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Holy mackerel! It's a shooting war!
Rick Telander
April 13, 1981
It's netter vs. sporting angler in the kingfish fracas off Key West. Both sides pack guns. The fish may be packing it in
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April 13, 1981

Holy Mackerel! It's A Shooting War!

It's netter vs. sporting angler in the kingfish fracas off Key West. Both sides pack guns. The fish may be packing it in

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Most of the roller rigs have already left Key West to follow the kingfish as they move north. But someone has mentioned to Dunlap that if the new law isn't passed the netters will be back next year, and they may make a point of looking him up then to settle the score.

With a shrug that intimates how far this thing has gone, Dunlap replies, "If I'd been afraid, it would have been years ago in World War II." Then, as an afterthought, he adds, "I'm armed."

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