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Inside the Dangerous, Secretive World of Extreme Fishing - The Atlantic

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Why I swim out into rough seas 80 nights a year to hunt for striped bass

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 28:21 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The wave comes , throat-high and hungry. The last thing I see before it sweeps me off the rock and into the ocean is a man in a wetsuit leaning his shoulder into a wall of water. When we swam out here around 2 a.m. and hoisted ourselves onto the algae-slick face of a boulder, he had warned me: “If you go in here, it won’t be fun.” And he was right. Explore the October 2024 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More I manage to keep hol

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