Mark Twain wrote well of the blessings Ol' Miss bestows on her boatmen. Yet he knew nothing of what is today the big river's most exciting inhabitant: Micropterus dolomieu, the smallmouth bass. Launch a canoe just south of Brainerd or dump a jon boat into the river near Monticello, where a day's fishing might yield a month's worth of tail-walking action.
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Family members and a lawyer say they have been blocked from access to the bedside of Bonfilia Sanchez Dominguez, while her husband was detained and shipped to Texas within 24 hours.
