Fishing Stories

I met him about a dozen years ago. It was when I first began guiding. He showed up with two different rigs. One was a brand new 5 weight rod and 6 weight forward line. The other rig was a...

The first fish most Long Islanders, like myself, caught as a kid was a fluke.  I can’t remember the limits back then.   Mine was caught on one of the party boats out of Freeport with a bunch of my...

Last Wednesday there was a photo of a nice walleye in my hometown newspaper. The editor decided to include me in the caption of some other guy's big fish glory photo. It said:  "The One Len Didn't Catch." I thought...

This is my rock. There are many like it, but this one is mine. The iconic image of a surfcaster on an isolated rock, bent rod, battling elements and fish alike gets any angler’s adrenaline flowing.  More predominant in New...

"nothing has felt better than to land a big ole’ king on the end of the line in Alaska!" Like so many of us, country music star Jerrod Niemann finds fishing to be relaxing, exciting, and a favorite pastime for...