On a mild Tuesday afternoon in late spring, Johnathan Malveaux and Shalonda Thompson tied six chicken legs onto strings and tossed each one into Clam Lake. Wearing bright red T-shirts and athletic shorts, the two friends had driven about 45 minutes from Beaumont to get to this body of shallow, brackish water surrounded by marsh grass at the McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge, less than a mile from the shoreline in far southeast Texas.Malveaux had chosen to spend his day off from his job at Walmart enjoying a favorite ritual. “Let’s see if I can catch a big one while you’re here,” he told me. In no time, some unseen creature was tugging at one of the strings underwater.Standing on a modest wooden platform—one of several…
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