The Press: Moon Up, Moon Down

John Alden Knight holds that there is "one nice thing about fishing—you can always put 'em back." He is not the kind of angler who takes the limit catch. But his splashingly successful four-month-old syndicated newspaper feature is helping fishermen in 35 states and three Canadian provinces hook more trout, bass and muskies than ever before.

Fisherman-Naturalist Knight, 56, a retired banker, lives in central Pennsylvania, and he knows a lot about fishing even in places he has never fished. When not busy casting in his favorite trout stream (which he calls "the River...