Cooped up too long
March 1, 2010
Why do it? Why camp out in freezing temperatures and then spend the morning trying to tie hair-thin line with numb fingers?
Charles Weathers knows. He started working as a ranger for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in 1968. He came to Roaring River a year later, and lived in a house where the lodge is now. He and his wife, Chloe, were waiting for breakfast at the lodge this morning. Charles retired in 1989, but he still comes around even if he wasn’t fishing. He has seen as many as 3,500 people along the banks of Roaring River on an Opening Day before.
“I guess they have been cooped up all winter and it’s chance to get out,” he said of the crowd.
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