Freshwater Fishing Secrets

by Jay Michael Strangis (editor)

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Genres: Reference

354 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Shel Harrison · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offers a wide variety of freshwater fishing tactics for all of America's favorite game fish. The information presented holds up today even though the book is 30 years old. It was more brief than I would have liked on some species, but other than that I can not recommend the book enough.

[Derek Masterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fishing is great and gives plenty of opportunity to explore all sorts of different species and try to wrangle them out of the water. This book helps explore North American fishing by providing helpful tips and tactics on how to catch different species of fish. The author Jay Michael Strangis brings in many expert anglers to share their own experiences and tricks. As an avid fisherman myself I can personally say that this book is very informative and some of these techniques I have been taught by my father and grandfather. To say this timeless book is still useful today would be an understatement.

I love how each section has one or more different anglers putting in their input with backup credentials. Most of the anglers are introduced with incredible stats of huge fish being caught either by guiding a fishing expedition or by themselves. The book is also well organized by the species of fish you are trying to catch and within the pages are pictured jigs and fishing setups to give a visual look at how these guys are catching hogs. This book takes fishing to science and even at 40 years old, there is lots to learn about the sport.

Although this is more of a sporting book, I would still like to see the preparation of the fish after catching. The book goes into extreme detail about the catching including boat position and how water currents and wind affect the fish. They never even mentioned once how these fish could be prepared for cooking. I know there are many different ways that different people prepare catfish and I would like to know the best way. The only problem even if this information was added the book would be over 500 pages and it's already on the long side for a bunch of anglers who would rather fish than read about fishing.

This book is great for your dedicated fisherman or just for the average fisherman who couldn't catch a fish even in a pay pond. I will preface this by saying it's probably best for someone who has more of a disconnected lifestyle because this read is a little lengthy.

[William Schram · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jay Michael Strangis collects a series of essays on fishing. The first thing to note about this book is that it's from 1990. I don't follow fishing, and I don't go fishing. I don't know how valuable the advice in the book is anymore, or if it only works in the United States and Canada. That's how little I know about fishing.

You might wonder at this point then; why did I read this book at all? Well, sometimes, I walk around the library in sections I haven't gone through yet and pluck a book from the shelves. There aren't any downsides to this. It only takes some time.

Anyway, the book is fascinating to an extent. It organizes the articles by the type of fish they discuss. Throughout the book, you'll see pictures of massive fish with the proud anglers that caught them. I had dreams of catching 60-pound Muskies when I was a boy, but it never happened. I lacked the patience that fishing requires. I didn't like being in the sun all day, and I couldn't swim.

To sum it up, the book is engaging if you are into fishing. It turns the art of angling into a science. Thanks for reading my review, and see you next time.