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Going Home “… This time when he released the permit, it stayed upright, steadying itself in equipoise, mirror sides once again purely reflecting the bottom.”Thomas McGuane Ninety-Two In The Shade Takeoff “The more accomplished casters understand that haste is not a fundamental component of fly-fishing.”Guy de la Valdène On the Water, A Fishing Memoir Fall Run “If there is an aristocracy of zealots among striped bass fishermen, it is surely made up of those hardy, adventurous souls who tackle the high surf.”Henry Lyman, Frank Woolner The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing…
Glancing off the stern of the driftboat, I admired the tall limestone bluffs stretching skyward, dotted with hardwood trees just starting to show the orange tinges of fall. The conversation had hit a lull, and I relished the human silence so I could listen to the language of the river. Water running over rocks. Wind blowing through leaves. Birdsong. The oars smoothly sliced through the surface as our guide, Galen Kipar, positioned us within casting distance of the bank to fling topwater flies into slight windows of opportunity. The river water was darkened from a 3-inch rain just prior to our departure. To make matters worse, the storm struck right after the local tomato growers had tilled their fields, driving water the color of chocolate milk into the river. Visibility…
Based in New York City, José Alvarado Jr. is a photographer 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 explore them. José’s work appears with “End of an Era.” 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 editor of Surfcaster’s Journal, Jerry writes about an evening spent chasing giant striped bass from a small boat in “Deep Into the Night.” Ron Ballanti has worked in the marine electronics and fishing industries for more than two decades and…
A PICTURE VS. 1,000 WORDS From the moment I received my Summer issue, I was taken by the incredible cover and the offshore eye of photographer Harry Hindmarsh. To be fair, all the photos in AJ are the best — I’m just partial to offshore because that’s my passion. And I’ve always wanted to pick up a camera, and told my wife that this is the year. The last four years of my life have been busy, as pointed out in Charlie Levine’s “In Search of Adventure” [Weighing In]. My buddies and I decided to fish the 50th White Marlin Open, which was the perfect opportunity to try out my new camera. Well, I’m no Harry Hindmarsh, and I started to rethink my decision. I saw a guy with three…
The New Fish By Simen Sætre and Kjetil Østli Patagonia If you ever wanted an excuse to avoid farmed salmon, drop The New Fish on your table. The award-winning research of Simen Sætre and Kjetil Østli that exposed the dangers of salmon farming around the globe has been reprinted by Patagonia here in the United States. Frankenfish — the farmed salmon we eat are a fatty and fast-growing mix of 41 Norwegian and Swedish strains — are now raised from Chile to Canada, and are reducing the quality and quantity of wild fish. Starting at salmon farming ground zero in Norway, Sætre and Østli display time and time again the injurious impacts of this food-production system: the massive piles of waste from the pens that fill the fjords that wild…
AS I PULL INTO A PUBLIC PARK ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF BROWARD COUNTY, the sun is just peeking over the clusters of two-story McMansions that stop abruptly where the wilds of Florida take over. Corey Nowakowski is sitting in the driver’s seat of the only other vehicle in the parking lot. The world-record snakehead angler rolls down the window of his Toyota Tacoma to say hello. The “snakehead slayer” sticker on the rear window of his truck and the 10-foot jonboat sticking out past the tailgate gave him away. My glasses instantly fog up as I step out of my truck and into the muggy, August morning. Nowakowski, a 34-year-old native Floridian, invites me into his truck, and we drive a mile or two down the road before he…
