Winter 2022

Anglers Journal

A Fishing Life

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Small Worlds
It’s standard to get plenty of emails, texts and calls in fall when the fish in New England are on the move. Reports come from a boat captain, a young guy who works at a tackle shop and a longtime fishing friend who has a beach cottage in Quonochonta
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Contributors
Michael Carr is an English teacher and writer from New Jersey who chases stripers with a fly rod whenever and wherever he can. He is working on a collection of fishing essays in the off-hours between hikes, pond trips and driveway hockey with his son
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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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Great article and photos. You’ve captured Bob Clouser’s very heart and soul [“One Fly To Rule Them All,” Fall]. I’ve known Bob for many years, and I’ve said it before: Everyone should have a friend like Bob Clouser. I am so happy that he and Jackie f
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The Armchair Angler
By David Coggins Scribner Most anglers should be optimists. Perhaps even the grumpiest man on the dock is at his core a person full of hope. David Coggins is one of these hopeful anglers, and through global destinations, his readers realize that opti
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Virginia Kings
Corn and soybean fields are the last scenery that blows past my SUV as I turn left onto a country road in the heart of Virginia’s Eastern Shore. It’s late August, and humidity hangs in the air as a dragonfly goes kersplat! against my windshield. A tr
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Oyster Slog
For some years now, my good friend and exemplary charter-boat crewman Larry Grimard and I have embarked upon an oyster-gathering expedition to the muddy banks of Maine’s Damariscotta River. Grimard studies his charts to determine when the lowest tide
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The Fish That Wasn’t Ours
“Incredible,” Charles says over the misty white roar as we idle my 16-foot skiff below Willamette Falls at Oregon City, Oregon. Just south of Portland, 26 miles above its confluence with the Columbia River, the Willamette thunders over mossy basalt a
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Shark Fishing With My Daughter
Off Sandy Hook, drifting the Mud Hole, shaking the yellow chum bag into glittery flutter, circle hooks hang live bunker under pink balloons left over from my daughter’s tenth birthday. We spot dolphins and whales, eat cookies, chat about her friends
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Heaven’s Gate
It was a beautiful winter day in the Florida Keys, and Rhona Chabot and I were cruising west of Key West in Capt. R.T. Trosset’s 39-foot Yellowfin, Spindrift. Our destination was a ledge some 65 miles west of Key West harbor, where Trosset’s son, Cap
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A Keys Affair
"That’s the bridge where me and Pop caught a tarpon at night on a chunk of mullet,” I tell the two little heads in the back seat who had just awoke from a Netflix coma. “I still don’t know how we got the fish in without breaking it off.” With each mi
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The Innovator
The bow of the ship chugged up the wave like a roller coaster clicking up the track to the peak of its first drop. Cresting the top of the mountain-sized swell, the bow fell off, crashed into the trough and disappeared under the icy waters of the Nor
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Trout-obsessed
My son’s cast flew skyward like a pop-fly and landed with a loud splash about 10 feet off the bow. The kerplop made me cringe and undoubtedly gave away our position to any fish within 50 yards. I was just about to suggest that he reel in and cast aga
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Boyle’s Law
The crisp air around the salt pond is autumnal. Jaime Boyle stands silhouetted against the first flecks of the rising sun tending to the 1992 Hewes skiff that’s been outfitted for his use in the briny waters around Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. H
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Hawkeye
Wayne Davis is a pilot who looks for fish. Like an osprey, he stares down from above, eyeing the water for movement, shape, contrast. This summer will be his 50th season as a fish spotter. But Wayne doesn’t look for just any fish. In all these decade
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My Boat My Life
Brian Rice’s grandfather owned a nicely outfitted Johnson Brothers powerboat but didn’t know a thing about fishing — nor did he want to. Luckily for Rice, his father and uncle loved to fish and made good use of the boat in their home waters around th

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