JACK D'AMBROSI: Hooking the Big One
"Fishing, fishing, fishing."
That was what Karen D'Ambrosi said her husband, Jack,
liked to do most when he wasn't at work, or helping out
at church, or coaching one of his two daughters in soccer
or basketball. Luckily, he had a friend with a lake on
his property a few miles away from the couple's Woodcliff
Lake, N.J., home, so almost every weekend, from April to
October, he would cast a line. His best catch came this
past summer, a beautiful 32- pound striped bass. ("Or was
it 32 inches?" Karen wondered. "I don't know. It was
big.") She even has a picture of him with it.
"He would come back from fishing trips loaded with
bags and bags of fish and fish fillets," she remembered,
laughing, "And he would just give it away, up and down
our street. So everywhere we'd go, all over town, there
would be people thanking him for the fish, you know,
saying, `We just had a barbecue, Jack, it was
great.'"
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