Actually, on that first fishing trip, the bridge hadn't been completely
built yet. There were men in these huge cranes far atop the bridge posts,
and my father told me they made a lot of money. I remember thinking that
you couldn't pay me enough money to go up that high.
----- Original Message -----
From: <EELReprah_at_aol.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- ling?
> In a message dated 3/12/02 7:11:48 AM, bockhouse_at_earthlink.net writes:
>
> << When I was a kid, my father took me out on a fishing boat from Hoboken,
>
> under the Verazzano Bridge and to the ocean. >>
>
> When I was a kid there was no Verazzano bridge and we caught ling in
February
> off the docks on Staten Island. They are a member of the cod family (Genus
> Molva, family Gadidae.) and different from Cobia (Family Rachycentridae,
> COBIA Rachycentron canadum).
>
> Lee Harper
>
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