You still get crabs with sores, smaller ones. But just the look of the water, it was cleaner. It was healthier looking. It's supposed to be this clear green, so we're not quite back yet. But what they're doing seemed to be working.
Henries is young compared with the other men who take their boats out of South Creek every day.
But he's not a kid when it comes to fishing. He began going out with his father when he was barely a teen-ager. He crabs now because he loves it, from the sheer thrill of the catch to the soothing repetition of the work. Every morning he slips on his rubber overalls, his big black wading boots, his reddish-orange work gloves. He speeds his boat out over the calm water to the bobbing blue buoys that mark his pots.