Striper fishermen tend to like manuals and guidebooks and that's about it.
Sadly, the truth is that any book that falls within the realm of serious writing tends to need an educated target audience or publishers become very reluctant to get behind one.
I'm seeing more people who would be interested in books with a more expansive exploration of the reasons why we fish, but I think it will be a while before the sport can float a steady stream of literary titles. Surfcasting is just now expanding its membership beyond the working class. (Not that there is anything wrong with being from the working class; it's where I'm from.)
Anyway, here are my favorites of the ones that fall within the, "shore fishing for stripers" genre.
Best how-to:
Striper Surf - Daignault (far-and-away the best)
Inshore Fly Fishing - Tabory (Tabory's fly fishing book has many cross applications for surfcasting.)
Best Where-to's
Striper Hot Spots - Daignault
The OTW Guidebooks - Bourque
Best adventure/intrinsic/combination
Striper Moon - Abrames
Reading The Water - Post (Only 2000 copies were printed. The publisher did not exactly roll the dice with this one!)
Twenty Years - Daignault
I still have a few on my shelf that I need to read that may make my list.
http://surfcasting-rhodeisland.com/books.htm
http://surfcasting-rhodeisland.com/books_by_frank.htm
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