Al Quattrocchi (Qman) originally from Brooklyn where he developed his love for saltwater fishing early in his childhood while living in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Sheepshead Bay once hosted the largest commercial sport fishing fleet operating on the eastern coast of the U.S. As a teen, Al spent his formative saltwater fishing years on party boats, piers, bridges, beaches and jetties around Sheepshead Bay, Breezy Point, Rockaway and Jamaica Bay chasing striped bass, bluefish, weakfish and fluke.
After moving to California in the late seventies to attend LMU, he was inspired to switch to the fly rod and begin fly fishing the surf after years of reading articles written by his east coast fly fishing luminaries; Joe Brooks, Lefty Kreh, Frank Woolner, Nick Curcione, Bob Popovics and Lou Tabory.
Qman’s articles and fly patterns have been published in Fly Fishing in Saltwaters, Fly Tier, CA Fly Fisher and Saltwater Fly Fishing magazines and has recently joined the team at TFFM. His podcast with Articulate Fly is featured below.
Give it a listen.
Check out his new book, the Corbina Diaries by clicking the photo
