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The San Diego Anglers
Are Proud to Present…
Joel Stewart
Portugese Hall
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
2818 Avenida De Portugal
San Diego, CA 92106

On the corner of Shelter Island Dr. & Shafter St.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m.

Special Guest: Joel Stewart

Captain Joel Stewart grew up in Great Falls Montana where he was immersed in an outdoors culture. He learned to fish about the time he learned to walk, began to tie flies at age 6, and was tying commercially at 8. As a teenager, he worked summers in a tackle store and winters in a taxidermy studio. He spent one summer as a custom fly rod builder’s apprentice. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the Navy in 1985, to earn money for college. At that time, it was join the service or become a trout bum. Though he took the high ground and remains on active duty, he often wonders how the trout bum plan would have worked out. His career in the Navy has allowed him to fish on six continents and catch dozens of species of fish, mostly on a fly rod but he is proficient with conventional tackle too. He is a self-professed C4 fisherman in that he fishes for anything he can, where ever he can, whenever he can, however he can. He served in Iraq in 2005 and founded the Baghdad Angler’s Club and School of Fly Fishing. He has published numerous articles on fly fishing and wrote the book, A Fly Rod in My Sea Bag, about his time in Iraq and the club he started up to support service men and women far from home. In service to our country, he has spent 38 years in uniform, 22 of those years at sea, including command of the amphibious transport dock ship, USS ANCHORAGE (LPD 23) and Maritime Prepositioning Squadron TWO. He remains on active duty and is currently Commodore of Naval Beach Group ONE in Coronado California.