Night Fishing with the Senator Partisan views come together over catfish, and The Old Man and the Sea is revealed as more than just literature. Janisse Ray A ny place is deep and far away, but none farther than the wild country of the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain where the Altamaha cleaves into four rivers, each voluminous, startling in its capacity, emptying from the continent a third of Georgia's water. At the mouth, the Altamaha's flood plain is over five miles wide. Here eagles construct their haphazard aeries. There is a fish to match the spirit of a water body, and to rival the Altamaha delta a fish must be tigerish and fierce and untended.
Big things live in big water.
Here are the catfish. I am night fishing with my state senator, who is Republican. I am Democrat if anything, and our history has not been placid. We have more than once entered the arena of political debate with crests cocked and spurs distended, and have flown at each other. This law or that.