Fall 2021

Anglers Journal

A Fishing Life

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Striper Island
I’ve always had a thing for islands. I fished five islands in the North-east, by boat and from shore, for so many years that I consider them home waters. Most of the large stripers I’ve taken have come off four of those islands, which are swept daily
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PRESIDENT GARY DESANCTIS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WILLIAM SISSON CREATIVE DIRECTOR ERIN KENNEY SENIOR EDITOR MICHAEL LABELLA MANAGING EDITOR GARY REICH SENIOR WRITER CHARLIE LEVINE EDITOR-AT-LARGE DANIEL HARDING JR. STAFF EDITORS STEVEN JYLKKA, KIM KAVIN SENI
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Contributors
Jerry Audet is a writer, photographer and lifelong fisherman residing in Massachusetts. Dedicated to shore-based striper fishing, he writes about and takes photographs of a wide array of angling disciplines up and down the East Coast. The managing ed
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The Armchair Angler
Custom House The most influential and recognizable family name in American fly-fishing literature is undoubtedly the Macleans of Missoula, Montana. In Home Waters, John Maclean — son of Norman Maclean, the author of A River Runs Through It — offers a
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Great Summer issue. Redolent of Gray’s Sporting Journal but better. I noticed in the story about the Bolton Ranch Club [“Fish Hippies”] that one of the guys had what looked like my first not-hand-me-down fly rod and reel, an Orvis Madison setup. I sp
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A Bass Fisherman Adjusts His Vision to a Darker View of the World
A half-assed cast and my four-dollar crankbaithangs from a stump like a Christmas ornament.I tighten the line and snap my wrist,turn my head too late and feel piercing steel.My right eye explodes with something worse than pain.The world sliced in hal
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Fishwife
I had my first clue about what my life as a fisherman’s wife would be when I found myself chest deep in a stretch of Alaskan whitewater pushing an inflatable raft upstream. This was before Bill (the editor of this magazine) and I were married, when I
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Feeding the Bull
I just killed a thing I love. A living thing I revere. But it doesn’t belong here in Montana. It’s more than 2,000 miles from its home range, that place in the Appalachian Mountains where I’ve lived much of my life, falling in love with its graceful
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Wrapped in Red Snapper
When I first started fishing for red snapper, the species was not entangled in the mess of red tape that it is these days. Snapper season extended more than a couple of weekends, and you could put some fish in the cooler without regulations and seaso
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Season Of The Blitz
Fall is a never-ending blur, with birds, bait, fish and fishing folk in constant motion, chasing one another from sunrise to sunset and through the night. It’s a time to be dialed in to the hunt, with multiple migrations overlapping as predators chas
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A World Away
South African guide Dean Scott piloted the 18-foot skiff to a flat on the near side of Saint Francois, the primary fishing atoll in the Seychelles and a 25-minute ride from Alphonse Island. It had taken four flights, two and a half days of travel, an
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Secret Spot
Anglers have a propensity for coming up with absurd nicknames for every little nook and cranny they fish. It’s a way of reminding themselves of what the spot produces, its characteristics, or something profound or comical that happened there. For man
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Shaped By Water
“I don’t know how y’all normally like to fish, but I was taught to take turns between trout and pools,” David Joy says with a smile as he steps into waders next to his pickup. Here, in the mountains of western North Carolina, the sun is beginning to
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Hail To The Bait Man
Goggle-eyes don’t hold bankers’ hours. They move under cover of darkness. That’s why they have such big eyes; so they can stick together and evade predators. Technically speaking, it’s a bigeye scad, or if you’re fishing south of the border a caballi
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One Fly To Rule Them All
Weaving its way through rolling hills, dense woodlands, open meadows, dairy farms, urban centers and three states, the 444-mile Susque-hanna is the longest river on the East Coast. During its prime, it was one of the most prolific stretches of smallm
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Nome Alone
The biologists at the fisheries office in Nome, Alaska, gave me a tip: There were still late-run sockeye 40 miles inland on the Nome-Teller Road at the outlet to aptly named Salmon Lake. The drive was one of those peak experiences you never forget. A
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My Boat My Life
The first installment of “My Boat My Life,” in the Winter 2014 premiere issue of Anglers Journal, featured Tom Delotto and his 1997 Regulator 26, Nifty2, which he had purchased in August 2013. “It took a lot of work to get her to where I wanted her,”

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