I would choose my Great Uncle, Warren Brown. He passed in '94 just shy of his 100th birthday. Uncle Warren spent his entire life on Sherman's bay, lake Chautauqua. I loved his stories of fishing on the lake in the old days, before outboard motors came into use. They used wooden boats with two sets of oars to troll spoons mostly (what we would call a bucktail spinner today). They also used june bug spinners ahead of live chubs, perch or suckers. The old timers had a technique called skittering that they did with long bamboo rods (no reel) to sweep a live sucker back and forth over the weeds. The sucker would be hooked through the mouth and out one eye so it was at an angle to impart action. Some of these rods had a large cork float about the size of a volley ball just ahead of the butt. When a muskie hit and the hook was set the rod was thrown in and the anglers rowed along following it until the fish tired. Catch and release didn't exist then, they ate every muskie they caught.