Found this in the sports section this a.m.,
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2...iske/?uniontribre. the Manzanar internment camp. It struck a chord with me because my early retreats into the Sierra (I started in the 50's) were in search of GOOD FISHING.
But Heihachi Ishikawa actually was a legendary and brave Japanese-American who would risk his life and sneak out of the well-guarded Manzanar World War II internment camp north of Lone Pine to go fishing.
Ishikawa's incredible story of living off the land in the hard Sierra mountain range for a couple of weeks at a time is one of many incredible stories of survival that make up Cory Shiozaki's work in progress. Shiozaki's partially completed documentary, “From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks,” will preserve the stories of how Japanese-Americans used their ingenuity and called on their bravery to fish Sierra streams and lakes.
