wateh's

Updated: June 25, 2025

"You have to dive for them, don't you?" The boatman shook his head. "Sometimes, if de wateh's mo' than fifty feet deep. Not of'en. See, Ah show you." He reached under the forward thwart and pulled out a light three-pronged hook and fitted it to a jointed pole, screwing the two sections together so that it made one long pole of about twenty-four feet in length.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries