Have Knife, Will Travel

If you think you’re really good at filleting fish, don’t stand next to Rickie Richoux at the cleaning table.

The rugged man flipped a business card to the fishermen at the International Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo. It displayed a bowie knife in its center and read Slimeslingers Professional Fish Cleaning: Willing to Travel.

Right down to the ice-water blue eyes and manicured moustache, Rickie Richoux was a ringer for Richard Boone, the sophisticated but testosterone-oozing gunslinger who played Paladin on the six-year television western, Have Gun, Will Travel.Click here to read more on Have Knife, Will Travel

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Jerald Horst is a retired Louisiana State University professor of fisheries. He is an active writer, book author and outdoorsman.