HOME AGAIN - ANGLINGwithALLEY
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DICK ALLEY
HANGING IN! I''m in my mid-80s now, a former Westport Police Officer, who retired in 1986 to pursue a second career writing about the outdoors, mainly fishing.
I don't fish as much now but still love to write and share fish stories from past and present. Over the past half-century, I've published thousands of stories and fishing columns. I started in the Westport Town Crier back in the mid-60's. Over the years, I authored columns in the Westport News, the Norwalk News,The Hour, the New Haven Register and the New England Fisherman magazine. Salt Water Sportsman, Outdoor Life and other regional magazines accepted and published several stories over the years. I self-published several fishing guides on Fairfield County fishing spots and added a small booklet on fishing the Saugatuck River. Twenty years ago, I moved to upstate Connecticut and went back to fishing the many rivers, lakes and ponds in northeast Connecticut..
Over the last several years , the print publishing business faded badly and fishing columns in the newspapers dried up. My last column in the Norwalk Hour was three years ago, after Hearst took over the paper. I tried a few different internet blogs but was content to share them with a few friends and family.
Last summer, our children and grandchildren started working on us to move back downstate and two days before Christmas, we moved into our wonderful new home at THE SAUGATUCK.
One of the most attractive incentives to making the move was the opportunity to return to my old haunts,, look up old friends and colleagues, to fish-- and to write about fishing once again. Hence my latest Blog with an old familiar name .
This blog will incorporate many of the stories and photos of the past couple of decades. Many friends who have passed are featured in those stories, but we are also planning to write about the here and now.
This current Coronavirus is eliminating many every day fun activities. Fishing is something we can do in solitary without danger. There are wrinkles but hopefully as conditions improve, they will be resolved.
For example, right now, access to Town Beaches is a problem. Hopefully by the time the stripers start biting, there will be parking access to the beaches where well-spaced anglers can enjoy their sport.
The State has already recognized the feasibility of fishing as an acceptable activity by opening our lakes, ponds and rivers two weeks ahead of the regular opening day.
We'll be reporting on all manner of fishing information in the days and weeks ahead. I have more than 60 years of the fishing game on file and am happy to share it. Just a little bit of payback to all my readers and fishing fans who supported me through the years.
Dick Alley
Over the last several years , the print publishing business faded badly and fishing columns in the newspapers dried up. My last column in the Norwalk Hour was three years ago, after Hearst took over the paper. I tried a few different internet blogs but was content to share them with a few friends and family.
Last summer, our children and grandchildren started working on us to move back downstate and two days before Christmas, we moved into our wonderful new home at THE SAUGATUCK.
One of the most attractive incentives to making the move was the opportunity to return to my old haunts,, look up old friends and colleagues, to fish-- and to write about fishing once again. Hence my latest Blog with an old familiar name .
ANGLINGwithALLEY
This blog will incorporate many of the stories and photos of the past couple of decades. Many friends who have passed are featured in those stories, but we are also planning to write about the here and now.
This current Coronavirus is eliminating many every day fun activities. Fishing is something we can do in solitary without danger. There are wrinkles but hopefully as conditions improve, they will be resolved.
For example, right now, access to Town Beaches is a problem. Hopefully by the time the stripers start biting, there will be parking access to the beaches where well-spaced anglers can enjoy their sport.
The State has already recognized the feasibility of fishing as an acceptable activity by opening our lakes, ponds and rivers two weeks ahead of the regular opening day.
We'll be reporting on all manner of fishing information in the days and weeks ahead. I have more than 60 years of the fishing game on file and am happy to share it. Just a little bit of payback to all my readers and fishing fans who supported me through the years.
Dick Alley
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