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Originally Posted by Back Beach
Frank gets my nod as the premier writer/author of our era. Lots of others, but Frank is one of the few that is both a competent angler and outstanding writer. Few people do both of these things well.
Many of the guys I grew up fishing with resented him, but its all jealousy, IMO. When confronted with the "Why don't you like Frank?" question, most of the guys I know struggle to produce a valid argument to me.
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You never asked me. Ask me how he dissed me about the Arnold Laine piece I did two years ago. Ask me how he had the info from Little Paulie the Fireman about Balston (Tony C. would love to tell you I am sure)
How about pissing off the rangers so bad with cheating on getting on or offand forging permits they came down on us like the SS back in the early 80's. If you had rods on at night and were just sitting in your truck you were harrased, fish or get off.
Read 20 years on the cape and you have read all of his books the others are just remixes. And the fly book is a farce. Want to learn to really saltwater fly fish for stripers read Kenny Abrames or Lou Tabory.
He is way overated. Mike if you were on the beach back then in the 70's and early 80's you would have done just as well. Tony C. was the real deal, still is and even Arnold Laine didn't take as many as Tony did. Frank is a wonderful self promoter buyt he wasn't near the best of the best.