It's two days before the start of trout season. There's an air of anticipation at Jackson Sporting Goods, on South New Prospect Road.
People get their worms and everything else.
On this particular day, the couple is sorting through newly arrived boxes of fishing, hunting and paint-ball supplies. On the front counter, containers of meal worms are awaiting purchase. The Beerses bought the store in January 1994 from the Kokin family, who began serving area sportsmen in 1964 when Jackson was perhaps the Shore's most rural outpost. There was one traffic light in Jackson, out by Cassville. The store has changed, too.