Local fishermen in addition to avid enthusiasts from the region historically fished near the now-infertile tributaries during the 1940s and 1950s.

Grant fished primarily the Big Hole River of southwest Montana, near his hometown of Butte.

But I fished this week - for the first time - in the Rangeley Lakes region in western Maine, near the New Hampshire border.

Soon the Wading God was seen again, fishing the seas near Moidel's Mount, forever discarding his catch and casting for a new one.

The native Innu hunted and fished near the mouth of the river that they called "Eddy River".

But the river has plenty of insect life, and we fished nymphs and caddis flies, always near the bottom.

When his health began to decline and his world began to shrink, he fished near his home for black bass, grouper and pike.

"There's a ton of fish here and a lot of big ones," said John Heine of Northford, Conn., as he fished near Mr. Marois.

The Germans fished near Iceland's coast, and the Hanseatic League engaged in commerce with the Icelanders.

His first boat sank, but he fished it out of the Susquehanna River, near his home, and made it into a home for snakes.