Marilyn Black displays a Bronzeback Friday "find" from Western Pennsylvania's Allegheny River. Photo by Darl Black.
I must give recognition to my Pennsylvania friends, Darl & Marilyn Black and Dale Black for their "Bronzeback Friday" tradition. While folks everywhere are battling one another in crowded shopping malls on the day after Thanksgiving, my friends look for fights with feisty smallmouth bass on the Allegheny River near Oil City. The river was muddier than they prefer this year and the bite was slow, but conditions don't get in the way of tradition, and they did manage to wrangle a few fish out of the river.
