In a July 20 press release, Barry Tucker, the Foundation’s long-time president and brother of David, and Jeffrey Manocherian, the board’s current chair, announced that “The Richard Tucker Music Foundation condemns the hurtful and offensive comments made by one of our Board members, David Tucker, … has been removed from the Richard Tucker Foundation Board of Directors, effective immediately. David’s opinions do not align with the beliefs and mission of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, a Foundation built on the legacy of a Jewish-American singer who sought to bridge religious and cultural differences.”Īs the biographer of Richard Tucker, I am in a position to speak knowledgeably about the life, career, and personal values of “The American Caruso,” as Tucker was dubbed in the press during his three decades as one of the Metropolitan Opera Company’s most famous and durable tenors. I am also in a position to speak personally about David Tucker, whom I have known since 1981 when I was awarded a contract by the EP Dutton Company to write a book about Richard Tucker, to which Luciano Pavarotti wrote the foreword. To understand the origins of the foundation bearing his name, it’s necessary to know who Richard Tucker was. Dusty McGehee from Downsville and John Harrison from Jonesboro landed the Slab of the tourney - a 2.28 pounder.įor decades, summer crappie fishing on the Ouachita pretty much flew under the radar.He had made his Metropolitan debut in the demanding role of Enzo in La Gioconda on January 25, 1945, and had been a primo tenore (or “star tenor”) from the start. And the ones that did trolled around the shallow backwater lakes with a long pole and a lone jig. Or they fished a jig in the thick tops along the river.īut speaking of radar - the new electronics available to crappie fishermen today have opened up a whole new world of possibility. Who would have ever thought that here, in the late-middle of July, it would take 14 crappie weighing 27 pounds to win a tournament? That honor went to local anglers Jason Thomas and Shannon Porter. A lot of other anglers from here did well, too. Heath Rogers and Lance Bilberry finished fifth with 23.35 pounds Dusty McGehee and John Harrison finished eight with 22.48 Terry Richard and Kent Williams finished 17th with 19.78 and Neal Pace and Chad Callender were 28th with 16.76. įishermen can now virtually “see” underwater and not only find schools of fish, but pinpoint the bigger ones. Sometimes like this weekend when they get a lot of pressure, the fish become ultra spooky and anglers have to cast lures like Road Runners past the fish and retrieve them slowly back to the fish to catch them. We’ll leave you with a few other little tidbits from the weekend.īut they still get to see what’s going on live on their scopes. First of all, most of the good fish were caught in bayous and lakes off the main river channel. They became even more important as the river continued to drop. By now, some of the areas that were hard to get into from the river may be out of reach of anglers without pulling a boat through the mud… Fish were caught around the edges of the timber in 3-4 feet of water and in 8-10 feet of water totally out away from structure. Where the shad go, the fish go… Dan and Sue Dannenmueller The fishermen that caught those fish in the open were fishing around big balls of shad. One team that did that was Dan and Sue Dannenmueller of Alabama.
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