Friday, July 24, 2009

Fairhope pier icon dies at 95 - al.com

Fairhope pier icon dies at 95 - al.com: "DAPHNE — Ludy 'Cap' Anderson, who for more than three decades fished from a spot at the end of Fairhope Municipal Pier that came to be known as 'Cap's Corner,' has died. He was 95.

Wearing a baseball cap and, in more recent years, driving a three-wheeled electric scooter, Anderson taught hundreds of children to fish as he occasionally eyed his own three fishing rods for a telltale yank on the line.

Anderson had been unable to fish as often as he'd like in recent years because of health problems, family members said. In 2006, he was moved to a nursing home."