A true native of Tuckerton, carpenter-carver-fisherman Alfie Stevens was born on Cedar Street and has lived on Cedar Street all his 83 years. As long as he’s been fishing, he’s been making his own lures.
Growing up, he always hunted and fished with his father, a clammer.
“At 10 years old, I was out in the bay, myself, treading for clams to help pay for my school clothes,” he said. When they couldn’t fish, they would pick and sell pine cones, he added.
Stevens served six years in the Air Force, and when he got out in ’67 he built his current house.
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