Download or read book Tarpon Fishing In The Gulf Of Mexico written by Alfred C. Harmsworth and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Glory of the Silver King written by Hart Stilwell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to a fish, a sport, and a time now past . . . Through a series of chance encounters over several years, fishing guide and journalist Brandon Shuler unearthed multiple drafts of a nearly finished manuscript by an almost forgotten Texas sports writer, Hart Stilwell. Titled “Glory of the Silver King,”the manuscript vividly captured the history of tarpon and snook fishing on the Texas and Mexico Gulf Coast from the 1930s to the end of Stilwell’s life in the early 1970s. Stilwell was a seasoned outdoors journalist with a passion for salt-water fishing. Now, with Shuler’s careful research, editing, and annotation, this lost manuscript has found new life as both an entertaining “fish tale” and a historical snapshot of a region’s natural heritage. It successfully conveys the thrill of fishing for these once abundant species at the same time it tracks—and laments—the rise, decline, and eventual fall of their fisheries in Texas (which Shuler is able to report are now experiencing a rebound). In a personal and informative introduction, Shuler paints a portrait of Stilwell and tells the story of the discovery and evolution of the manuscript. He also provides a look into his own life as an angler and writer, creating a connection with Stilwell that gives the work authenticity and relevance. Anglers will delight in Stilwell’s rollicking prose. Environmentalists will appreciate the book’s lesson in ocean conservation. For all who live on or near the Gulf Coast, Glory of the Silver King reintroduces a forgotten literary treasure and a magnificent fish that once filled the waters at our favorite coastal retreats. "Hart Stilwell was a world-class raconteur and storyteller. His unpublished manuscript on the glory days of coastal fishing became an underground legend, passed around like a sacred totem for decades. Editor Brandon Shuler has revived Stilwell’s folksy charm and penetrating insights, and the result is this engaging and important book."--Steven L. Davis, curator, The Wittliff Collections
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico written by Thomas C. Felton and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida written by Edward George Spencer Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing in Florida written by E. S. Churchill and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian book contains an account of a ten day-long tarpon fishing trip off the coast of Florida. This interesting and entertaining account is highly recommended for fishing enthusiasts, and will be of special utility to those with a particular interest in tarpon fishing. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book TARPON FISHING IN MEXICO AND FLORIDA written by EDWARD GEORGE SPENCER. CHURCHILL and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida With Plates and a Map written by Edward George Spencer CHURCHILL and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida Classic Reprint written by Edward George Spencer Churchill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida I propose, with the aid of the reader's imagination, to take him along with me for a few days' sport among the Mexican tarpon. I had decided to start from the town, and fish my way down to the mouth of the river, so I leave the hotel about 9 a.m., and follow my dark-complexioned boatman. After five minutes' walk we embark in a small row-boat, and set off down a narrow and dirty backwater. The bait consists of some twenty recently killed silvery mullet, as they are locally called, something the shape of a cigar, and varying from 6 to 9 inches in length. I select one of these and pass the barb of the hook, which is over 3 inches long and 1% inches broad, through the throat and out through the skull, and notice at the same time that my hand is not quite so steady as usual at 9 o'clock in the morning. Of course I tell myself that I do not expect a strike for at least an hour after entering the river, nor really until I am within a mile of its mouth, as I have been told that spot is a special favourite with the tarpon. Attached to the hook is a piece of piano wire 5 feet long, then come 200 yards of twenty-seven-ply tarpon line. This is wound on a multiplying reel whose only brake consists of a button, by moving which I can apply a small amount of friction to the drum and lastly, my 6-foot rod, -a frail enough apparatus, I think, with which to land a fish 6 feet long and every inch a fighter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Tarpon written by Frank Gray Griswold and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing Off the Gulf Coast written by and published by . This book was released on 1904* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing in Florida written by Robert Grant and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lords of the Fly written by Monte Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Saban, 4th and Goal, and Sowbelly comes the thrilling, untold story of the quest for the world record tarpon on a fly rod—a tale that reveals as much about Man as it does about the fish. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, something unique happened in the quiet little town on the west coast of Florida known as Homosassa. The best fly anglers in the world—Lefty Kreh, Stu Apte, Ted Williams, Tom Evans, Billy Pate and others—all gathered together to chase the same Holy Grail: The world record for the world’s most glamorous and sought-after fly rod species, the tarpon. The anglers would meet each morning for breakfast. They would compete out on the water during the day, eat dinner together at night, socialize and party. Some harder than others. The world record fell nearly every year. But records weren’t the only things that were broken. Hooks, lines, rods, reels, hearts and marriages didn’t survive, either. The egos involved made the atmosphere electric. The difficulty of the quest made it legitimate. The drugs and romantic entaglements that were swept in with the tide would finally make it all veer out of control. It was a confluence of people and place that had never happened before in the world of fishing and will never happen again. It was a collision of the top anglers and the top species of fish which would lead to smashed lives for nearly all involved, man and fish alike. In Lords of the Fly, Burke, an obsessed tarpon fly angler himself, delves into this incredible moment. He examines the growing popularity of the tarpon, an amazing fish has been around for 50 million years, can live to 80 years old and can grow to 300 pounds in weight. It is a massive, leaping, bullet train of a fish. When hooked in shallow water, it produces “immediate unreality,” as the late poet and tarpon obsessive, Richard Brautigan, once described it. Burke also chronicles the heartbreaking destruction that exists as a result—brought on by greed, environmental degradation and the shenanigans of a notorious Miami gangster—and how all of it has shaped our contemporary fishery. Filled with larger-than-life characters and vivid prose, Lords of the Fly is not only a must read for anglers of all stripes, but also for those interested in the desperate yearning of the human condition.
Download or read book Randy Wayne White s Ultimate Tarpon Book written by Randy Wayne White and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring Contributions from Ernest Hemingway, Zane Grey, Theodore Roosevelt, Ted Williams, Thomas Edison, Stu Apte, Vic Dunaway, Thomas McGuane, Nick Lyons, and many more!
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida By E G S Churchill written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fishing Florida s Flats written by Jan S. Maizler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous flats fishing experts share their wisdom on how to land a trophy catch, in a guide that includes information on tackle selection, techniques, directions to hot spots for each species, and details on each flat's fish. Original.
Download or read book The Tarpon written by Louis L. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida Primary Source Edition written by Edward George Spencer Churchill and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
