Bill Akin began fishing in Montauk in 1950 with his father. Over the following decades, he fished the Atlantic coast from St. Thomas, V.I. to St Johns, Newfoundland, and in the Pacific out of Costa Rica and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. He was on the Board of Directors of Wild Oceans, a marine fish conservation organization, from 1995 to 2012. Bill lives year-round in Montauk where he was President of the local environmental organization, Concerned Citizens of Montauk, for ten years and founded the classical concert series Music For Montauk in 1980. Joe Gaviola began fishing with his father in Montauk in the late 1960s and later worked as a local charter boat mate. In subsequent years he won several sportfishing tournaments but now fishes for fun and science. Joe is a twenty-year member of the Montauk Lighthouse Committee and is the current Keeper of the Montauk Lighthouse where he resides. Formerly a local Montauk business owner and Chairman of Suffolk County National Bank, Joe is now a financial adviser with Merrill Lynch.