This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. author bio box: please use author bio from author info pagebook description box: Angling for fame and fortune in big-league bass fishing. Bass Wars vividly portrays one full and fascinating year in the high-stakes, high-pressure sport of professional bass angling. "Truly fine writing about the sunburned rigors and unexpected dangers of competitive bass fishing." Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Major bass fishing tournaments offer grand prizes worth $100,000 or more. Such opportunities foster plenty of hopes and dreams, because the big winners become celebrities of sorts who may go on to endorse angling products or host TV shows. Taylor chronicles the development of bass fishing as a professional sport and breathes life into it with character sketches of the dominant players and promoters. Indeed, it is his colorful profiles and ability to capture the intensity of several high-stakes contests that make this book so entertaining. Recommended for public libraries in regions where these tournaments are popular. Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Truly fine writing about the sunburned rigors and unexpected dangers of competitive bass fishing." -- Atlanta Journal Constitution
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Account Of Life on the Tournament Trail,
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This review is from: Bass Wars: A Story of Fishing, Fame and Fortune (Paperback)
The book is a third party account of a season of tournament bass fishing mostly focusing on three distinctly different full time tournament fishermen. There are the haves (Rick Clunn), the want to haves (Randy Blaukat) and the have nots (Randy Mosley). The reader is exposed to just how important sponsorship is and the monetary implications to big time professional fishing. You get to see that it ain't just all fishing. Much time is spent in describing their mental approach to fishing and in particular Clunn's "Zen" approach he takes to achieving mental perfection. The book broadly covered the tournament preparation that each angler made without going into very much detail. Not much was written on why the anglers chose certain lures or why they selected specific areas to fish. Too much detail to this may be boring to the recreational fisherman but I would have liked to have known the ins and outs in hopes of improving my own fishing techniques. I found the descriptions on how pro's view their competition personally very insightful. Having enjoyed fishing local bass tournament on and off over the last decade, I enjoyed the some of the parallels I found have in common with the pros. It was nice to see that some days even they don't have a clue. It is also obvious that not much (except for the money) has changed over the last 12 years since the book was written. This book is an entertaining read and will give insight to the world of professional bass fishing to the casual fisherman. Hard core or amateur tournament fisherman may find it a little lacking in tips and tactics that they can personally use.
4.0 out of 5 stars
the life of a pro,
By darkman (Caifornia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bass Wars: A Story of Fishing, Fame and Fortune (Paperback)
if you have thought of going pro this book is for you,its sort of like the 99% rule,99% of athleats(pro sports,fishing, poker)
are not as good as they think they are,hey I am a fine fisherman but ill keep my day job, this book go reprinted and I for one am glad it did,one thing, youll only enjoy this if you fish
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This review is from: Bass Wars: A Story of Fishing, Fame and Fortune (Paperback)
This book is a perfect representasion of being a bass pro
it goes through the money,fame,comrodery,fortune, ups and downs of competitive fishing.
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Angler of the Year, Roland Martin, Truman Lake, Ray Scott, Las Vegas, The Super-Invitational, Randy Blaukat, Rick Clunn, Lake Mead, Lake of the Ozarks, Jimmy Houston, Gary Klein, Randy Moseley, Calville Bay, Gerri Clunn, Orlando Wilson, Holmes Clunn, Ranger Boats, Saddle Island, Harold Sharp, Rich Tauber, Holiday Inn, Joe Thomas, Larry Nixon, Chicamauga Dam Browse Sample Pages:
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