The Pink House

REDFISH.Ina still and shallow surf he fishes sandbar white and shell pink redfish in much the same manner he would fish bonefish in other waters.<p>STRIPED BASS.he is telling about the rumor of a spotter plane out of the Chesapeake reporting a thirty-seven mile long school of large striped bass coming down along the coast of Virginia.<p>BLUEFISH.the boys are running along a summer afternoon's surf chasing flighty schools of small blues scattering bait beneath the terns.<p>BONEFISH.they mount the edge of the sill in cautious sallies keeping their shadows close beneath them; briefly on quickly off.<p>POMPANO.there were shoals of pompano turning in the evening surf like polychromatic discs returning the last violet rays of the sinking sun.<p>TUNA.and he told of his years with the charter boat fleet hunting the giant tuna the giant tuna that were no more.<p>GROUPER.they fished tarred hand lines without leaders and sunk with sash weights the hooks baited with orange chunks of conch.