Spring 2021

Anglers Journal

A Fishing Life

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Teaser Bite
Sailfish Coming in Hot North Carolina
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Misty Morn
Early Rainbow Madison River
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Caught Out
Storm Front Palm Beach, Florida
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Larger Than Life
I hiked beside Nick Adams through the charred countryside of northern Michigan to the Big Two-Hearted River, where he camped for the night, woke up and caught grasshoppers for bait, and fished for trout, leaving the waters of the swamp for another ti
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Contributors
Photographer Tony Arruza picked up a camera in his late teens to document a life that revolved around the ocean, surfing, fishing and scuba diving. That symbiotic relationship led to a career that has spanned more than four decades and resulted in wo
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Angler's Journal
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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Mail
Anglers Journal is the best medicine for these Covid times, especially in upstate New York, where winter weather adds to the indoor boredom. Every time an issue arrives, it changes my outlook for the better. Now retired, I fish once or twice a week.
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Old Man And The Bayou
We Wells boys loved to fish but not necessarily with our grandfather, William Henry “Pop” Wells — also known as Catfish Willie. Here’s one example why. It’s a blistering hot southern Louisiana spring afternoon, sultry as a steambath, and we’re out on
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Drawer Full of Memories
He had giant hands. Fingers the circumference of quarters. Scarred, scratched, calloused and rough. Shaking his hand was like shaking a catcher’s mitt. But somehow he could tie intricate fishing knots. He could fix damn near anything, and whether it
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One Of The Good Ones
As a charter captain, Chris Sheeder caught more than 35,000 billfish, an unimaginable number. The average captain is lucky to catch a 10th of that in the time it took Sheeder to reach that milestone. The 37-foot Merritt he skippered, Release, caught
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Luck
Cappy tore apart the shack searching for his favorite, salt-stained, tattered hat, barking at us when we stepped over rods or taunted a gull. We’d never pack a banana, or rename a boat, even when it was Misty. Oldtimers warned of redheads, women and
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Father and Sons
Rivers are round, naturalist Aldo Leopold said. He meant the seamlessness of life and continuum of energy flowing from sun to plants to insects to trout. For John N. Maclean, the round river that connects now and then, and family and friends, is the
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“The Magellan of Medicine”
Many people think that our days of exploring are mostly over. The frontiers are vanquished, we’ve walked on the moon … there’s not much new ground to cover, right? Dr. Trent Talbot, a physician-entrepreneur, begs to differ. His company, The MediSearc
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Perfect Imperfection
Three albacore move through the water as if they are flying, canting their bodies, graceful as terns. Several flying fish are pursued by a mahi-mahi, and a pair of marlin streak past. The creator of these scenes is Dwight Hwang, who specializes in th
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Wild Things
There’s a passion for adventure within many of us, a force that drives some to push the boundaries and explore places far off the beaten path. I guide wilderness fly-fishing trips in Alaska for a living, yet I still yearn to discover special places w
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A Dance of His Own
Somewhere along a remote Pacific Baja beach, a man in knee-high boots walks to the water’s edge early in the morning. The tide is full, and the surf is head-high and breaking on both an outside bar and an inner one. He studies the waves and white wat
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Being There
I am a fly-fishing guide and a photographer with a long-term project of taking portraits of guides anywhere I find myself with a camera and a fly rod. So far, that has ranged from my home turf in Sun Valley, Idaho, to Argentina, Cuba, New Zealand, Ho
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Spring Break
Migrations are a study in movement and endurance. The petite Arctic tern, for example, travels as many as 44,000 miles between Greenland and Antarctica each year. Or consider the eastern monarch, a butterfly with a microscopic cluster of brain cells
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Virtuoso Of The Flats
Imagine you’re in a Hell’s Bay skiff on flat, calm water. The sun is high, and shadows of darting fish are easily perceived along the sandy bottom, floating “with the current, unresisting,” as Hemingway famously wrote. But you’re not in the Florida K
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My Boat My Life
Anyone who has fished the autumn false albacore and red drum runs off Cape Lookout, North Carolina, during the last 15 years has likely come across Kary Via and his center console, Natural Fly. Via seems to have a knack for being where the fish are b

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