How to catch big pike : all the insight and technique you need to catch bigger pike, whatever the location / Paul Gustafson with Greg Meenehan.
Title:
How to catch big pike : all the insight and technique you need to catch bigger pike, whatever the location / Paul Gustafson with Greg Meenehan.
ISBN:
9781845286040
Personal Author:
Edition:
Third, revised and extended edition.
Publication Information:
London : Robinson, 2016.
Physical Description:
xi, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
General Note:
"A how to book"--Title page.
Previously published under title: How to catch bigger pike from rivers, lochs and lakes.
"First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Collins Willow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London. This edition published in Great Britain in 2016 by Robinson."--Title page verso.
Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword / by Fred Buller -- Introduction -- First steps: a pike fishing apprenticeship -- Rods, reels & line -- Terminal tackle -- Tools & accessories -- Pike: a fragile quarry -- Bait -- Gravel pits & lakes -- Rivers -- Rigs -- Night fishing & the neuromast system -- Sense of smell, or olfaction -- Sight & vision -- Travelling angler -- Boats -- Lochs & loughs -- Angling, ethics & the future -- Lure of the big pike / by Gord Burton -- Fly fishing for pike / by Mick Willis ad Bob Church -- Mendip ranger's finest hour / by Pete Climo -- Sweden: the land of a thousand lakes -- Pike fishing in Ireland / by Al Rawlings -- Locating a world record pike / by Fred Buller.
Summary:
"Now in its third, revised and extended edition, this book -- a landmark on the subject -- shows how you can consistently catch specimen pike when fishing rivers, lakes, gravel pits and lochs throughout the northern hemisphere. Distinguished pike fisherman Paul Gustafson, an experienced biologist as well as a gifted angler and researcher, shows how you can develop techniques that will catch bigger pike when fishing any location. He describes how to locate the biggest fish in a fishery, the best way of catching it, and how to apply various clever techniques and the most effective tackle to achieve greater success"--Jacket.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn935196411
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
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