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Title details for Brook Trout: a Thorough Look at North America's Great Native Trout- Its History, Biology, and Angling Possibilities by Nick Karas - Available

Brook Trout: a Thorough Look at North America's Great Native Trout- Its History, Biology, and Angling Possibilities

by Nick Karas
James R. Babb
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North America has had a 400-year love affair with the brook trout - Salvelinus fontinalis- its great native trout. In this newly revised and updated volume, Nick Karas offers the only major profile of this most beautiful gamefish. Brook Trout is a thorough look at the history, biology, and angling possibilities of the fish most anglers affectionately call the brookie.
Through the eyes of a trained ichthyologist, Karas explores the brook trout's biology and the events that led to its evolution and distribution. He unravels the controversies surrounding the two largest brook trout ever taken. But the core of this book is the fishery: its past status, current condition, and future. And because the history of brook trout fishing is inseparable from the history of American fishing, Karas follows the development of the rods, reels, lines, lures and flies that evolved as anglers pursued their fascination with this great game fish.
Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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    November 3, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781510700871
      • File size: 20891 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781510700871
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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 31, 1997
      The brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, has been a favorite with anglers since colonial times. Native to eastern North American waters below 60 degrees Fahrenheit, it is adaptable; from 1835 onward, it has been introduced successfully to most of the temperate world. Karas (The Striped Bass), an outdoor columnist for Newsday, explores the brook trout's biology (it is not a true trout), behavior (it will eat anything, including small mammals) and distribution. Water temperature is crucial to survival, with the ideal range being 35-55 degrees Fahrenheit. Karas examines the controversy over the largest brook trout ever caught--14.5 lbs. He discusses hatchery fish, smaller and shorter-lived than wild fish, and reports on the heritage trout program aimed at re-establishing "heritage" (i.e. wild) trout untainted by domesticated strains. He then turns to specific locations--Long Island, the Catskills, the Adirondacks, Maine's Rangeley Lakes, the Nipigon of western Ontario, the Laurentides--for a brief history of sport fishing for trout. The final chapters deal with acid rain, fishing for wild fish today and methods of trout fishing (including choice of equipment). This makes a splendid addition to the angler's library. Illustrations.

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