Posts Tagged Black Cod

The Newport Beach Dory Fleet — Looking Back #7 — 1989

March 15, 2018 by kenjones
Hunky Dory — Plucking Fish From a Dangerous Ocean in a Small Boat: ‘This, It’s Not Easy, You Know?’ Says One Who Does It Onshore, the bright orange morning sun has just begun to show behind the towers of Newport Center, nearly 4 miles to the north, as Nick D’Amato falls into a relentless, flailing [...]

The Newport Beach Dory Fleet — Looking Back # 4 — 1971

March 15, 2018 by kenjones
A Line to the Sea—and the Past: Newport Beach Dorymen Like Biblical Fishers Newport Beach—The dory fishermen of Newport Beach have been likened to the fishermen of biblical times on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Poems have been written about them. A restaurant, The Dorymen, has been named for them. Books and magazine [...]

The Newport Beach Dory Fleet — Through The Years

March 11, 2018 by kenjones
Newport Pier was where I began my pier fishing life in 1962. I would ride my bicycle down the hill from Costa Mesa and try to get the best spot on the pier (the corner spot). To do that meant I would have to leave the house around 4 AM. Generally the only people I [...]