DNA DON’T LIE: T’was a Beach Haven old-timer, Chris Sprague, who would jerk the chains of us kids by sniffing a pinch of bay water and authoritatively telling us what fish were around. Oh, we kinda knew he was joshin’ us one good. Still, what if, just maybe, he really could tell what fish were a-swim with just a sniff or two? So we’d rig for whatever he said he smelled.
Though Chris has since passed – at, what, 90-plus?- and took his sniffing secrets with him, something highly akin to his…
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