had what they called Go-Devils, which were these flat-bottom skiffs that were probably the best poling boat there ever was. McGuane: The earliest guides like Harry Snow, Sr. Pero: What do you remember about those boats? I think Eddie Gediman must have built it. It was the same boat he had when I was living there in the 1960s. I have not seen him in years, but I did see his boat at the Sugarloaf Lodge about one year ago. Somebody ought to talk to him, because he probably has the deepest roots in flats fishing in America. He was never really in the fashionable inner circle-he was just a native Keys guide, you know-but he was a tremendous fisherman. His son, Harry Snow, Jr., was also a phenomenal guide. He was bonefishing and tarpon fishing before he had an outboard motor he rowed out to the fishing grounds. He went to the Florida Keys and helped build the Overseas Highway. was still guiding and he was almost blind. It was in its last gasp, but I was thrilled I got to see it. Thomas McGuane: When I was first down there in the late ’60s a certain amount of the world that had existed in the 1940s and ’50s was still going on. And you knew and spent time on the water with many of the old-time guides. As a young man you moved to Key West in the 1960s before there was a single full-time flats guide living there. Pero: You bring a unique perspective to the tarpon story. The writer during the early 1970s with one of the early flats boats, before poling platforms.
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