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Tales of life on the water rival Hollywood’s
dabbling in a podcast.
Savene grew up in Flushing, Queens, where some of the kids on his block had a lemonade stand. He had a fish stand. Obsessed with fishing since he was a kid, he would hide fishing line in his locker at Holy Cross High School to go fishing after school in Flushing Meadow Lake. His mother, distraught by what he brought home, would say to him, “What are you going to do with all these fish. We can’t eat all these fish.”
So he started selling fish, in St.
Albans and other neighborhoods.
In 1987, when he was up to his ears in fish and couldn’t sell all he was catching, a friend said to him, “You’re so good at catching these fish, and you’re a pretty sociable guy. Why don’t you start chartering?” Savene liked the idea, and after he took some Newsday reporters out on his boat, his business was booming. He moved to Island Park in 2003 to be closer to G&T Marina in Oceanside, where No Time is docked.
Savene is all about teaching each generation the technique — and the thrill — of fishing. “I get no more satis-