Missed The Boat

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Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:55:06 +0000
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By Vincent Bini

Sometimes I wish I’d been born earlier. Not because I romanticize the past—I know it wasn’t all glossy black water and cooperative tarpon—but because there was a time when the fish were many and the anglers were few. I missed that window by just enough to know what I lost.

I’ve watched the fishing world transform in real time. Social media, GoPros, instant everything. You get a peek into someone’s life from thousands of miles away, in real time, while the guy standing next...