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The Cruiser's Handbook of Fishing

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I have done quite a bit of crusing, fishing and diving but I always wanted to learn how to clean and prepare the fish myself. The book gave some very good insight into this but I didn't think it was detailed enough. The books starts out with the basics of fishing while crusing and then on to every theme possible: 1.) Fishing under power or sail 2.) Gear and Tackle (excellent drawings for knot tying) 3.)Offshore Trolling 4.)Adrift or Anchored 5.)Dingy Techniques 6.) Walking, Wading and Diving 7.) Tools and Nets 8.) Arranging your vessel for fishing 9.) Processing your catch 10.) Medical Considerations for the Crusing Fisher 11.) Getting the most from your new crusing skill 12.) A guide to Edible Fish and Invertebrates ( would be much better in color as I have not seen many fish come up black and white) 13.) Seafood recepies

If you are planning any type of crusing for a longer period of time. This is an absolute must have. A transatlantic or gulf stream crossing can sometimes get boring and knowing these skills take out a lot of the intimidation a lot of us have about fishing and cleaing our own catch.

This is an excelent source book for the voyaging sailor,or anyone, who wants to learn how to have better success when fishing the worlds oceans. The authors have cruised extensively aboard their yacht,Ian, and have a background in marine biology. They have a unique perspective into how you can increase your success rate in having fun while catching dinner. Topics cover equipment selection, tips for catching specific species, toxicity issues, and much more. Even if you are not cruising the Seven Seas, you will learn a lot about offshore fishing from this book. I reccomend it.

This is a long, detailed book that gives you all the info you could want on living off the ocean. Be advised, there is no fresh water information in the book. That being said, if you want to improve your ability to catch fish at sea, this book has it all.

I found this book to be both easy to read and very informative.. I have little to no knowledge of fishing and I found a wealth of practical hands on advice in this book. It seems to cover the subject in depth and lucidly with lots of antedotal stories to illistrate the topic. There are also lots of pictures and diagrams showing and illistrating what is being discussed. At the end of every chapter the authors also give a detailed suggested equipment list to help you get started with hands on application of that type of fishing.

I have not had a chance to put this into practice but I no longer feel bewildered about how to get started or how to catch what with what equipment.

I highly recommend this book

Length:: 5:39 Mins

Last month I helped a friend deliver his sailboat from Cabo to San Diego - a 5 day cruise. A well-worn dog-eared (and signed!) copy of this book was on board. I used the book to figure out knots, rig a hand-line, select and position the lure and properly kill, bleed and fillet a bonita tuna (actually two). Also used recipe suggestions in the book to prepare sashimi, ceviche, and seared tuna. Results are in the video. If you are cruising and fishing, you need this book.

The Kindle edition had photos, tables and figures as far as the beginning of Chapter Two. After that, none. No pictures of the lures, hooks etc mentioned in the text. Despite being clearly written and very informative, without these illustrations, much value is lost.
Can anyone suggest where or how I might be able to download the tables and figures separately?

I wasn't sure this book would be all I hoped it would be, but it IS, and more. This guy is a PhD, and really knows his stuff, but he describes the technical details along with the cruising lifestyle and serious fishing, and man, what a read. If you have ever dreamed on boating around in the Caribbean and catching fish and grilling them up right on your boat, here is the how-to-do-it book.

The Handbook was a pleasant surprise. It is full of practical information that both beginners and experts will find useful.

In The Cruiser's Handbook of Fishing, Scott & Wendy Bannerot have given blue water cruisers all the information needed to successfully find, catch, land, prepare, store and dine on the ocean's bounty. Of the hundreds of books on angling I've read, this is probably the most detailed and comprehensive treatment of a specific topic I've come across. And yet the clear writing, logical sequence, and abundant use of illustrations would make the reading accessible to even an inexperienced angler. The Bannerot's cover everything from simple, effective handline techniques to flat-line trolling with conventional and spinning gear to full-blown big game trolling complete with teasers and outriggers. Well-illustrated treatments of lure and live bait rigging would make this book useful to virtually any offshore angler. There are also detailed discussions of diving for mollusks and crustaceans as well as spearfishing.
The main objective of the book is helping people harvest food. In keeping with that objective, there are detailed sections featuring a variety of ways to preserve one's catch while at sea (these methods would apply to those who take their catch back to land, too), and the Bannerot's have included a few of their favorite recipes.
Ichthyologists--and others interested in accurate descriptions of fish species--will appreciate that the Bannerot's have included the scientific names for the various species they describe and, when using common names, give the approved American Fisheries Society nomenclature. This is an excellent book, and if you fish the ocean from a boat--or even aspire to--you will want a copy for your library.

This book is an absolute gold mine for any fisherman or wanna be fisherman. Many illustrative stories. Has everything from catching the fish to landing it, cleaning it and even recipes for cooking it. Has all kinds of information on shellfish as well, where to find them, what to watch out for, how to prepare them and again recipes.