Striper book review

[Saltshaker]

Got a good book in my Christmas stocking,ON THE RUN by David DiBenedetto. It's a chronicle of an angler's journey down the Atlantic Coast following the Fall Run. I enjoy this type of reading more so than the "how to books." How would you like to take 3 months off from work and follow the bass from Maine to North Carolina? For you extreme types you should check out a method of fishing they call "skishing." Skishing is swimming in the ocean in a wet suit and casting while you drift in the current. When you hook up to a large fish it pulls you like a water-skier. This book is a very good winter read.

Tight Lines & Safe Returns,
Saltshaker

[Brian E. Mullaney]

Salt - I read it after Dave Skok recommended it to me. I highly recommend it as well.

[egghead]

Never heard of it.
;)

[Bucketman]

I got a copy for my birthday in Oct. I agree a very interesting book.
Geo.

[Blue5]

I just got it for x-mas. It's very good.

[YoungGun24]

I read it this fall and I agree it was a good book. Not too crazy about that night wetsuit fishing, little to nuts for me.

[Ardmore Bill]

Egg, good answer :D .

I wish there was more on NJ than big Al - but overall it was very readable.

[Bridge Kid]

Night Tides is an excellent book....you can order off the barn...book is my inspiration

[Ardmore Bill]

A couple of other books worth the read are: Milt Rosko's, The Striped Bass Book. I enjoyed reading his first edition, Secrets of Striped Bass Fishing, as a kid and this book is really like a 2nd or 3rd edition but with new info. and a new name. He is a NJ legend as far as I'm concerned.

Daignault's Eastern Tides is on the level of Striper Surf but is more ethnographic in nature, covering the life of a family surfcasting for fun and profit.

McPhee's The Founding Fish is a american shad book served with lots of striper side dishes of info. since the two are tied somewhat during spawning. Great book for the history buff also as it delves into the truth and myth of Washington at Valley Forge and whether the shad played a part in saving his troups from starvation. My favorite is the description of Ben Franklin's arrival to Philadelphia at the wharf on Market Street where he buys two loofs of bread and proceeds to drink a draught from the Schyulkil River.

Great books all around...

[egghead]

Bill,
Our schedules did not permit us to do a proper SJ sodbank trip. We got together in the morning and went out on the sod around IRI.

Since it was daytime it was hard to get the full effect of walking the sod and catching fish at night.

Oh well.

[Ardmore Bill]

How does IRI sods compare with our NJ ones? That inlet is moving with current - it is amazing to see such flow!

[Ardmore Bill]

[ 01-02-2004, 01:45 PM: Message edited by: Ardmore Bill ]

[egghead]

Once you get past the inlet proper it is very similar to our bays. We went a good ways back into the marsh and even walked across the bay in one area. The bays are shallower and lack seem to lack the deeper holes we have but the area is definitely 'fishy'.

[Stalker Charters]

I got this book for Christmas too, just waiting til the fishing is done to read it. It looks like a good one though.

I really like "Trophy Striper" too.

[Got Bass?]

Bridge kid, where can you order the book Night Tides on this site? Thanks

[junkmansj]

Very good book! I highly recomend it,Great Rainy weekend Read