You can borrow mine if ya want and Bass from the Beach:read:

Did some more reading this winter and wanted to weigh in on this thread, sorry for the bump. I generally enjoy the memoir and travelogue approach to How-To's, but both are equally important.

A few of my favorites:

River Runs Through It - No, not surf casting, but one of the best books out there, let alone on fishing. The last line gives me goosebumps everytime I read it and then makes me want to start all over again.

Easter Tides - is a close second. Fun read and really brought me back to days on the Race and Nauset with my dad fishing when I was a little kid. (20 Years... was really good too, but I preferred ET).

Reading the Water - was the first surf book I bought and still is one of the best

On The Run - was well-written and was such an unforgettable adventure. Made me want to follow in the DiBenedetto's footsteps.

Blues - Hate the fish, but loved how the book dealt with a lot of the more abstract ideas of why fishing is such a great way of life.


As far as How-To's:

I think Striper Surf is the best.

And I think OTW Anthology is also very well done. One of the first fishing books I actually used a highlighter while reading.

I still like the Woolner and Lyman books as well, the Buggies section in Modern Saltwater Sports Fishing is fantastic to a youngster like me.

what stupid said

All of the above are quite good. I just scanned this threat to see what my libarary was missing....I am in pretty good shape the only book I don't have is Capt' Phil Schwind's "Cape Cod Fisherman"....Hmmm, need to dig around for that one with a review like that!

I would recommend "The Surfcasters Quest". I really enjoyed that book and felt like I was walking around with the author fishing BI. Not a how-to but more of a why we do what we do kind of book but in the process takes you down an interesting path.

There's my quote of the month!

The best fishing books teach us about respect. And they do this by teaching us how to fish. The very best fishing books are about place and about character and less about the knots that we use to connect mono to braid.

would someone be willing to read me a couple of these books . I cant read ! never learned to properly read words silently . I seem to have to yell out each word just to get through one sentence . time consuming to say the least . Im going to go back to remedial reading soon .

I have had bobby post "reading the water" and nick karas " striped bass " read to me by my kids but my kids give me a rough time cause they think Im stupid cause I cant read correctly or quietly .

I can read you "reading the water" in Mandarin if you'd like.

This is on the top of my list as well. I go back to it in the middle of the winter often. Others on my shelf include:

Inshore Fly Fishing by Lou Taboury
Stripers and Streamers by Ray Bonderew
Night Tides, the Striper Fishing Legend of Billy the Greek
Hook Line and Sinker by Gary Soucie (great terminal tackle book, love it, great reading book as well.)
Through the Fish's Eye by Mark Sosin
What Fish See by Kageyama
McClane's Fishing Encyclopedia

" Striper Chronicles " Leo Orsi

Yeah "men's lives" is great. Try to get the first edition, which has the photographs in it.

"The longest silence" by Thomas McGuane is a fine book.
Same with "the fish's eye" by Ian Frazier.
"Practical light-tackle fishing" by Mark Sosin
Giant Bluefin by Whynott

I dont eat oranges sorry

I would recommend "The Surfcasters Quest". I really enjoyed that book and felt like I was walking around with the author fishing BI. Not a how-to but more of a why we do what we do kind of book but in the process takes you down an interesting path.[/QUOTE]


"Surfcaster's Quest" is my favorite. I have run into the author, Roy Rowan at Finn's and other places on BI. In the book he talks a lot about the zen of surfcasting.

I did not like "Striper Chronicles" at all.

Ditto on Men's Lives and two books I always pick up at yard sales, to give to friends, that folks should read once in their lifetime are the Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord (Peter Matthiessen). Good to broaden those horizons...

I'll second that.
A friend got me a signed copy.
(It Should have been entitled 'yuppy surfcasting on BI)

Chuckg--I'm reading snow leopard right now. OM!

Reading the Water, by Bob Post.

Love the dune monsters.................:shocked:

Completely agree.

:rotfl:

Ditto

I wonder how many people bought an 11' white rod cuase of that swill.

Not to mention that mirrolure.

We, Bryan, Spence and I actually ran into that guy at the SW Point on the Block about 3 years ago, 2 days after Thanksgiving and, guess what? He was throwing the red headed mirror lure. No lie!!!

20 Years is #1 for me. 1st book I read on the subject and opened my eyes about my own back yard. I grew up spending summers in N. Truro and never had any idea what was going on along the back beaches. We were on the bay side, and noone in my family knew the first thing about fishing....

Giant Bluefin was outstanding. Eastern Tides also very good.

That's the one for goosefish to read in Mandarin ;)

I was gonna ask what languages it came in.

ich spreche nur ein bisschen deutsch aber nein apfelsinen

i would like to borrow:
Men's Lives and Reading the Water.

Anyone got one to loan?

If you liked Tim Coleman's To Catch A Bass then you'll probably like the one he's doing now for SRI Press...It's a shore manual with a focus on how-to for plugs, soft plastics, reading structure....
May-June release.

I must have been living in a cave for the last 35 years. For some reason I never heard of Phil Schwind until fairly recently. After seeing your post I searched around looking for some of his works...very interesting fellow. I found a 1st ed signed Hardcover of CCFisherman in a bookstore in Co of all places and have in now by my bedside (just started it last night). This looks great. Once I saw your above quote I said I have to read this. Thanks!