Bill Youmans has stocked the ponds near his mother’s house in Columbia with fish for the past five years. Having returned from an internship as a fisheries manager in the Great Smoky Mountains, on the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, Youmans drops a line into one of the ponds to see which of the eight different kinds of fish have survived the winter.
Gone fishin' — for a career
Sunday, October 14, 2007 | 6:35 p.m. CDT;
updated 3:36 p.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008
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