Skye Pierce kept two poles in the water Saturday, Sept. 12, during Muskogee Breakfast Optimist Club’s fishing derby. “I just watch the poles and reel them in real fast,” the 7-year-old Hilldale ...

In 1964, Dennis Smitherman, the sports editor of the Mobile Press, wrote in a column, “Big game fishing was likely to develop into the newest industry along the Gulf Coast.” Smitherman admittedly wasn ...

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