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21 Apr 2010

Texas: Fishing buddies praise “the fishing president”

They called him “the fishing president” back when George Herbert Walker Bush occupied the White House. An avid fisherman for more than 80 years, Bush angled for tarpon off Boca Raton, peacock bass in Brazil, albacore off Harper's Island, N.C., bone fish off the Florida Keys, among countless other fishing adventures throughout the world. Now that he's 85 and his days in the stream are behind him, several of the president's old fishing buddies decided to come to him Tuesday night. In a program at the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University, they helped him relive a few of their many fishing adventures. In brief remarks to an audience of about 500 ...

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