An ode to the bank fishermen among us

Here’s a salute to bank fishing and the countless anglers who engage in this universal method of our ancient tradition.
It is perhaps the oldest hook-and-line method, primitive nets and traps or natural “poisons” aside.
Bank fishermen have little or no access to boats, and some of them are just plain uncomfortable being on the water. But that makes them no less avid or capable as anglers than folks with $100,000 bass boats or walleye rigs.