How to Catch Fish: 52 Lessons from 50 Years of Angling on the Chesapeake

Bay Weekly Sporting Life Columnist

For 16 years, Dennis Doyle led a weekly in-print and on-line fishing seminar, enriched by tall fish- and human-tales, for the 50,000 readers of Bay Weekly newspaper. His columns, regular prize-winners in Maryland, D.C., Delaware Press Association competition, kept real-time and armchair anglers connected to the living waters of our great Chesapeake Bay and aware of the diversity and wonder of the Bay's many aquatic citizens.

An outdoor addict virtually since birth, Doyle has routinely fished, explored, hunted, paddled, cruised, crept, trudged and crawled through Maryland's beautiful Tidewater. In addition to the Chesapeake and many Maryland fresh waters, he has fished and hunted in the states and internationally, to Ascension Bay, the Bahamas, Baja, Turks and Caicos chasing permit, tarpon, bonefish and bonita. He has lived an adventurous and reflective life driven by the pursuit of driven by the pursuit of challenges in the sport of fishing. His dedication to the outdoor life, remarkable powers of retention (aided by his consistently kept log books), disciplined practice of trial and error and fine way with sentences make him an able and reliable teacher.