Anglers Journal

My Boat My Life

ohn Montonye was 6 when he caught his first fish — a pink salmon — on the Buskin River in Kodiak, Alaska, where his father was stationed in the Coast Guard. “Our first boat was a 23-foot Yamaha skiff,” Montonye says. “We used that boat to catch halibut and

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