Our passions have a way of doing that for us: extending our lives In 1971, a father and son ventured out of their apartment in New Jersey to the Island of Martha\'s Vineyard to try their hand at surfcasting. - Excerpt from A Long Cast.
Like stars in the night sky, they are best enjoyed when you get some distance from the lights of other stuff.
This is a collection of recollection: stories of saltwater characters, occurrences, and conversations.
There are no helpful fishing hints here.
I am not a good Surf fisherman.
Join Mike on his pilgrimage back to where the distance between heaven and earth gets a little thinner and the real keepers of the trip go far beyond the fish on the end of the line.
The result is a profound collection of essays on life with some notes from the trade filtered in.
Through it all, more than fish are caught-and shared.
Rather, hard fishing has a way of revealing lessons from the shore and the people who gather there-binding together strangers in conversations and gestures, failures and successes, new learnings, and, eventually, creating old friends.
It does not contain the secrets to a fantastic fishing career.
This is not a How To book.
Fifty Years later, Mike Carotta takes readers aLong for thirty straight nights and days of fishing.
That trip began a life of Spring trips to the waters\'s edge in search of bluefish and striped bass.
Our passions have a way of doing that for us: extending our lives In 1971, a father and son ventured out of their apartment in New Jersey to the Island of Martha\'s Vineyard to try their hand at surfcasting
