Customer Reviews

Fishing the Long Island Coast

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I read a lot of non-fiction books. Recently I have read a lot of books on Navigation, Boating and Fishing (over 20 books in 6 months). I could say that of these books every book had something that I felt, "I have never heard that before. That is a great technique or idea. I have to remember that.".

Fishing the Long Island Coast was totally absent of that kind of information. It felt contrived and drawn-out. It certainly felt that the Freshwater section was thrown-in as an afterthought when they realized that the format chosen for the book yielded a very short manuscript.

The fact that there is a section dedicated to the various fish species that could be found off Long Island just shows the audience this books may be valuable to (someone who has no fishing background).

My parting comment is; why include driving directions to each of the "hotspots"? There are certainly other, better sources of driving directions. Describe fishing to me, not driving.

I was looking forward to this book, but after reading it I must say I was disppointed. This book is a good attempt, and may be valuable to some who may be brand new to fishing, but it is really lacking in dept. It does a disservice to one of the most productive fishing areas on the coast. Compare this to "Fishing the New Jersey Coast" and you will know what I mean. That is the way it should be done. With all due respect to the 5 star review given, do you work for the author?

This book is a good read for beginning to intermediate fishermen. While I have been freshwater fishing for a good part of my life, I have just started to venture into saltwater fishing and found much on the information helpful.

I just finished reading this book and was happy with the amount of information provided for all the locations around the Island. Some of the info I already new but some I didn't. I am looking forward to trying out some of the spots Tom highlighted. This book didn't go into a lot of How-to but I didn't think it was going to anyway. Well worth the read. Can't wait for spring.

Having just finished reading Fishing the Long Island Coast by Tom Melton, I can honestly say I have never seen a more informative guide to salt water fishing on Long Island. I have been a fisherman for 40 years and found this book to be a definitive guide for the layman as well as expierenced fisherman.