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SHAXON, ALAN (ALAN ARTHUR HOWSON). ALAN SHAXON’S AERIAL FISHING. Being the complete apparatus, including the special fishing pole, bowl, base (for lighting the bowl from below), folding metal/Perspex table, bait, gimmicks, and carrying case for Shaxon’s signature effect. In performance, after baiting the hook on his fishing rod, Shaxon cast the line over the heads of the audience and caught live fish in mid-air. Shaxon (1933 – 2012) served as president of The Magic Circle, and Aerial Fishing was one of a handful of his pet effects, and arguably the one for which he was best known. It’s working was kept a well-guarded secret for decades, as his method for producing the fish was substantially different than the widely-known versions and variants popularized since the invention of the trick by Dr. Nix in the nineteenth century.