The Essential Fishing Handbook: 179 Essential Hints

This compact yet comprehensive guide includes all the essential fishing information that novices and lifelong fisherman need, from the best lures and flies to hints for landing a wide range of fresh- and saltwater species.

Gear guide: Get the lowdown on the most recent, old school and high tech gear, what you need and what's not worth the money.

Tips and Tricks: Fresh or salt water, deep sea or the nearby stream, in a boat or on land, find all the top tricks for every setting.

Hook'em: Striper, sea bass, salmon and every species in between, all the need-to-know information per species.


About the Author
Joe Cermele was named Fishing Editor for Field & Stream in 2011. His writing appears monthly in the magazine, he blogs weekly on Field & Stream's website, and also hosts and produces Field & Stream's "Hook Shots," an award-winning web-based fishing show with a punk-rock edge. Cermele has fished all over the country and abroad, but when he's not traveling on assignment, you can find him on his boat chasing tuna and striped bass off the Jersey coast, pitching tubes to smallmouth bass on the Delaware River, or fly fishing for trout in New York's Catskill Mountains.