I will no longer be writing the Outer Cape Insiders report for OTW. A new person will be doing come next April. I had fun but one can only write things like that before it gets stale.

I had fun and hope I helped in some small way.

I can now concentrate on feature articles with more time for in depth research.

Thanks to all who took time to check it out each month!

always read it, you did a great job Steve :claps:

Well, your insight and thoughts each month have been enlightening, informative, and entertaining. Your monthly input will be missed. I'm sure your successor will be good too, but I'll miss reading your reports. You added very good style to the Insiders Reports section.
Thanks for your years of service, and I'll look forward to your feature articles.:wave:

flap, i read it every month and i never fish there.

good luck with the features :kewl:

Steve....your insiders report has always been the first thing I flip to when I get the new issue!!! I cut my "striper teeth" reading your insiders report Steve and it is what helped me most in this passion we all love! Thanks for all your hard work and great writing!!:btu: I look forward to more feature articles!:bgi:

Your a good pen Flap. Your correct about getting stale. You could take your whole year of reports and just repeat them.....and they would again be true....just like every year after year. A change every year or so with report writers is really necessary.

Thank you Steve! You probably do not realize how many you have inspired and helped along for all of those year - Thanks!

Not that I've ever fished the outer Cape but a great read none the less!

Its the first thing I flip to as well. Always an informative read.:D

We'll miss your monthly report but look forward to your feature articles. Thanks for all your help and inspiration. Good luck to the new guy, I hope we can get the feds to do a study on those damn seals soon, I'll kill one in your honor next time out :D

Have not read the magizine in a while, but you always put out a good read. Change is good, and good for you... time to broaden the horizons with your prose, even as you continue there as a feature writer.. other oppurtunities are out there.. just like fishing.. persue all venues..:kewl:

Good luck to the new fellow.... and I hope he is as truthfull, and cautious in his reports, as you were....and Thank You for that!

Now.. don't go the way of your predecessor.. :hihi:...

Always a great read, thanks for the time you put into it.

:conf: :( you KNOW this saddens me and will be missed. Guess I will have to start reading my issues from front to back instead of back to front now....(I am going through withdrawls already this month by the way....)

Please remember those of us who are "junkies" for your tales and wisdom of those mystical beaches when writing those feature articles!!!!!:wavey:

Excuse me I need to go mourn now.....

Same as NEBE never fished there, read it every month anyways.

Flap....your InsiderReport was the first thing I went for as well....gonna miss it...also looking forward to reading your features soon...

thanks flap..... i think now the fish will come back.... we will honor you by killing a herd of momonoy sea rats.......

Gonna miss the monthly column, but I'm really looking forward to the articles. You're a very fine writer, Steve. I always look forward to your next work.

loved reading your stuff in OTW .. won't be the same ..

With your daughter attending school up this way, maybe a little time to scan through Fulton's reports for a few trips next spring?

Thanks for all the great insight. Like others I have not fished the outer cape (yet) but still always enjoyed the report and tried to gather some hints for the home field.

Steve,

I have an "Insiders" deep deep respect for both your writing style and the honesty that shines through that style. This news is bittersweet as I will miss your column but can also understand after writing my own column for only one season how one can only write so much about a limited area and keep the columns fresh.

I read it and look forward to the report each month. Living here and fishing here, I appreciate all the insight you'd write each month. Good luck with your feature articles, I'll look forward to those also. :btu:

Always opened to your column first,Steve. Will miss it. As stated before, you have unbelievable descriptive wrting skills and should be working on your own book, imho. Look forward to reading your feature articles. :btu:

Your article was the first i read, every issue. Thanks for all the help, and like Karl F wrote, thanks for your honest style of writing, and your first hand accounts of fishing the backside. Your monthly articles will be missed. Thanks again.

Thanks Steve, I enjoyed it as well.

but feature articles where you can exercise your mind and pen in a more up to current date fashion :boots:

:conf: :( you KNOW this saddens me and will be missed. Guess I will have to start reading my issues from front to back instead of back to front now....(I am going through withdrawls already this month by the way....)

Please remember those of us who are "junkies" for your tales and wisdom of those mystical beaches when writing those feature articles!!!!!:wavey:

Excuse me I need to go mourn now.....

Jenn, the mysticism will be more profound and I dedicate my first feature of the new year to you! It's a tale of a famous old time surfman who is my hero and who knew the beach more intimately than any other I know, someone who was driven to fish and who was an eccentric who savored star lit skies, the open beach and fished mostly alone and set a standard that all who came after him and tried to emulate him could never achieve. He was the best at what he did and set the bar that no one has since been able to achieve. A cold winter nights read that hopefully will draw you back to the place you love so well and will set the dreams of all of us who love it so much as we settle in for that "long winter's nap".

Bassmaster? :hidin: Frankie D.?


Sheeeeeet I have to renew...since 97 :musc: Great mag :kewl:


Please include the history and intricacies of all the ocean life in close and out a bit and how they interact.....Love that stuff :kewl:


Steve!

Stan K.?:huh:

Steve,

Your contribution helped make the magazine the popular read that it is today. I'm sure your feature articles will be equally well received.

Best wishes,

Mike

I always looked forward to your reports. I hope the new guard is as knowledgable as you.

That's a tough thing to write unless you are an avid boat, shore and freshwater fisherman.

If you don't do a particular style of fishing it's impossible to write with any kind of authority - I did the Rhody one for a couple years and it was a monthly struggle to do the boat and freshwater paragraphs. I don't miss it.

Thanks for the memory's. Good luck.

I will miss your articles/writing Flaptail.

Although I do not fish the Cape I enjoyed your monthly report very much. I look forward to the feature articles.

Good Luck Steve,
I think the number of people who mention here that they still read your monthly article even though they don't fish the Cape is testimony to your writing skills, knowledge and the thorough research you always bring to the magazine. :claps: If you have more time now for the feature articles that makes it all even more worthwhile. I'm looking forward to your next article of a man whom I think many of us may have heard and can't wait to read the story.

Best wishes on the new trail,
Ed

Well done, always one of the first reads. Looking forward to more features.

Steve... hope that contact comes thru with info.. gave him yer #.. if neither of the old gents calls you.. about the one and only :D... let me know.. i'll stir the pot.. gonna ask the fellah across the street too, when i see him.. he is like a ghost now.. that tells me i should be out there......of course we are coming up on his "anniversary" date too... :)

Steve... hope that contact comes thru with info.. gave him yer #.. if neither of the old gents calls you.. about the one and only :D... let me know.. i'll stir the pot.. gonna ask the fellah across the street too, when i see him.. he is like a ghost now.. that tells me i should be out there......of course we are coming up on his "anniversary" date too... :)

Karl, the Senior Angler has contacted me and I will be back to him today, thanks so much. Fishing is very very good up this away right now. Hope it is down your way too.

Jenn, the mysticism will be more profound and I dedicate my first feature of the new year to you! It's a tale of a famous old time surfman who is my hero and who knew the beach more intimately than any other I know, someone who was driven to fish and who was an eccentric who savored star lit skies, the open beach and fished mostly alone and set a standard that all who came after him and tried to emulate him could never achieve. He was the best at what he did and set the bar that no one has since been able to achieve. A cold winter nights read that hopefully will draw you back to the place you love so well and will set the dreams of all of us who love it so much as we settle in for that "long winter's nap".



...sounds good already! :bl: