Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.

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He is unlikely to wait that long before finding other fish to swallow.

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The primitive fish mouth straining for water and finding it as my son releases it in the shallows.

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Mr. Crumpton and his Montevallo teammate had little luck at the old spot and had trouble finding another "honey hole, " or spot with lots of fish.

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Scientists are finding life that can resist the colossal pressures, from deep-sea fish to shrimp-like scavengers called amphipods, some of which can reach 30cm (1ft) long.

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We sat up and dropped our lures into the water, quickly finding out that keeping one's surfboard steady in a 10-foot swell while trying to fish a reef makes for a clumsy operation.

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