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Welcome to “Old Salts Rule!” This feature showcases veteran captains to gain insight, share stories and laughs from those that have made a long fulfilling career as a professional. Follow the series from the beginning...

Captain Mike Merritt— 2018 June issue

Captain Chip Shafer— 2018 July/August issue

Captain Buddy Hooper— 2018 September issue

Captain Sam Crutchfield—2018 October/November issue

Captain Bouncer Smith—2018 December issue

Captain Ann Johnston—2019 January/February issue

Captain Jack Morrow—2019 March issue

Captain Paul Ivey—2019 April/May issue

Captain Phil Dulanie—December 2019 issue

Captain Kerwin Masunaga—December 2019 issue

Captain Peter B. Wright—January/February 2020 issue

Captain Gary Stuve—March 2020 issue

Captain Billy Borer—July/August 2020 issue

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Captain Jimmy Loveland—An Industry Mover and Shaker

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Captain Jimmy Loveland. Courtesy Richard Gibson

By Carol M. Bareuther, RD

The first time I met Captain Jimmy Loveland was in the late 1980s. His brother Stewart, asked me to write a press release announcing the upcoming USVI Open/Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament (ABMT), better known as the ‘Boy Scout’ tournament for its chief beneficiary at the time. What I thought would be a short straightforward fact-finding interview with Jimmy as we sat at the head of ‘A’ Dock in Red Hook, St. Thomas, turned into a four-plus hour education on the tournament’s rules. Not IGFA rules.

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Captain Sam Crutchfield—Singer, Songwriter, Angler

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By Dale Wills

Singer, songwriter, newspaper columnist, book author, duck hunter and longtime captain, Sam Crutchfield can catch most anything that swims in fresh or salt water. Were that not enough, Capt. Sam is also proficient in Morse code and was bitten by an alligator while wade fishing for bass in a Florida lake. Captain Sam Crutchfield is an outdoorsman in every sense of the word. When speaking with Sam you could hear about most anything—a play by play story of a big blue off Walker’s Cay or about any number of adventures in Florida or the Caribbean. Today you can still find Capt. Sam at his local boat ramp fishing in the Indian River Lagoon and along the Treasure Coast beaches almost every morning. “You can never get a missed day of fishing back,” he says gently.

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Captain Peter B. — The One and Only

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group of men in back of boat standing for a photo

Stuart Campbell (in chair) signed this photo captioning it the “Reel” Dream Team. On March 20, 1995 in North Carolina with Stuart Campbell on the rod and Peter B. at the helm, the team caught 73 bluefin. Peter B. is pictured in the lower right. (L-R) Charles Perry, Gary Stuve, John Rafter, and Charlie “Split Tail Charlie” Hayden.

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