by Mike Rivkin | Sep 11, 2024
No other world record comes even close to Alf Dean’s great white shark. But it’s the one that got away that captivated him the most.
by Sporting Classics Daily | Aug 12, 2024
This week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey is an adventure in the Gulf Stream as Chris Dorsey and friends are after tight lines on saltwater. The fly fishing adventure starts in Cape Cod in pursuit of striped bass, then heads south to Puerto...
by Ken Blomberg | Jul 24, 2024
He fished for panfish, bass, and maybe, just maybe, a muskie.
by Roger Pinckney | Jul 17, 2024
Papa called her Pilar and she was a fishing machine, a 1934 Wheeler Playmate, custom built to his specifications in a Brooklyn boatyard. She was 38 feet at the waterline, with a low-cut transom rigged with a roller for sliding fish aboard. She held a ton of ice, had...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Apr 11, 2024
SPONSORED CONTENT Now Booking for 2024! 2024 is Classic Alaska Charters 34th season navigating the protected wilderness waterways of Misty Fjords National Monument/Wilderness Area! They offer outstanding adventure cruises for 5 days, 4 nights, saltwater fishing,...
by Dave Vedder | Mar 12, 2024
Hoping to complete his bucket list, the author journeys to far-off Australia to pursue the world’s most spectacular gamefish.
by Roger Pinckney | Dec 1, 2023
His interests were narrow but deep—deep as the deep blue sea. Joshua Slocum was born to a sea-faring life in 1844, “on a cold spot on coldest North Mountain on a cold February 20,” back when ships were wood and men were iron. His granddaddy was an American Quaker, a...
by Chris Dorsey | Nov 27, 2023
You never know what will happen when hunting and fishing with this comedian and his friends.
by Sandy Rodgers | Aug 9, 2023
Scene: A summer morning, Florida Keys, late July — but the events outlined here could have transpired in August, even September, just as well. We load the cooler with gallons of Gatorade, water and ice, with the reasonable expectation that it will feel downright...
by Mike Gaddis | Aug 7, 2023
In the 60s it was hip to be bass, and anglers everywhere welcomed a whole new breed of American hero. By 1965, the bassing revolution was at full throttle and re-born bass fishing was rapidly becoming galaxial. It was hip to be bass. Popularity encouraged fraternity...