatrout,
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 which with redfish provides most of the game fishing hereabouts. 
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The little radio fizzes 
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as other boats want to see 
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if we have found any fish 
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-- spotting location is everything in this sport.
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 Negative answers crackle back. 
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 The fish often are plentiful around the pilings of the old gas wells 
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that dot the flat surface like the remains of sunken ships.
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 We go from one to the other.
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 The sun is hot now 
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though it's only 8 in the morning.
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 The great silver clouds on the horizon build themselves on the pale water.
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 We cruise toward another set of pilings.
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 The guide scoops into a pail 
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and puts a frantically wiggling croaker on the hook.
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 Then he casts out.
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 Just wait for that tap-tap, that thump-thump.
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 It comes real gentle 
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before it pulls.
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 Don't forget, 
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trout have very soft mouths. 
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 The radio queries again.
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 Pickin' one or two, 
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says the guide, chuckling.
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 You can tell 
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they've got nothin'.
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 A pair of black skimmers zig-zag past close to the surface.
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 Soon we have our limit of the shimmering fish 
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stippled in rose-gold and black.
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 And we are the first back at the dock, 
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where the great blue herons stand 
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waiting by the cleaning benches. 
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The guide is young 
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and he knows this business 
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but he wants a different life after college, such as working for IBM and wearing a necktie.
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 This must be the last big stretch of the American seacoast
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 that is undeveloped.
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 There are a few ramshackle fishing towns with quiet atolls of resort houses nearby.
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 People are not apt to be self-conscious about the place or themselves.
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 Texas is big and beautiful 
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and they live here, 
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that's all.
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 Jutting out just to the north of us is the Blackjack Peninsula 
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(after the oak, not the game) 
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which forms the core of the Aransas Wildlife Refuge. 
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It is famous as the winter home of the whooping crane, that symbol of the destruction of wild America.
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 Last year a gunner shot a whooper by mistake 
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thinking 
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that it was a snow goose.
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 He paid an immense fine 
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and was lucky, 
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according to a local wag,
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 to escape the gas chamber.
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 The peninsula comes off the vast southeastern alluvial plain with fields of rice and cotton and sorghum as far 
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as the eye can see. 
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Near the coast there are dense coverts of live oak 
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interspersed with marshes and prairies.
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 Deer, wild hog, armadillos and alligators are the glamour quadrupeds 
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and the birds are innumerable, especially the herons and the spoonbills.
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 Above the blossoms of lantana and scarlet pea the inky-brown and golden palamedes butterfly floats on its lazy wingbeat.
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 Inland a few miles from the refuge there is a place 
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called Tivoli, 
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with a white church, a gas station and a grocery, the houses relatively close together for such a settlement in these parts.
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 Tivoli Motel, I read a sign in the usual pronunciation of the name 
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as we whoosh through.
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 Here in south Texas we say Tie-vole-ee, 
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my host gently corrects.
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 Mr. King is the director of the Foreign Press Center in New York.
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