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Saltwater Fishing Made Easy is your one-stop guide for saltwater fishing in North America.

Whether you’re an experienced angler looking to improve your skills or a beginner just discovering the joys of saltwater fishing, this authoritative guide will help you bring in bigger and better fish every time you cast your line. Saltwater Fishing Made Easy is your all-in-one resource for fishing methods and techniques, tackle and bait, and, most important, the fish themselves. Before you go on your next fishing excursion, make sure this book is in your tackle box. Inside you will learn:

Every method and technique of saltwater fishing: surf casting, fly fishing, jigging, trolling, chumming, and more
What you need to know about more than 75 popular game fish found on the North American coasts, including feeding habits, preferred environments, and the best techniques for catching them
Basic equipment, from rods and reels to bait and boats
Step-by-step instructions for tying the 13 most useful fishing knots
Proper techniques for cleaning, scaling, and filleting your catch
Helpful advice in legal, ethical, and safety issues

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Your one-stop guide for saltwater fishing in North America

Whether you’re an experienced angler looking to improve your skills or a beginner just discovering the joys of saltwater fishing, this authoritative guide will help you bring in bigger and better fish every time you cast your line. Saltwater Fishing Made Easy is your all-in-one resource for fishing methods and techniques, tackle and bait, and, most important, the fish themselves. Before you go on your next fishing excursion, make sure this book is in your tackle box. Inside you will learn:

Every method and technique of saltwater fishing: surf casting, fly fishing, jigging, trolling, chumming, and more
What you need to know about more than 75 popular game fish found on the North American coasts, including feeding habits, preferred environments, and the best techniques for catching them
Basic equipment, from rods and reels to bait and boats
Step-by-step instructions for tying the 13 most useful fishing knots
Proper techniques for cleaning, scaling, and filleting your catch
Helpful advice in legal, ethical, and safety issues
Martin Pollizotto has fished America’s three coasts for more than forty years, and for five years wrote a monthly column on saltwater fishing for a local U.S. Power Squadrons division.

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Completely Revised and Updated with Over 400 New Color Photos and Illustrations buy it now.

North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters buy it now.

IN-FISHERMAN BAITS, RIGS AND TACKLE BOOK – BRT buy it now.

Fish Without a Doubt: The Cook’s Essential Companion buy it now.

What Fish Don’t Want You to Know: An Insider’s Guide to Freshwater Fishing buy it now.

Fish Without a Doubt: The Cook’s Essential Companion is a wonderful cookbook! The contents include cooking methods and recipes, but I find the sections such as how to buy fish, detailed descriptions of various fishes, and which fish to avoid, equally useful. Somehow this author had taken the mystery out of cooking fish, and the results of his recipes are very good. I’ve owned hundreds of cookbooks, many of which are no longer on my shelves. This one is a keeper.
Fish Without a Doubt: The Cook’s Essential Companion buy it now.

North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters Sig Hansen has been a star of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch from the pilot to the present. Seen in over 150 countries, the show attracts more than 49 million viewers per season, making it one of the most successful series in the history of cable TV. With its daredevil camera work, unpredictably dangerous weather, and a setting as unforgivable and unforgettable as the frigid Bering Sea, The Deadliest Catch is unlike anything else on television.

But the weatherworn fishermen of the fishing vessel Northwestern have stories that don’t come through on TV. For Sig Hansen and his brothers, commercial fishing is as much a part of their Norwegian heritage as their names. Descendents of the Vikings who roamed and ruled the northern seas for centuries, the Hansens’ connection to the sea stretches from Alaska to Seattle and all the way to Norway. And after twenty years as a skipper on the commercial fishing vessel the Northwestern–which was his father’s before him–Sig has lived to tell the tales.

To be a successful fisherman, you need to be a mechanic, navigator, welder, painter, carpenter, and sometimes, a firefighter. To be a successful fisherman year after year, you need to be a survivor.

This is the story of a family of survivors; part memoir and part adventure tale, North By Northwestern brings readers on deck, into the dockside bars and into the history of a family with a common destiny. Built around a gripping tale of a deadly shipwreck like The Perfect Storm, North By Northwestern is the multi-generational tale of the Hansen family, a clan of tough Norwegian-American fishermen who, through the popularity of The Deadliest Catch, have become modern folk-heroes.

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide is the new edition of one of the best books for introducing anyone to the sport of fly fishing, whether the angler wants to shop for equipment at Orvis or Wal-Mart. The information is clearly explained without going into tedious details that novices (and experienced anglers) don’t want. Everything is covered here–from rod types to fly lines to casting basics. The excellent graphics are helpful–especially of the knots. Some books have knot instructions that are impossible to follow–”knot” so here! For someone who wants to start fly fishing, this book would make a great start.

Baits, Rigs & Tackle is handy to have around or in your tackle box. It gives great information on baits and rigs. The illustrations are very good and the advice is sound. I recommend it for all to have as a reference book. It is a great purchase for the fisherman who is just getting started or for a gift for that aspiring fisherman who needs or desires information on a wide variety of setups and general techniques.