Jeff Weakley, the 32-year-old editor of Florida Sportsman, has fished nearly every mile of Sunshine State coastline, from Fernandina to the Dry Tortugas, all the way around the Gulf of Mexico to the Alabama state line. And back again. And again.

For that matter, Jeff has scoured every inch of Alabama coast, having spent his teenage years in the port city of Mobile. His passport is inked with stamps from the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Belize and Caribbean islands--and those were just work days. On vacations, he’s hiked hundreds of miles of Blue Ridge trout streams, fished Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico and a dozen other states.

He currently resides on the Treasure Coast of Florida, where he chases snook, trout and reds on the Indian River. He runs a 19-foot skiff, a 16-foot canoe and a well-worn pair of neoprene wading boots.

Jeff is a founding editor of Shallow Water Angler magazine, an offshoot of Florida Sportsman, where he has been employed since graduating from Stetson University with an English degree in 1995. He has penned hundreds of how-to magazine articles on subjects ranging from fly fishing for snook to trolling for wahoo.

In his spare time, he surfs, reads books and plays slide guitar. He is happily married eight years to a woman who tolerates 4 a.m. wakeups and fish scales in the kitchen sink.