Sport Fishing Flashback: Covers of the 1980s

By Sport Fishing Staff

Updated: May 15, 2013

A magazine’s cover should holler, “Look at me!!” and when it’s gotten your attention and you’ve read the blurbs, make you want to read the issue. Understandably, a lot of time and thought go into each Sport Fishing cover. We present here a decade’s worth of SF covers. Ultimately, over a three-week period, you’ll get to all SF covers, going back to our first year, 1986. After that, stand by: We’ll be asking you to vote for your favorite SF covers.

FEBRUARY/MARCH 1986Photographer: Larry Dunmire

APRIL/MAY 1986 Photographer: Darrell Jones

JUNE/JULY 1986 Photographer: Unidentified

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1986 Photographer: Darrell Jones

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1986 Photographer: Doug Glascow

DECEMBER/JANUARY 1986 Photographer: Doug Perrine

FEBRUARY/MARCH 1987 Photographer: Forrest Johnson

APRIL/MAY 1987 Photographer: Capt. Rick Gaffney

JUNE/JULY 1987 Photographer: Gilbert van Ryckevorsel

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1987Photographer: Tom King

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1987 Photographer: Unidentified

FEBRUARY/MARCH 1998 Photographer: Pierce Hoover

APRIL/MAY 1988 Photographer: Rick Diaz

JUNE/JULY 1988 Photographer: Sharkbait Productions

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1988Photographer: James Watt

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1988 Photographer: Randy Miller

DECEMBER/JANUARY 1988 Photographer: Darrell Jones

FEBRUARY 1989 Photographer: Darrell Jones

MARCH 1989 Photographer: Darrell Jones

APRIL 1989 Photographer: Howard Hall

MAY 1989 Photographer: Darrell Jones

JUNE/JULY 1989 Photographer: Darrell Jones

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1989Photographer: Gilbert van Ryckevorsel

DECEMBER/JANUARY 1989 Photographer: Darrell Jones

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