John McCoy ready to stop writing and start fishing By
July 5, 2021 - 12:02 am
John McCoy, Outdoors Editor at the Charleston Gazette-Mail works on his final feature story for the paper on a DNR patrol boat on the Kanawha River.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. The man who has chronicled every development in West Virginia’s outdoors for more than four decades is ready to put down the pen, pad, and camera and pick up his fishing rod. John McCoy, the longtime outdoors editor for Charleston’s newspapers, posted his last column and story over the weekend.
“It’s been 42 years since I started as a freelancer with the Daily Mail. I went full time with the Daily Mail in 1988 then to the Gazette and then to the Gazette-Mail. Forty-two years is long enough, it’s time to go fishing,” McCoy said in a recent conversation on West Virginia Outdoors.