"Show me the slips"
Tony C.
kinda says it all
Frank is always gonna be Frank.
Love him, hate him, respect him, or an odd mix of all three.
Read his books, he gives tons of info.
Read between the lines, too, as "longhair"
Flap says.
He's also fairly honest, he even tells you who, (and why) caught most of the fish for $ in his day.
I know some people who had to catch fish, bass, fluke, blues or even dig clams,, to get gas money to cover the weekend expenses on the beach, back in the fifties and sixties. These were the people that Frank were out on the sand with.
They travelled in homemade jury rigged fishmobiles. The current generation comes down in state of the art stuff, and barely even fish, it's a whole different scene out there now, and the need for $ isn't there.