Martha's Vineyard Fish Tales (eBook)

How to Catch Fish, Rake Clams, and Jig Squid, with Entertaining Tales About the Sometimes Crazy Pursuit of Fish

Nelson Sigelman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
240 Seiten
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-6805-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This informative and fun read is a “how to” book that flows with the character and personality of the fishing-obsessed island off the coast of Massachusetts. The focus is on Martha’s Vineyard but the information, fishing tips, and stories about island characters will sound familiar to anyone who has spent time in a community of fishermen.

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The focus is on Martha's Vineyard but the information, fishing tips, and stories about Island charactersBob ';Hawkeye' Jacobs jumping off Memorial Wharf to unsnag an albie he hookedwill sound familiar to anyone who has spent time in a community of fishermen.This informative and fun read answers the questions asked in local tackle shops, including the best spots to catch a striped bass on a fly rodLobsterville Beachand rigging tackle for blues, fluke, black sea bass, false albacore, and bonito. Spin fishing, bottom fishing, and fly fishing are all covered.This book follows the island fishing seasons: rods appear on island trucks in April, a sign that schoolies have arrived, and they do not begin to disappear until the venerable Bass and Bluefish Derby, five weeks of single-minded pursuit of fish, ends in October. And there are tips on looking and talking the part . . . ';handy phrases include any reference to a falling or rising tide and a rock, any rock, as long as you refer to it with a sense of authority so that the other person is unwilling to ask which rock for fear of seeming like a novice.'Martha's Vineyard Fish Tales is a ';how to' book that flows with the character and personality of a fishing-obsessed island off the coast of Massachusetts.

Autor

Nelson Sigelman worked for 27 years at The Martha’s Vineyard Times, an award winning weekly newspaper, where he was a reporter, news editor, and from 2014 to October 2016, editor. He has won numerous writing awards from the New England Press Association, The New England Outdoor Writers Association (NEOWA), and the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA). In April 2017, he received first and second place awards in the annual NEOWA competition for a story about the harmful effects of impoundments along the Mill Brook and a column about fulfilling his longtime goal of taking a deer with a flintlock rifle. In 1996, he won the Derby Shore Fly Rod striped bass division, and he holds the Derby Fly Rod bonito record. In 2012, he was inducted into the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby Hall of Fame. He lives on Martha’s Vineyard.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 148 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 146 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: clams • Fishing • Gone Fishin' • island fishing • martha's vineyard • Martha's Vineyard Times • Nelson Sigelman • New England • New England fishing • SQUID • The Derby
• ISBN-10: 0-8117-6805-8 / 0811768058
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8117-6805-4 / 9780811768054