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I lived by a self-imposed never-buy-new rule until I laid eyes on an Everglades 255cc.

The sound of Bouncer Smith's twin 300-hp Evinrudes starting in the morning sends a shiver down the spine of the fish in Florida. The editors seek out Bouncer to find out why fish everywhere fear this man.

Since he was a boy, fishing has been a driving force in the life of Pat Healey, the head of Viking Yachts.

Contradictory worldviews collide along a river in Montana, where a guide wrestles with heady questions of conservation, ethics and hypocrisy.

The West Palm Beach event raised money and awareness for fighting prostate cancer.

Two old friends pull story after story from a river of memories as they once again fish the Michigan waters of their boyhood.

I’ve been waiting for a son or daughter to share my fervor for fishing. I may have finally found one with a grandson who is taken by all things fish.

He was known as “Trout Boy” around the Yale University campus as a student, so it’s no surprise that artist James Prosek has crafted a career from pursuing, painting and writing about fish.

Climbing mountains for fish is a spiritual endeavor for the author, whose parents pointed him toward a fuller way of life on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne reservation.

Party-boat fishing is as much about fun as it is fish. Winning the pool is an honor like no other, and the IRS is none the wiser if you don’t report your winnings.

Henry Walsh’s life story is told in the tackle left behind after his passing, gear that was baptized in the fresh and the salt in pursuit of bass, trout and his greatest love: Atlantic salmon.

For the past decade, I entertained a naval architecture fantasy that came to fruition earlier this year. She’ll be my last boat, and finally I can use the phrase “my Regulator.”

Art Lee is remembered as a master fly fisherman who stood on the bank before wading or casting, surveying the water for the clues that would make him a “trout’s nemesis, not its butler.”

With his three kids off to college, the boat is a little quieter and a little emptier. A father looks back on the years he spent with his most reliable fishing partners.

Artist Dan Sharley is a passionate fly fisherman whose work is punctuated by experimentation, a calculated lack of control and an openness to making mistakes.

This longtime designer never owned his own boat until he and his father purchased a Jupiter 26 FS, which has brought together three generations of anglers.

Capt. R.T. Trosset, the dean of Key West Guides, has been fooling fish like few others for 44 years

Venerable Tochterman’s tackle shop in Baltimore has been satisfying the wants and needs of generations of fisher folk for 102 years.

A father-son relationship is strengthened during a fishing trip to New Zealand, as the young man prepares to leave home and the elder contemplates a new phase in their lives.

The prolific writer and sportsman published his 17th book this past spring, the latest achievement in a career that started with doing brake jobs in Wyoming and guiding in Key West.

Fighting has made him a better fisherman; fishing has made him a better man.

A collaboration between the author and a craftsman ended a 30-year quest to solve a hundred-year-old problem: producing a long, functional 2-weight split-cane fly rod.

D’Artagnan would be proud of these musketeers — artists and writers who fished, hunted, drank and cooked from one end of the country to the other, with Key West as a beacon.

When the writer landed what has become known as The Fifty Four Dollar Grouper, it was the beginning of a lifelong education in cooking his catch.