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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
April 21, 2005
One spring morning in 1932, a poor Georgia farm boy named George Perry looked out the window and saw it was too wet to plow the fields. Instead of hooking up his faithful mule, he grabbed a fishing rod and tied on a lure called a Creek Chub Wiggle Fish. He was headed for a miserable day on the....