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Small Stream Bass: A Complete Angler's Guide to Bass Fishing Off the Beaten Path : Tackle, Tactics, Timing, and Tricks

Small Stream Bass: A Complete Angler's Guide to Bass Fishing Off the Beaten Path : Tackle, Tactics, Timing, and Tricks,9780881505252
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9780881505252

ISBN10:
0881505250
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
11/1/2002
Publisher(s):
W W Norton & Co Inc
List Price: $16.95

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SummaryTable of Contents
Small Stream Bass provides instruction, wisdom, and practical information for getting off the beaten path, exploring and enjoying America's small and overlooked bass streams. Bass are able to live in many streams that can't support trout. Gifford's book opens up a whole new world of fishing to the traditional trout fisherman. Drawing on years of experience, Gifford explains how to find, evaluate, and analyze a bass stream. The reader will learn how to assess a stream for its fishing potential, and about the habits of bass in such an environment. Gifford also addresses issues of equipment, lures, flies, and how to use them in both deep water and in flats and eddies.

Small Stream Bass will give anglers the practical tools they need to get away from the maddening crowds of expensive boats and shoulder-to-shoulder fishing conditions to pursue the incredibly game largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass that inhabit many of America's streams. Small Stream Bass belongs in every fishing book section in the country.

Acknowledgments 9(2)
Introduction 11(4)
Small Water versus Large Water
15(10)
Tackle and Equipment for Fishing Small Streams
25(22)
Spinning Rods
Casting Rods
Fly-Rods
Reels
Line
Waders
Watercraft
Stocking a Tackle Box for the Small Stream
47(16)
Soft-Plastic Baits
Spinnerbaits
Plugs
Weedless Jigs
Flies
Denizens of the Creeks and Streams
63(10)
The Diet of Small-Stream Bass
73(10)
Insects
Frogs
Crayfish
Small Fishes
Other Foods
Evaluating and Reading Small Streams
83(28)
Water Quality
Structure
The Stream Itself
Forage
Accessibility
Fishing Pressure
Stocking
Reading the Water
Shallow-Water Tactics
111(24)
Riffles
Flats
Gravel Bars
Chutes and Runs
Fishing Deep Water
135(24)
Surface Lures and Flies
Subsurface Lures and Flies
Bottom Lures and Flies
Night Fishing
159(14)
Prerequisites for the Night Course
Tackle for Night Fishing
Location, Location, Location
Night Fishing---The Listening Man's Game
Seasonal Availability
Moving On
Small-Stream Secrets
173(16)
Pools
Ledges
Plunge Pools
Bends
Transition Areas
A Year-Round Affair
189(14)
The Accessibility of Small-Stream Bass
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
The Vulnerability of Small Streams and How to Protect Them
203(7)
Index 210


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