Ed Zern, damn he was a funny man!

04 July 2011, 22:10

For those of us of an age, we remember him for the last pages of Field and Stream. I recently purchased "The Best of Ed Zern" to refresh my memory of him and he was a treasure. Sitting around a campfire with him or in the pub after fishing must have been interesting.

quote:
There is, among hard-core fisherman, a conviction that truth, like pure water and the fish that live in it, is a precious commodity, not to be squandered or over-used. I respect that conviction, and those who hold it. And if the philosphers ask, "What is truth?", I answer, "I haven't the foggiest notion, gents. But one thing it ain't is those stories you hear at Bud Lilly's or Phil Wright's or Dan Bailey's or any other tackle shop or fishing camp."

As for me, I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen, to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

Field and Stream, 1977

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05 July 2011, 22:05

p dog shooter

And let me tell you a bout the big one that did not getaway

06 July 2011, 09:32

prof242

When I was very young, I enjoyed the Ed Zern last page so much that I would leave it to the end when reading my Grandfather's magazines. Leave it to the last? Yes, like dessert to be savored and lingered over.