Illustration by Sally Deng
By James Pogue
This is a nice read that will hopefully excite you to go and cast a rod…
“So one day I took my rod, walked a few blocks down to a little pier jutting into the harbor, and chatted a bit with the voluble neighborhood bait fishers about tides and what sorts of things fish get into beneath the surface of New York’s great estuary. The next night I went back and hooked a nice striped bass. I rarely keep the fish I catch, but I ran off carrying this one to my local, to announce my triumph and receive a couple free drinks as congratulations. This, at least, was something you couldn’t do after fishing in a remote mountain stream.” READ ARTICLE
