by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 17, 2020
Chris Dorsey spent the day with the Sporting Classics team during the Casting Call book signing and offered up a few inside details about the project. If the past year has left you aching for travel, pining for a cool trout stream or daydreaming of life on the water,...
by Rick Rosner | Dec 2, 2020
Experts argue about the genesis of saltwater fly fishing, but there is no question that anglers have been at it for at least 2,000 years. At that time, Roman author Claudius Aelianus described it thusly: “One of the crew sitting at the stern lets down…lines with...
by Roger Pinckney | Nov 12, 2020
Three-fifths of the world is water and the wind courses over all of it. So when Pappy gave me that 10-foot bateau, he gave me the world. The first swell smacked the port quarter, sent green water clean over the wheelhouse. Aboard Maggie C, a 26-foot Maine Lobsterman,...
by Carly Altizer | Oct 23, 2020
The thought of a sportfishery for great whites tantalizes some anglers, but if it’s ever to happen, the science will have to support it. “I want to show you something.” I had spent enough time working for the artificial reef program at the South Carolina...
by Chris Dorsey | Oct 21, 2020
For many, catching a bonefish on the fly is tantamount to turning the saltwater flats to holy water. As a fly fisherman, I feel naked when I wade a saltwater flat to cast for bonefish. I try and play the part of motionless heron but nevertheless feel so exposed in the...
by Michael M. DeWitt, Jr. | Oct 15, 2020
October is oyster season in the southeast, and there are a few things the United Oyster Ranchers and Rodeo Association of America doesn’t want you to know about the common oyster. “Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.” – Charles Dickens “He was a...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 14, 2020
A trio of Massachusetts teenagers reeled in a massive bluefin tuna weighing more than the three anglers combined and measuring more than 10 feet in length. In early October off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Captain Dan Smith and his crew Kyle Falle and Jim...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 5, 2020
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has recognized Logan Liddick of Carlisle, Pennsylvania as the new Maryland state record holder for the gray triggerfish (Balistes capriscus). The 34-year-old angler caught the 6.0-pound, 20-inch long fish on September 25,...
by Luke Clayton | Sep 16, 2020
These professional hunters anglers understand there is no substitute for spending time in the field or on the water. During my career as an outdoors writer, I have worked with hundreds of fishing and hunting guides while on story assignments and worked as a guide...
by Larry Chesney | Sep 8, 2020
There’s more to the story. The flip side of Flip. He stays busy– too busy to fish one might think, but flingin’ a fly is always on the schedule. When most of us landlubbers think of Flip Pallot, we picture a smiling, bearded gentleman casting a fly for bonefish or...
