Summer 2018

Anglers Journal

A Fishing Life

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No Quarter
In hindsight, it was as much a prophecy as it was a casual observation. Any good young skipper worth his salt, the retired captain told me years ago, should be able to out-fish an older captain and leave him in his wake. If he can’t, something’s wron
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Contributors
Based in New York City, José A. Alvarado Jr. is pursuing a career in photojournalism and documentary photography. He expresses himself through imagery, and much of his work focuses on the small subcultures in his home state and his journeys to explor
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Mail
I have enjoyed reading Anglers Journal. Your piece “9 to 5? Not For This Bunch” was a nice, entertaining read [Winter 2018, “Between Fish”]. In the story, Bill Sisson quotes Matthias Hackett (left) as saying, “I’m not going to be able to do this when
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A Conversation with Thomas McGuane
Since publishing his first novel in the late 1960s, Thomas McGuane has gone on to create a large body of work — novels, screenplays, short fiction and essays — beloved by sportsmen and literary critics alike. McGuane is the only individual to be an i
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The Shining Tides
Saturn was the evening star. The moon had crossed the meridian with the sun and was invisible from earth; it was dark o’ the moon. When the blanket of stars lay close and heavy on the water, shimmering and opalescent, Roccus broke through it with a r
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Ties That Bind
My only son Diego is 17 and will be leaving home in a year. The impending change is what put us inside the small, thin-shelled, plastic and aluminum cabin of a Robinson R44 helicopter. We are slowly descending into a valley in New Zealand where the M
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Engineering History
The sun is just rising over the horizon. The air is damp and heavy. I walk down the bustling dock of the Abaco Beach Resort with my colleagues Bill Sisson and digital director John Turner. Crews are busy prepping baits and boats for day one of the Cu
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Ultimate Mahi
It’s plentiful, if you know when and where to look. It’s a surface-dwelling, migratory, carnivorous critter that roams offshore pretty much everywhere there’s a warm ocean. It will eat just about anything, an appetite that makes it angler-friendly. I
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Calculus of Fluke
For three weeks, I’ve taken a running inventory of my fluke-fishing experiences to lay out a rational case for my obsessive 20-year campaign to put a cutting point on my doormat-catching skills. For most of my rod-and-reeling career, I’ve been forced
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River Hewn
“Who’s Madison?” the girl asks, lifting her head and shock of red hair from your chest. You raise your bare shoulders from the floor of her parents’ van, the rough carpeting peeling from your skin, and hoist yourself up by the elbows. “I’m sorry. Wha
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Tour De Force
Three light-tackle anglers and their sage captain were looking for big kingfish about 60 miles northwest of Key West at a spot in the Gulf that sometimes produces magic, but they couldn’t conjure a single king. That’s fishing. Still, we were having a
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Reeling In The Years
Tucked amid the brick-faced row houses only a mile or so from the high-rises of downtown Baltimore is a tackle shop that’s blissfully out of context. The building that houses it is unassuming, though a red and green neon sign with a jumping 6-foot la
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Eye Stopping
No one forgets his first white marlin. Mine came 50 miles off Virginia Beach, Virginia. We were trolling naked ballyhoo on my buddy Ken Neill’s boat. Wind-whipped cobalt water danced toward a pale blue horizon. I was standing next to the right flat l
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Free Flowing
Dan Sharley’s man cave has no flat-screen television, leather sofa or beer. On one side of the room, a well-worn easel holds a partially finished watercolor painting. Next to it is a drafting table littered with sketches, and a quick glance at the dr
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Fisherman, Fighter
Cars and trucks rumble past the pond at 40 mph. On one side is a gas station, and on the other are rows of uniform apartments. It’s not the kind of place you’d expect to meet a mixed martial arts star for an afternoon of fishing. Gregor Gillespie, fo
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Bulking Up
Brian Turner owns multiple businesses on Florida’s west coast. When he wants to fish for marlin and sailfish, he takes his outboard-powered center console about 130 miles to “The Steps” in the Gulf of Mexico. “I like to go fast, and I don’t get a who
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My Boat My Life
I’ve been a designer with Viking for 27 years and have captained five company demo boats. I’ve also fished in big-game tournaments up and down the East Coast, but I never had my own boat until I bought a new Jupiter 26 FS three years ago with my fath

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