Fish category: 1105 books
The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Fresh and Salt Water
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Anyone who has spent time on the water knows that fishing success comes down to effective connections—the angler must first ensure that the knot connections throughout the fishing line are sound and appropriate for the task at hand. A failed knot—picture a wind knot tarpon leader made a huge silver...
A Local Pacific Piscatologist
A Lifetime of Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
A Local Pacific Piscatologist: A Lifetime in Fishing tells the stories of a womans lifelong love of fishing. In 1952, Vernona Kay Snookie Fath began recording impressions, lessons, reflections, and catches in a fishing diary that chronicled her angling in the waters around Newport Beach, California....
by John Harper
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
As every fresh branch of investigation in natural history has a tendency to gather around it a rapidly accumulating literature, some explanation may probably be looked for from an author who offers a new contribution to the public. And when, as in the present instance, the writer's intentions are...
The Ocean World
Being a Description of the Sea and its Living Inhabitants (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
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"Our Planet is surrounded by two great oceans," says Dr. Maury, the eminent American savant: "the one visible, the other invisible; one is under foot, the other over head. One entirely envelopes it, the other covers about two-thirds of its surface." It is proposed in...
Fire in the Sea
Bioluminescence and Henry Compton's Art of the Deep
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet’s strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry “Hank” Compton (1928–2005) of the Texas Parks...
Inventing Montana
Dispatches from the Madison Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Every summer for two decades, Ted Leeson and a maverick group of close companions have returned to an old ranch house on the benchland overlooking the Madison River. Trout and fly fishing may be at the heart of their ritual return, but their experience goes far beyond the fishing. Leeson contemplates...
Fly Fishing Shasta Lake
An excerpt from Fly Fishing California
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Fly Fishing Shasta Lake is an excerpt from the larger book Fly Fishing California by Ken Hanley, available in print and ebook, covering 64 waters including small streams, large rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and coastal areas. Detailed maps, photographs, and Ken Hanley's experience guide you through the...
Food Power from the Sea
The Seaweed Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Subtitled The Seaweed Story, this book by one of the great minds of eco-agriculture explains how we can produce our food by using seaweed and fish-based inputs rather than wasteful and unsustainable chemical fertilizers. Fryer and Simmons tell how growers can harness the sea's energy to extend...
by Oscar Marks
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Written by an expert outfitter with boots in its waters, this piece includes a detailed map with access points along the river, information about gear, seasonal hatches, local lodges, fly shops, restaurants, watering holes, and closest medical care, along with the sort of intimate, insider information only someone working on the river can share.
Fly Fishing the Conejos River
An Excerpt from Fly Fishing Colorado
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Fly Fishing the Conejos River is an excerpt from the larger book Fly Fishing Colorado by Jackson Streit.
by Greg Bostater
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Written by an expert outfitter with boots in its waters, this piece includes a detailed map with access points along the river, information about gear, seasonal hatches, local lodges, fly shops, restaurants, watering holes, and closest medical care, along with the sort of intimate, insider information only someone working on the river can share.
by Ray Bergman
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Much new material has been added to this revised edition. This covers angling experiences, methods of fishing, flies, lures, lines, leaders and other things. When Trout was first published spinning had not been introduced in the United States. Since that time it has become very popular and I took...
Singing Whales and Flying Squid
The Discovery Of Marine Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Two-thirds of this planet is covered by water inhabited by an incredible variety of living organisms, ranging in size from microbe to whale, and in abundance from scarce to uncountable. Whales and dolphins must surface to breathe, and some fishes occupy surface waters and can easily be seen from boats...
by M. Scotty Lamkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
For author M. Scotty Lamkin, a conventional lifestyle at a traditional job was a horribly mundane way to approach life. On January 16, 1979, he arrived in Alaska with fifty dollars in his pocket, two duffel bags, and a backpack. A long way from his Kentucky homeland, Lamkin journeyed to Alaska expecting...