Download or read book The Book of the Tarpon Classic Reprint written by Anthony Westson Dimock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of the Tarpon Boca Grande' 3 no place for a canoe! Objected the captain anxiously You have pulled your fragile canoe beside a creature that can knock it endwise with a flip of its tail You soon learn to pay out the line without letting it slip. 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 Classic Reprint written by F. Gray Griswold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tarpon They arrive among the Keys of lower Florida in small schools of an average weight in Pebru ary, and from then on their numbers increase until midsummer. These schools of fish dwell in Bahia Hondo, Matecumbe Sound and other channels for a few days before working their way into the Gulf of Mexico. If a Norther blows they go to sea, and return later. Other fish enter the rivers of the east coast of Flor ida. 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 Louis L. Babcock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tarpon: A Description of the Fish With Some Hints on Its Capture Very little has been written on the scientific side. The anglers who have caught hundreds Of tarpon rarely venture into print although there are notable exceptions, like Endicott and Heilner. Usually the enthusiastic angler catches a few fish and hastens to give the world the benefit Of his experience. These articles serve to amuse even if they do not instruct the veteran angler. The fugitive literature relating to the tarpon is extensive; but no American book dealing exclusively with this fish has been produced since Dimock wrote his classic over twenty years ago. That book, although charmingly written, pictures tarpon angling as a great adventure filled with hair-breadth escapes and perils. Its chapters were written for the maga zines and it is now Obsolete as a guide for the angler. 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 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 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 The Tarpon Or Silver King written by Frank S. Pinckney and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tarpon or "Silver King" Its History and the Method of CaptureNow I have learned the arts and methods of his capture from actual and careful observation and experience. I have fished with Mr. W. H. Wood in his boat, watching his every movement, gathering from him all the hints he gives of his large experience to those who frankly confess themselves novices in the art. I have seen many fine speci mens taken and many more unfortunately lost, so I may justly claim a right to explain as simply as possible the ex act modus operandi which is up to date the most approved.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 Book of the Tarpon written by Anthony Weston Dimock and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Book of the Tarpon written by Anthony Westson Dimock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of the Tarpon 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 Book of the Tarpon written by Anthony Weston Dimock and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Randy Wayne White s Ultimate Tarpon Book written by Randy Wayne White and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unforgettable battles with the fascinating silver king."
Download or read book The Book of the Tarpon written by Anthony Weston Dimock and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 256 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 A Passion for Tarpon written by Andy Mill and published by Wild River Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tarpon on Fly written by Donald Larmouth and published by Frank Amato Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarpon are one of the most difficult fish to catch on fly, everything has to go just right to hook, fight, boat, and release a tarpon. Many skilled anglers fish for years before even getting one to eat a fly, this book shares all you need to know to vastly improve your odds. Tarpon On Fly covers up-to-the-minute information on topics such as: the biology of this fascinating prehistoric fish; tackle; rigging up; productive flies; setting up your cast; aiming and casting; retrieving, striking, and fighting; guides and anglers; and so much more. These two authors have a great love and respect for this mighty fish, now you can learn from these top-notch tarpon fly-fishers.
Download or read book No Room at the Morgue written by Jean-Patrick Manchette and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unparalleled take on the private eye novel — fierce, politically inflected, and finely rendered by the haunting, pitch-black prose for which the author is famed. No Room at the Morgue came out after Jean-Patrick Manchette had transformed French crime fiction with such brilliantly plotted, politically charged, unrelentingly violent tales as Nada and The Mad and the Bad. Here, inspired by his love of Dashiell Hammett, Manchette introduces Eugene Tarpon, private eye, a sometime cop who has set up shop after being kicked off the force for accidentally killing a political demonstrator. Months have passed, and Tarpon desultorily tries to keep in shape while drinking all the time. No one has shown up at the door of his office in the midst of the market district of Les Halles. Then the bell rings and a beautiful woman bursts in, her hands dripping blood. It’s Memphis Charles, her roommate’s throat has been cut, and Memphis can’t go to the police because they’ll only suspect her. Can Tarpon help? Well, somehow he can’t help trying. Soon bodies mount, and the craziness only grows.
Download or read book Some Fish and Some Fishing Classic Reprint written by Frank Gray Griswold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Fish and Some Fishing Knowing that the period of a man's hard-riding days is limited, I prepared for the inevitable some years since by making a pastime of sea-fishing. I have fished for most fish that swim in the American waters, both in the Atlantic and in the Pacific. The fish that interests me the most is the tarpon (megalops atlanticus). I have fished for the tarpon in Florida waters every month in the year excepting in midsummer, all along the Gulf Of Mexico as far as Aransas Pass, and in the Panuco River at Tampico, Mexico. I have also fished around the coast Of Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 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.
