5 Reasons We Fish
Five writers unravel why these fish became their favorites
Illustrations By Nick Mayer
Season of the Surf
The fall migration lures legions of diehards into the suds, where they cast night and day for one last fish
Playing for Keeps
A group of hard-fishing captains heads to the Cape each June for the spring striper run
Yellowfin Tuna
Yellowfin tuna are beautiful fish whose speed and power put them in a class of their own
Fighting big fish with Ernest Hemingway
One of big-game fishing’s greatest practitioners, Ernest Hemingway believed that fighting large marlin and tuna should be a fair contest of strength between fish and fisherman.
Damn Near Perfect
Here at last was an almost-virgin, freestone stream that looked like the streams that Arnold Gingrich, Ray Bergman and A.J. McClane had written about.
Tom and the Fat Boys
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.
Beach Blitz
The peanut bunker were so thick you could walk on them, and stripers romped day and night.
One Helluva Fish
Why the bluefish, an animated chopping machine with a public relations problem, just might be the perfect game fish