On Montgomery Lake, an oxbow of the Ocmulgee River near Helena, Perry threw out a wooden plug called the Creek Chub Wiggle Fish and reeled in 22 pounds and 4 ounces of fishing immortality.
Forty-eight years ago, King wrote part of his eulogy in Saunders' wooden boat deep in the Bimini mangroves, a winding swamp of thick bushes and trees where 100 species of fish and marine life fill the murky waters.