November 17, 2009 – 12:19 pm
Drum Roll, please — It’s time for us to announce the winners of The Charleston Angler Photo and Essay Contest! Over the course of October we collected entries from Lowcountry Anglers, and boy was the competition thick. Our judges – Jeff Dennis, Matt Winters, and Daniel Nussbaum – read through 23 [...]
November 3, 2009 – 4:29 pm
Joining the “Billfish Club”
By Caleb Davis, Age 13
Edisto Island
I have always had a love for fishing but it wasn’t until this past July that I discovered just how much fun offshore fishing could be. One night in July, while watching TV, my dad came up to me and said, “Caleb, do you want to [...]
November 3, 2009 – 11:27 am
The Fish “Store”
By Mercedes Sykora
It was mid-morning and it was time to go to the “fish store” for dinner. Our family of four had been living on board a sailboat in the Bahamas. My husband, Ron, often referred to the ocean’s reefs as our “store”. Here, we would catch whatever we wanted for lunches and [...]
November 2, 2009 – 1:24 pm
Sailing for Blues
We were under full sail aboard the Carowee, a 30 foot sail boat making 7 knots on a heading of 120 degrees true. The sun was only 30 minutes over the horizon turning the sea from black to the wonderful deep blue only found in the Gulf Stream off Charleston. We had two [...]
November 2, 2009 – 12:43 pm
Black Marlin for Mom-to-Be
My wife and I took a trip to beautiful Costa Rica 20 years ago. Our 2nd child was 6 months in the oven. We did not know if Captain Bill Gannon at Sport Fishing Costa Rica in Quepos would even allow Barbara to fish aboard his 23 ft charter boat.
Eventually we set [...]
October 30, 2009 – 2:02 pm
SUNKISSED
I guess I could tell you all about that time when he caught that shark out by Capers Island, a couple of summers ago. The shark was a four foot long Blacktip, its top fin impressive and sharp as a knife, yet soft and beautiful. The skin like sand paper and the black eyes beautiful [...]
October 30, 2009 – 10:57 am
Peter M. Devlin
Fish Michigan
It finally happened last night. The day after pop icon Michael Jackson and legendary hottie Farrah Fawcett passed away, I caught my biggest ever brown trout on a dry fly. We had worked out some kinks, we had picked any and every available brain. We had a plan, got to the river [...]
October 29, 2009 – 2:09 pm
Fishing With My Grandson
Every summer for almost the last twenty years, we have set aside a week to spend with each of our grandchildren. This summer, our youngest grandson, Cortland, came down from Clemson to sped his week with us. He is eleven years old and full of energy. Early on we asked him what [...]
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