For the last two decades, Capt. McMurray has been the owner and primary operator of ONE MORE CAST CHARTERS, INC. He runs trips on both the skiffs and the Contenders, pretty much every day the weather allows, from mid-April through December – with the notable exception of every other Sunday, which he sets aside to take his son and his friends fishing (AKA “Bro-day”).
As is the case with any small business owner he is the chief maintenance officer, booking agent, mechanic, electrician, accountant etc.
And yes, we know that Capt. McMurray looks like Thanos.
Background
After obtaining an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Loyola College in Maryland, Captain McMurray served in the US Coast Guard as a small-boat coxswain and marine-fisheries law enforcement officer. For a few years after that, he was the Executive Director of the Coastal Conservation Association New York, a non-profit recreational fishing conservation and advocacy group.
For 16 years, Capt. McMurray served as the Director of Grants Programs at the Norcross Wildlife Foundation in New York, which had distributed over $20 million in conservation grants, much of it directly targeted for protection of marine fish and habitat.
Capt. McMurray is a well known and well published outdoor writer, notable for his work on fisheries conservation issues. He wrote the Resource Column for Flyfishing in Saltwaters for 8 years,and for 7 years wrote the NY/NJ Fishwire at Reel-Time.com. For well over a decade he’s been a regular contributor to Saltwater Sportsman and Sport Fishing Magazine, and has had feature articles and/or photography published in On The Water, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Tide Magazine, Nor’east Saltwater, Newsday and the New York Times. He also wrote a weekly conservation blog for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Reel-Time.com, and currently writes one for the Marine Fish Conservation Network.
For 6 years Capt. McMurray served as a Legislative Proxy the Altantic States Marine Fisheries Commission for NY State Senator Todd Kaminsky . From 2008 to 2017 he served as New York’s recreational representative on Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council.
He was also one of the founders and served as the President of the American Saltwater Guides Association – a coalition of professional fishing guides promoting “better business though conservation“.
Contact
You can contact Capt. McMurray via email at john@nyctuna.com or via cell phone at 718 791-2094.
