Profiles in Saltwater Angling

The first edition came out way back in 1973, This is a new second edition just hitting the shelves.

What a fabulous book! It covers some of the greatest anglers that have lived and are still living. Those that have left their soul on fishing as a sport, enhanced it with innovative ideas, blessed it with a knowledge that can only come from actual experience, and inspired others to do as they did.

This is a book for anglers who care for the sport deeper than most. The ones who, if questioned, Is it the family or fishing that really matters?, then they ask for time to think it over.

You can read about Zane Grey, Harlon Major, Frank Woolner, Hemmingway, Kip Farrington, Michael Lerner, Tommy Gifford, Lefty Kreh, Boyd Pfeiffer and many more. If you don't know who these guys are, then you should. If you fish for big fish offshore or onshore, then their legacy lives on in you and you owe them deeply.

There are chapters on each. You gain a little insight in to their characters and come to understand what motivated them. But it's backed up by facts of particular fish and events they engineered that changed history, specific trips undertaken, special places fished, original thoughts and opinions, and it's illustrated with rare black & white photos of the men, the fish and more.

These guys were, to some extent, lucky. They came at a time when our seas were still full of fish and not over exploited by commercial greed and ignorance. That said, you create your own luck, and there's no doubt that if those named above that have left this world were fishing today, then they would still be at the forefront of fishing, breaking records and stacking up the trophy fish.

I got thoroughly engrossed in this book. I lost sleep reading it simply because I was enjoying each and every page. There are few books that you look forward to reading a second time, but this is one.