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Family, friends say goodbye to their fishing chum

By Keith "Catfish" Sutton
Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Pete Hodge from Puriton, Great Britain, loved catching fish in Somerset's River Huntspill, and when he learned he had a terminal illness in 2006, he continued fishing there right till the end. Hodge, age 61, died peacefully in his sleep this summer and was cremated in a coffin made from wicker to look like a fishing creel. Hodge decided that after his death he wanted to help his fellow anglers continue to enjoy tight lines, too — so much so he arranged for his friend Justin Hooper, who ru ...

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