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History repeating

By Trey Reid
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

PRINCETON, Ill. — The clubhouse of the Princeton Game and Fish Club rises on stilts from the fertile bottomlands between the Illinois River and Bureau Creek. It's a well-appointed but unpretentious structure, standing guard over a row of more than three dozen neatly-spaced johnboats lining a small canal. Inside, there are signs of life at 5 a.m. A woman strides briskly toward the kitchen while two men in camouflage shirts paw at plates of fried eggs and pancakes on a long table. The in ...

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