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The old man and the sand

By Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Anderson / Sgt. Julius Morgan
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, June 30, 2008

Editor's note: Part of the fun of publishing ESPNOutdoors.com is receiving photos of trophy fish from readers. Rarely, though, do we see images like those recently forwarded to us by a former ESPNOutdoors.com editor, Julius Morgan, who's on active duty in Iraq. They showed an exotic, person-length fish pulled from an unidentified desert pond. We asked the soldier who caught the beast — Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Anderson — to describe what happened. He graciously obliged, and though he c ...

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