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I’ve always believed that Anglers Journal has the best readers in the fishing world, even if we don’t have quite as many as those titles that started a million years ago. This summer marks the ninth year since we began working on the inaugural issue of Anglers Journal. This issue is our 34th. That’s no small thing in today’s print magazine business, which is regularly beset by storms. But AJ has been a lucky ship since it first slid down the ways and was splashed in the winter of 2014. And with a good, seasoned crew, we have managed to skirt the reefs and shoals that cause even well-found vessels to founder. Our crew has included more than 150 writers and photographers whose work has appeared in these pages. Each…
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 takes us nighttime surf casting in “The Wild Cape.” A former petroleum geologist and wildlife biologist, Rick Bass is an environmentalist who has authored more than 30 books. He lives in Montana’s Yaak Valley and is a member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council, which works to protect the last roadless lands in that area. “The Longest Silence” is Rick’s remembrance of his good friend Russell Chatham. Michael Carr is an English teacher and writer from New Jersey who chases stripers with a fly rod whenever and…
Henry Hughes is an award winning poet and the author of Back Seat With Fish. He is a professor at Western Oregon University, and his writing is regularly published in Flyfishing & Tying Journal and Harvard Review. In “The Viking Guide,” Henry writes about a trip to Iceland to fish with guide Björn Pétursson, a descendant of Viking warrior Sigurd Snake-inthe-Eye. Cathy Newman, a former editor-at-large with National Geographic, writes for The Economist, NPR.com and The Wall Street Journal. Although her fiercest adoration is reserved for wild brown trout, she broadened her focus recently to write about goldfish for NationalGeographic.com. Cathy writes about the special relationship she had with her father in “Fishing as Family.” Doug Olander has spent much of his life writing about and photographing saltwater fishing. In…
SUBSCRIBE TO ANGLERS JOURNAL Call (800) 877-5207 or visit anglersjournal.com. Subscriptions are $29 for one year (four issues: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall). Please send letters and comments to Anglers Journal, 35 Industrial Park Road, Unit 10, Centerbrook, CT 06409, or email clevine@aimmedia.com. Awesome Chuck Many story and photo spread in the Spring issue! John A. TiedemannWest Long Branch, New Jersey RUE THE ROE I appreciated the story about fishing for sturgeon by Henry Hughes [“The Fish That Wasn’t Ours,” Winter]. Many people in the Pacific Northwest don’t even know these fish exist in our rivers, much less are they concerned about preserving them. The article addresses both perspectives. My wife, being Russian, loves caviar, but these days she largely consumes roe from salmon, rather than sturgeon. Fortunately, laws protect salmon…
Shuffling downstream through the mist,boots stirring up nymphs and stoneflies. Suddenly, a gulping swirl and a hard tug.The fisherman sets the hook. The green line tears the surface of the riverlike the sound of paper ripping. The rod tip bows to the brook,heaves and swells. A dragonfly alights on the taut line,while a raven watches from a sweeper. The salmon swings across the current,plows through a stretch of ripples trying to throw the stubborn hook—his silvery sides flashing in the porcelain light. The old man leans back and smilesas line peels from the whirring reel. So early in the morning, there is no one elseon the river,no other sound — only the gray fog rising, the raven’s stoic gaze,and the river’s babbling song.…
Casting Forward By Steve Ramirez Lyons Press When I think about a fly-fishing memoir, Texas doesn’t typically come to mind as the setting. And in the rare moment I do think of the Lone Star State, I’m probably imagining a book stuffed with redfish, seatrout and maybe the skyline of Galveston. But upending expectations is what good stories are about, and Steve Ramirez has done just that with Casting Forward, his personal catalog of Hill Country spring creeks. Although every chapter focuses on a different river or stream that flows through that broken country, catalog might be too sterile a term, as Ramirez breathes life and emotion into his essays of the water that has saved him. The healing power Ramirez received from this place since his retirement from the…
