Rod Fisher

The Whitefish River Rats Rod Fisher

It's a fictional story abouit 11-year-old boys who want to emulate Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by playing pirates and adventurers on the Whitefish River and Lake in the summer of 1942. Abandoned boats and an old dilapitated clapboard schoolhouse with a bell tower provide props for their misadventures. Were they deliquents, miscreants or petty thieves? In any case they did provbide leads which helped solve a murder. Romantic fixations also enter into the course of events with the subsequent disappointments and successes of schoolboy crushes.