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It is interesting to read everyones thoughts, likes and dislikes.
Its been a while but I never liked Men's Lives all that much. What did you like about that book? I grew up out that way and know the area very well. My mother got me that book when it first came out and while the photos showed the history I found them painful to look at and to partly blame them for the damage to the fishery, in fact it could be used as evidence of the damaged they caused. I never felt sorry for baymen loosing their jobs either. I was a clam digger 10 years back then in its heyday, made a ton of cash then, in fact it partly put me thru college. I felt the purpose of that book was to make you feel sorry for those guys in some way for loosing there jobs and their grasp on the historical traditions, I could care less about their past, I am more worried about the future! My thinking was no body told them to do that job they shouldn't be upset when they are told they can't do it anymore. Same goes for comm fishing today... but I digress... I will have to read it again and see if I still feel that way, I have not touched it in many years.
I kind of like the chron's because I love BI and anything regarding surf fishing there will catch my interest but I couldn't take the constant mirror lure references either (they are not THAT good). Nobody fished with those things that I knew anyway. After his book came out I picked out is truck a few times...with all the mirror lure decals. whateverworks I guess.
I just got thru that "Blackfish" chapter in Capt. Phils book...jesus was a slaughter...and the waste was enourmous. (for those that didn't read the book they killed hundreds of whales for the mellon-sized sponge in their head which contained valuable oil, the rest of the 30-40' fish was left to rot on the beach.) I still hate to see that kind of "fishing".
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