To the Editor:

Readers who are familiar with “The Fish Story,” Jay Mann’s weekly column that has run 25 or 30 years straight in The SandPaper, know there are often curious tidbits of commentary on current events, on life experiences, and on keen observations of the natural world … or on human nature. To those of you who turn past the column because you have little or no interest in fishing, I highly recommend you reconsider.

I direct your attention to a fine example in his Aug. 7 column(“Ugly Fish Proliferates … And Attacks; Keep Rover in…

August 14, 2019