[DROPCAP]W[/DROPCAP]e are psyched. After a full year of planning, months of writing and insight on the ever-changing rules and selling ads, weeks spent on distribution and strategy, you are holding in your hands the first issue of Coastal Angler Magazine’s brand-new Long Island Edition! The pages you hold in your hands represent the first pass over promising new ground for anglers, outdoor enthusiasts, and businesses which depend on the coast. Long Island readers join almost 600,000 readers nationwide in having their own local Coastal Angler.
What can you expect? Expect it all. National pictures, fish-stories, how-to’s, bucket lists and news from some of the finest fishing reporters and writers in the world. Rock stars like Mark Sosin and Bob Bowman are regular columnists. They bring you stories and tourney info from around the country and around the world, along with insight on making your time on the water count.
Locally, you can expect the best of our “master of the fish-geist,” Zach Harvey. Zach heads up our local reporting and it is his job to work with the captains, anglers, locals – from the Nassau border in the West to the tip of Montauk, including Shelter Island (where I grew up) and Orient, in the East. He’ll be covering the Canyons and shared waters with Rhode Island, and the South where we share waters with with New Jersey fishermen, as well as publishing weekly fishing reports in season and sharing insight on the ever-changing rules and regs, movement of the fish, and general prognostications.
One of my favorite sections in our local Coastal Angler? Sea-to-Table. Every month I’ll interview one of our hot, local chefs to bring you awesome recipes for Long Island’s world class seafood. My colleague Julia Molino and I will have a blast discovering how these chefs work with delicacies from – are you ready – porgies to sea robins. Sometimes we go mainstream with fluke and cod, but we like it local, sustainable and different. Along with recipes, wine tastings and beer tastings, we’ll bring you background on the featured fish and seafood and its impact on our local economy. You will never, and I mean ever, see a recipe for tilapia in our pages.
We’ll profile local charter captains, marinas, boat builders and brokers, and other small businesses which keep our economy moving forward. We’ll question some of the projects that are coming to our shores – how do you feel about windpower? We think the jury is adjourned on whether it is coming, it is. The bigger issue is, “who gets the jobs?” Can the companies bringing these windmills to our waters import their workers from Europe or can our captains get a needed boost by being first in line to maintain the windmills? Important questions that can bring needed, high-paying jobs to the Long Island marine economy.
And what is coming soon? Our website, www.coastalanglermag.com/longisland will launch in April. Soon to follow will be Boldwater TV, our closed-circuit, in-house channel for your favorite watering hole or marina. Content is high-impact, fast moving, fishing, diving, surfing, scurfing, sailing and more from Long Island and around the world. Stay tuned for that launch date!
Our team also includes Captain Tom Kampa of Manhasset who will be in charge of advertising sales and content marketing for all Coastal Angler platforms and Boldwater TV in Nassau County, and his counterpart David Eisenberg of Southold who will do the same for Suffolk County. We’ve been working with Dave and Tom for about 6 months during the build-up to launch; they will be great assets to their clients. Both are active and respected in their communities, knowledgeable and have powerful tools at their disposal. In addition to their knowledge of the advertising platforms and markets they serve, they work with Bob McInnis (formerly of Newsday, now with his own consulting firm in Greenport) and Lauren Zimmer to develop results-based advertising for you at no cost over your ad space. Also, they have access to a concierge coop service, again at no expense to advertisers, which will relieve you of the paperwork to determine access and use coop dollars. If we create an ad for you under your coop program, and you are denied reimbursement, you don’t pay! Send inquiries to TomK@coastalanglermagazine.com or DavidE@ coastalanglermagazine.com.
You, our reader, will play a significant role in what comes next. If you have feedback of any kind – good, bad, irate, overjoyed, overwhelmed, underwhelmed or indifferent – please fire away. You make yourself heard by zapping a quick note to us, signing on to our facebook page (www.facebook. com/CoastalAnglerMagazineLongIsland) or Twitter at CoastalAnglerLI.
If you can’t find a copy of your local Coastal Angler at your favorite watering hole, marina, bait and tackle or sports store let them know and let us know. We’re happy to add them to our distribution list. And best of all – it’s free. Never a charge to you or our distributors!
We are humbled and proud to bring you this first issue of Coastal Angler Magazine Long Island, and look forward to hearing from you.
Tight Lines,
Mike and Lisa Danforth,
Owners and Publishers
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