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Fishing Shep loved to fish

Put dozens of beer guzzling men in rowboats on Cedar Lake in Indiana in the early hours of the morning and you'll get a tangle of fishing lines, dirty jokes, yelling and screaming, and swatting of mosquitoes. Just the sort of thing that every mid-western kid wanted to do with his old man. Along with ham radio, fishing was a passion of Shep's from childhood. He often spoke of fishing for 'crappies' on the radio and incorporated the tales into his movies. Be it in New Jersey, Maine or Indiana, he would seem to always find time to go fishing. Later in life he retired to Florida where he could spend his time following that passion. On one shoe he gave his recipe for the ideal bait to catch channel catfish: Corn meal 1/2 box in boiling water. The day before get a pig or beef liver, about 1/2 lb . Put it on the porch, in the sun, 1 or 2 days. Cut it into little pieces. Put handfuls in the water to boil, before the cornmeal. Add cornmeal until it gets real thick. Before it gets hard, roll it into balls. Sink it to the bottom . Several times on TV he appeared on CBS TV's "Fishermans World" Where Shep Made Reference To This Subject: Time Date Category Title June 25, 1960 Radio Generation Gap and the Beats, Human Ant Hill, Dance Marathon, Fishing For Bullheads on Golf Course July 30, 1963 Radio Gertz and the 47 Crappies 1963 (Summer) Radio Fishing in Indiana June 20, 1964 Radio Summer Solstice - Rader in the Florida Swamps, Red Garter Dixieland Band / Summer Job, Toledo Mudhens Play-by-Play January 4, 1966 Radio Bullheads September 15, 1966 Radio State of Maine August 1972 Radio Fishing March 25, 1976 Radio Worms and Fishing, Muskie of Northern Lakes April 28, 1976 Radio Bass Fishing August 8, 1962 Radio Fear of Animals, Opossum January 7, 1966 Radio Fishing for Bullheads Links to Further Information: • Crappies • Fishermans World 1969 • Fishermans World 1970