Captain Tasos

Tasos was born in 1931 and started fishing at eight years old, in 1939. He worked this same stretch of water for the rest of his life, learned where the fish sit in every season, and passed all of it to his son.

His son Alex grew up on that boat. In 2015 he started taking visitors out on it, the first fishing trips anyone offered on the island of Kos, twice a day from the same quay and over the same ground his father worked. The rods are better now and Tasos is no longer with us. What has not changed is who is on board: a family that fishes, not a company that sells tickets.