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Frank Sargeant's Secret Spots: Southwest Florida (Coastal Fishing Guides)

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This book seems very informative. The maps are a not the best quality but are adequate. The only thing that worries me is that the book is ten years old.

i bought the book, and it is great if you already know the basics of fishing. Frank sargeant gives you the areas that hold fish by labeling snook, redfish, tarpon, etc by islands and shoals etc. It is a great book for that reason alone because you can go to those locations and fish the way you like to (artificials or live bait). I strongly recommend it!!! It is an old book, but it still had great advice and the places he tells u to fish are because they hold structure and/or typical living enviorments.

I have read the book and I use to live down here many years ago. I am somewhat familiar with some of the fishing grounds. The fish spots data is too generic and could be more detailed. This book contains all general info. Even the illustrations of charts seem hard to read and decipher using my newest charts, trying to pin point the areas the writer has described. The book is not worth buying because the information shared is not worth it either.
I would have loved to have seen why and how these type of fish come into this area and what things do you look for in the contour and bottom terrain including tides, moon, water temp., current, salinity, time of year, spawning, specific bait types ie lures color sound rattles size etc .. I believe fishing is a science matched with understanding of the environment and what you are going after. Again I must say this fishing book was too generic and not more intellectualized.