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Maximum Salmon: Fishing in the West Coast from Alaska to California
Maximum Salmon Fishing in the West Coast from Alaska to California Author:D. C. Reid This complete guide to salmon angling has one purpose: to help anglers catch more salmon than ever before. Focusing exclusively on salmon angling technique, Dennis Colin Reid outlines essential strategies for angling along the entire west coast of North America-from Alaska to California. Maximum Salmon presents the gear, tackle, techniques an... more »d essential knowledge of salmon behavior that transform average salmon fishing into maximum salmon fishing. Anglers will learn the nitty-gritty of rigging information crucial to success, along with recommendations on specific brands. They'll discover specific fly patterns, hootchies, plugs, apexes, spoons, bait heads and drift fishing lures. They'll be introduced to techniques they may not yet have tried but ought to: the stop-and-go ballet that is power mooching; streamer stripping on the open Pacific; the delicate sunk, skated, swung and dead drifted fresh-water fly tactics; and the baitcaster and open-faced spinning techniques for bait and artificials. All major salt- and fresh-water techniques are presented in clear, precise language along with accompanying diagrams and photographs. Readers will be armed to catch fish anywhere, be it Kings in the Kenai, sockeye in the Somass or "hoggs" in the Tillamook. This easy-to-follow and comprehensive guide to salmon fishing is the only book anglers will need to catch maximum salmon.« less