Salt Water Fishing: A Step-by-step Handbook - Softcover

Martin Ford; Bruce Vaughan

9781844763030: Salt Water Fishing: A Step-by-step Handbook

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184476303X ISBN 13: 9781844763030

Publisher: Southwater, 2006

This title contains expert advice, tips and guidance for shore fishing and fishing from boats. It offers a visual guide to the major species you want to fish for, with information on habitat and location, size, behaviour and top tips for catching the best and biggest. It includes more than 200 step-by-step colour photographs and 36 illustrations. It contains detailed illustrated sections on the preparation, use and suitability of natural and artificial baits and lures. This book is a comprehensive introduction to sea fishing of all types. The book opens with a visual guide and information about the major species of salt-water fish that the angler is likely to encounter, including cod, whiting, bass, flounder, ray, pollack, plaice, shark, skate, turbot and mackerel. There is helpful advice on recognition, size potential, behaviour and feeding habits, as well as tackle and baits, and of course, the main objective: how to catch them! This is an essential and informative reference book, instruction manual and visual resource, written and designed to increase every angler's enjoyment, both as an essential and reliable practical handbook for all new fisherman, but also as a source of professional-level knowledge and wisdom to increase the satisfaction and success of even the most experienced anglers.

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About the Author:

Martin Ford has been a keen sea angler for the past 30 years. He has caught many different species of sea fish, including double-figure bass. An accomplished sea angler from both shore and boat, he is active on the sea angling circuit and has competed in several major competitions. Martin is a full-time angling journalist and the author of Fishing Flies (Lorenz Books). Consultant, Bruce Vaughan is a regular contributor to various magazines, including Trout Fisherman and Trout and Salmon.

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