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"The bestselling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace. Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as "Billionaire's Mile" and is locked behind a heavy...
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First published in 1653, Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler" is a classic and much-loved treatise on the art of fishing. Immediately popular after its publication, "The Compleat Angler" was reprinted and updated numerous times by Walton. Written as a conversation between the fictional characters of the experienced angler Piscator and his student Viator, which was changed to a hunter named Venator in later editions, the treatise is part an instructional...
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"From the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall, Nelson DeMille's blistering new novel features an exciting new character--US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing...
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Saltwater fishing can be as varied as fishing offshore for big-game billfish with heavy rod and reel, to wading shallow bays with light tackle or the fly rod. The complete book of saltwater fishing covers it all, whether fishing from boats, from shore, from jetties and bridges and more.
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Stackpole Books
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Updated information on tackle, baits, and casting techniques and new photos and knot-tying illustrations. Fishing sandbars, points, jetties, scalloped beaches, and inlets. Species include bluefish, striped bass, red drum, weakfish, spotted sea trout, flounder, sharks. Eric B. Burnley has been fishing along the Atlantic Coast for over fifty years. A freelance outdoor writer and photographer based in Delaware, he also gives fly-fishing seminars and...
6) Coastliners
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Mado has been adrift for too long. After ten years in Paris, she returns to the small island of Le Devin, the home that has haunted her since she left.
Le Devin is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while its more prosperous rival, La Houssinière, lies at her feet. Yet even though you can walk from one to the other in an hour, they are worlds apart. And now Mado is back in Les Salants hoping
...7) Trout bum
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Pruett Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1986]
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English
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Trout Bum is a fresh, contemporary look at fly fishing, and the way of life that grows out ofa passion for it. The people, the places, and the accoutrements that surround the sport make a fishing trip more than a set of tactics and techniques. John Gierach, a serious fisherman with a wry sense of humor, show us just how much more with his fishing stories and a unique look at the fly-fishing lifestyle. Trout Bum is really about why people fish as much...
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Larsen's Outdoor Pub
Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
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Productive bass anglers are those who can relate the facts of fishing to the current conditions. They utilize their knowledge about bass to determine the most effective bait and presentation. Wise anglers study bass and their behavior under various conditions and then apply that information to the on-the-water experience. “Bass Fishing Facts” is a valuable source for thinking fisherman. It details the typical behavior of bass as they feed or don't....
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Burford Books
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[2008]
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English
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Here is a complete, fully illustrated guide to the most versatile and effective saltwater lures ever devised-diamond jigs and bucktails. Expert angler Tom Migdalski details methods for catching striped bass, bluefish, cod, pollock, grouper, yellowtail, salmon, tuna and many other gamefish. He also describes what tackle, to use and how to rig and fish the wide array of diamond jigs and bucktails available to the boat-based saltwater angler. Any boat...
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Lyons & Burford
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines's Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he explores questions that engage most fishermen: What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited...
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Larsen's Outdoor Publishing
Pub. Date
[1990]
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English
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To help the reader better understand how to catch big bass, this book explores productive techniques for trophies. The information is aimed at those fishermen eager to know more about catching large fish on a less-random basis. Larry Larsen is a fisherman/writer who especially enjoys catching and releasing big bass. The author has been fortunate to tally almost 200 largemouth between 5 and 13 pounds and has had two friends lip 15 pound largemouth...
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Originally published in 1942, this Maine classic offers instruction on everything from packing a canoe to stalking a bear. The new edition pairs the original text and nostalgic photographs with twenty-first-century perspective from L.L's great-grandson and Outdoor Channel television host.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1992]
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English
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Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
“Once an angler has become serious about the sport (and 'serious' is the word that's used), he'll never again have enough tackle or enough time to use it. And his nonangling friends and family may never again entirely recognize him, either.” In other words, he (or she) will have entered Gierach territory.
Whether...
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Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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The fishing companion to Tying Small Flies. Instructions and illustrations for tricky casts, including pile, reach, parachute, and downstream-and-across reach. Techniques for dead-drift nymphing, freestyle nymphing, and fishing dry-fly and in-the-film plus how to fish tiny mayflies, Tricos, Pale Morning Duns, midges, microcaddis, terrestrials.
