The Golden Age of Montauk Sportfishing: Interviews with Eight Legendary Captains - Akin, Bill
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In June 1994, a group of six veteran Montauk captains, all longtime friends, gathered around a table at the Tipperary Inn near the center of Montauk Harbor. Their faces were all permanently tanned, rutted, and scorched, evidence of lives lived on the ocean. For hours they laughed, told fish stories, remembered some of their best days fishing, and shared a few solemn moments. As witnesses to both the good and bad, they did not hesitate to criticize actions they thought had hurt the fishing in Montauk. All had been on the water the day the Pelican capsized, drowning forty-five souls, and each…mehr

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In June 1994, a group of six veteran Montauk captains, all longtime friends, gathered around a table at the Tipperary Inn near the center of Montauk Harbor. Their faces were all permanently tanned, rutted, and scorched, evidence of lives lived on the ocean. For hours they laughed, told fish stories, remembered some of their best days fishing, and shared a few solemn moments. As witnesses to both the good and bad, they did not hesitate to criticize actions they thought had hurt the fishing in Montauk. All had been on the water the day the Pelican capsized, drowning forty-five souls, and each had played a major role as Montauk was transformed from an obscure commercial fishing port into a world-renowned sportfishing destination.
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Bill Akin began fishing in Montauk in 1950 with his father. Over the following decades, he fished the Atlantic coast from St. Thomas, V.I. to St Johns, Newfoundland, and in the Pacific out of Costa Rica and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. >Joe is a twenty-year member of the Montauk Lighthouse Committee and is the current Keeper of the Montauk Lighthouse where he resides. Formerly a local Montauk business owner and Chairman of Suffolk County National Bank, Joe is now a financial adviser with Merrill Lynch.