Stabs in the dark

I had a long conversation with Colin Kearns who is Senior Deputy Editor of the magazine Field & Stream. We started out the conversation discussing how is, literally, research team contacts all kinds of agencies to find out about the deer population for each coming season and then I noticed in the magazine itself something else. Another title in the issue is "Stabs in the dark". Want to comment on that? Yes. This is a story that takes place in the Ozarks in Missouri and it's a local tradition that a small group of outdoorsmen have. Each fall they will go gigging for various species of suckers in streams throughout the Ozarks. These are guys who have been doing this a long time. They make their own gigs out of various metals that have very long shafts. They go out at night and shoot a light off the bow of the boat so they can see the fish and they stab their gigs in the water and if they are lucky they get fish. They keep the patient have a big bonfire party where they fry the fish along the river. Very interesting story that sounds like a lot of fun."