Fishing category: 1380 books
Working on the Edge
Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1993
No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches...
Casting a Spell
The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Thirty-five million Americans–one in eight–like to go fishing. Fly fishers have always considered themselves the aristocracy of the sport, and a small number of those devotees, a few thousand at most, insist upon using one device in the pursuit of their obsession: a handcrafted split-bamboo fly...
Fishing In Utopia
Sweden And The Future That Disappeared
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
From the 1960s to the 1980s, Sweden was an affluent, egalitarian country envied around the world. Refugees were welcomed, even misfit young Englishmen could find a place there. Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in...
All Fishermen Are Liars
True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Just before Christmas, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lunch and a drink at the Dry Dock, a well-worn watering hole in Portland, Maine. Alden, the captain of Linda's first fishing expedition, has seen his share of mishaps and adventures at sea. When Linda...
50 Years of Hunting and Fishing
The Mis-Adventures of a Guy Who Couldn't Quit Part I
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2000
A truly fascinating, humorous, exciting history and philosophy of hunting and fishing in 11 states, including Alaska, over the past 50 years.
Lake Trout
North America's Greatest Game Fish
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2001
The lake trout is one of the most elusive fish in North America-and one of the most captivating. Based on thirty years of fishing experience, Lake Trout offers an in depth look at this majestic fish including everything from the biology of the fish to the history of the areas surrounding the lakes...
Blood Knots
A Memoir of Fathers, Friendship, and Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A “special and magnetic” memoir of one man’s lifelong love of fishing, the connection between man and nature, and the man who taught him about both (Carl Hiaasen, New York Times–bestselling author).
As a child in the 1960s, young British schoolboy Luke Jennings was fascinated by the...
Astream
American Writers on Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
This marvelous collection features stories from some of America’s finest and most respected writers about one of the world’s most solitary and satisfying sports: fly fishing. For the first time, the stories of thirty-one acclaimed writers including Kim Barnes, Walter Bennett, Russell Chatham,...
by Jim Freda
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Identifies prime fishing locations for all seasons and species in the Garden State, plus what lures, baits and techniques to use.
Fishing Knots
Proven to Work for Light Tackle and Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Precise illustrations demonstrate each step. DVD features Lefty Kreh tying 30 of his favorite knots and reinforcing techniques in the text.
by Ken Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
The definitive field guide to North American saltwater fish-from the absolute authority on sportfishing
Before you head out to the open seas, listen up: Your tackle box is not complete without Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish! Written by one of the foremost experts in sportfishing,...
River Monsters
True Stories of the Ones that Didn't Get Away
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
I’m Jeremy Wade, biologist and fishing detective. For twenty-five years, I’ve explored our planet’s remotest rivers and lakes, hunting for monster-sized fish. It’s become something of an obsession for me. . . .
Called “the greatest angling explorer of his generation” (Independent...
by Zeno Hromin
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Surf Fishing, Collection of Articles by Zeno Hromin
by John E. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Neither rain, sleet, snow, dark of night, 100-degree heat, nor -10 wind chill will prevent John Phillips from crappie fishing. The author has caught crappie through the ice in Minnesota, in the sizzling sun of Florida and in many of the states in between. Phillips has fished with most of the nation’s...