2. As Skink and Decker sit in their boat waiting for the cheating fishermen to retrieve the marked fish, Decker asks if Skink is wanted for something. How does Skink respond?

3. What is the name of the state trooper that Decker meets just after getting back to Harney?

4. What nickname does Skink call Decker by?

5. What does Decker ask Pickney to help him find?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ott Pickney become the Davey Dillo mascot for the high school?

2. As Decker returns to Skink's house after Bobby's funeral, why does Decker honk his horn twice?

3. What surprises Skink when he spies Bobby on the day that Bobby dies?

4. Decker realizes that he's met Lanie Gault before Harney. Where did Decker originally meet Lanie Gault?

5. Why did Decker quit doing photography as a living?

6. Why does Decker not bother to hide his expensive camera equipment in his trailer home?

7. What are the demands which Weeb agrees to when confronted by Dickie in Weeb's hotel room in New Orleans?

8. Why are the fishing guides in Harney paid up to $200 per day for their services?

9. Why does Decker leave his first profession out of high school and accept a job at a local newspaper?

10. According to Lanie Gault, what made Bobby Clinch different from all the other fishermen at the bass tournaments?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the three main demands of Dickie Lockhart when he confronts Charles Weeb in Weeb's New Orleans hotel room. For each demand, tell Lockhart's reasoning behind the demand, what Lockhart hoped to accomplish through the demand, and the likelihood of the demand actually being met by Weeb.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the course of the novel, R.J. Decker is involved with two quite different women. Compare and contrast the relationship Decker has with Catherine to the relationship Decker has with Lanie. Then, compare and contrast these two women. How do these two relationships influence not only Decker, but also the other men working with Decker to stop the cheating and solve the murders?