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Fishing barefoot

Fishing barefoot

New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball’s cartoon strip Footrot Flats often featured flounder fishing. Cooch the farmer, with his dog Jess, demonstrates his technique of catching the fish with bare feet.

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Diogenes Designs Ltd
Reference: Murray Ball, Footrot Flats: gallery 1. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 2005, p. 35
Cartoon by Murray Ball

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Carl Walrond. 'Recreational sea fishing', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 3-Dec-09
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