Brook Trout: A Thorough Look at North America's Great Native Trout - It's History, Biology, and Angling Possibilties

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Binding tight, interior clean and bright. Boards in great condition, other than bumping to spine ends. Dj presrved in mylar, not price clipped ($35.00). "smartly written, free of hyperbole, full of obscure historical tidbits, laced with snatches from old diaries and letters, and enticingly informative (from mere clues to gift-horse treats) on how and where to fish for wild brook trout today." - dj flap. 371 pages including bibliography and index. Seller Inventory # 028279

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Synopsis: North America has had a four-hundred-year love affair with the brook trout - Salvelinus fontinalis - its great native trout. And now Nick Karas offers the first major profile of this most beautiful of gamefish. Brook Trout is a thorough look at the history, biology, and angling possibilities of the fish most fishermen affectionately call the brookie. Through the eyes of a trained ichthyologist, Karas explores the brook trout's biology and the events that led to its evolution and distribution. He unravels the controversies surrounding the two largest brook trout ever taken. But the core of this book is the fishery: its past status, current condition, and future. And because the history of brook-trout fishing is inseparable from the history of American fishing, Karas follows the development of the rods, reels, lines, lures, and flies that evolved as anglers continued their fascination with this great gamefish.

About the Author: Nick Karas is the author of a half dozen books for sportsmen, including The Striped Bass, and is the longtime outdoor columnist for New York Newsday.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Brook Trout: A Thorough Look at North ...
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Karas Nick; Sutton, Ed
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine