From a pioneer in catch-and-release and a legend in saltwater wade-fishing. Rudy Grigar, one of America’s most notorious characters of saltwater wade-fishing, lends the inimitable voice of experience to these yester yarns of the coastal waters of Texas and Louisiana. A fisherman’s fisherman, Grigar claimed to have caught more than a million pounds of fish in his sixty years along the coast. Yet fervent and abiding concern for those waters spurred his commitment to a catch-and-release policy for all fish under three pounds and to Gulf Coast conservation. His tales and tips are the bible of those now wading the Plugger’s favorite spots. In the years I fished with Rudy, the fifties and sixties, the man was utterly solar powered, seeming to draw enough energy from the sun to fish all day and all night ... without a doubt, one of the most effective saltwater plug fisherman I have ever seen, innovative as well as determined--he just never quit.