MSM Fishing Reference Mistakes…

2008 July 24
by Pete McDonald

From this week’s Sports Illustrated, in an article titled “The Evert Effect” wondering whether Chris Evert boosts the performances of her husbands, comes the following blurb:

“Andy Mill. When Evert married the former Olympic skier in 1988, he had been retired for seven years. But the Evert magic couldn’t be denied. Mill took up deep-sea fishing and before long became known as the world’s best tarpon fisherman.”

He took up saltwater fly fishing. Deep sea fishing is, well, something altogether different than casting flies to tarpon. Thank you for allowing me to get caught up in semantical minutiae that no one else really cares about.

2 Responses leave one →
  1. 2008 July 24
    Capt Gordon permalink

    To most newspaper and (sorry) magazine types, any time a person drops a line in salt water anywhere it is “deep sea fishing” because that is what it says when you walk down to the docks in Cape Cod or wherever. Idiota.

  2. 2008 July 24

    Media people don’t know what they’re talking about? Impossible…

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