Skinny: How to Catch Fish in Shallow SaltwaterAuthor: Mel Berman
ISBN: 978-1-936201-00-6
Page Count: 228
Pub. Date: 11/15/2009
Price: $19.99 |
A unique combination of How-To instructions, interviews, and articles written over the years by local (West Central Florida) celebrity, fishing radio talk-show host, and writer Captain Mel Berman, Skinny: How to Fish in Shallow Saltwater covers the basics of successfully finding, targeting, catching, and releasing (or eating) the many sports fish that populate the Tampa Bay and surrounding waters:
Learn the importance of structure. Visible stucture such as mangrove edges, sea walls, bridges, grass flats, and oyster bars aren’t the only place you’ll find predators waiting for baitfish.
Learn to fish where the fish are: different species populate different areas and environments at different times of the day, year, and tide. Learn where they’re likely to be and when.
Understand what comprises a “fishing ready” tackle box. You can have rooms full of gear and still not be using three or four basic rods to maximize your time on the water. Learn about various types of rods and how they work.
Based on more than fifty years of fishing local waters, share with the authors knowledge of positioning your boat, properly using anchors, and how to take advantage of structure to fish in the sun and wind.
Understand the concept of catching bait; how to use Pelicans and local conditions to find bait like pilchard sardines and threadfin herring.
Learn about castnets. See how to load and throw a cast net, and how to use the bait you catch as chum.
Become familiar with the species you’re likely to encounter; how to recognize their behavior, how to set the hook, how to fight them, and what to do with them in order to release them safely.
Try more than 24 recipes taken from amateur and professional fishers – and their spouses and family members – that will make eating your catch something new and exciting.
Learn to use your computer to improve your odds. Specifically, see the power of communities like CapMel.com’s forums, emails and discussions, and how to use GoogleEarth to improve your chances of catching the target species you want to find.
Providing full color illustrations and a wealth of stories, instructions, and information gathered over the years, Skinny: How to Fish in Shallow Saltwater was written with the “newbie” in mind – but can even prove valuable to the hardened veteran of fishing skinny saltwater. Although written for the Gulf of Mexico, the book will teach you how to catch fish in Mozambique as well as you can in Galveston or Tampa Bay.
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