CT Surfcasters Meeting March 1- tomorrow Janet Messineo
 

late notice- but:

Janet Messineo will be our guest speaker on Wednesday March 1st, 7PM at the Old Memorial Town Hall (8 School Street in Madison, CT). Janet will present a visual guide of the Vinyard, discuss the sport of surfcasting and also some of the women figures within the sport.


“Janet Messineo has lived on Martha’s Vineyard since 1966, and has been fishing the shoreline of the island for more than 35 years. She has written for and been featured in books, magazines, and appeared on television shows. They include Reading the Water, On the Run, New England Stripers,The Big One, An Amazing Story of the Vineyards Derby, Offshore, On The Water, Vineyard Style, Martha’s Vineyard and Edible Vineyard Magazines. She has been featured in articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and a DVD called Feeding the Water. Janet has been a professional taxidermist since graduating from the Pennsylvania Institute of Taxidermy in 1987. She has been the owner of Island Taxidermy and Wildlife Art Studio since that time. She specializes in saltwater fish. Her work has been shown in many art galleries on the Vineyard such as Louisa Gould’s Gallery in Vineyard Haven and The Schrimshaw Gallery in Edgartown. Visit her Gallery on this site to see some of her work. You can purchase some of these beautiful pieces today. Janet would also like to share her years of surfcasting experience from the shores of Martha’s Vineyard with you.”

No charge to get in- will be a good talk.