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Out There: Floating for squirrels

By Keith "Catfish" Sutton
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

There he was, big as life, running down the riverbank like a rufous-coated mink. Then, as suddenly as he appeared, he was gone. "Where'd he go?" Gregg Patterson whispered. "I'm not sure," I responded, "but he's bound to show himself sooner or later. There aren't many places he can hide." The trees edging the river were sparse — a big elm, some small oaks, a thin band of locusts. The subject of our abbreviated discussion, a big fox squirrel, had exited the scene via a tangle of vines and ...

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