Some of the best salt-water fishing fiction ever written. Captain "Crunch" and his First Mate "Des" pilot the charter boat "Poseidon" out of the Miami Beach blue-water docks with various charters in search of the denizens of the Gulf Stream. Comedy, pathos, and adventure ensue.

Jason Arnold is an award-winning Florida-based photographer and director. A third-generation commercial fisherman, Arnold learned to respect marine wildlife at a very young age. His passion for the sea continued as he spent his formative years as a professional surfer.

Gamble was an American folk artist musician and storyteller known for the recurring theme in his songs and stories about characters and places in a fictional Florida county. He was a 1998 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

Elizabeth Bishop was born on February 8, 1911, in Worcester, Massachusetts. When she was less than a year old, her father died, and shortly thereafter, her mother was committed to an asylum. Bishop was first sent to live with her maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia and later lived with paternal relatives in Worcester and South Boston. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1934.

New York's most infamous jewel thief, Jack Roland Murphy, aka "Murf the Surf."