Review
Reading Jim White's manuscript for
Monster Shallow-Water Stripers was enjoyable and educational. White has an unconventional way of fishing, pulling trophy fish from places other anglers pass by. His descriptions of unusual rigs were fascinating....
The photos and illustrations, and the single-sentence tips sprinkled through the book, add new dimensions to the already terrific book. The illustrations are especially helpful in the chapters on rigging soft-plastic lures and live baits.
White's rigs for snagging menhaden and catching squid will produce twice the catch in half the time. Neither of the rigs is new--hot shots have been using them for a long time but White s book is the first to illustrate them....
Because his previous book focused on soft-plastic baits, many fishermen assume that they are White's favorite lures. Perhaps, but the man fishes whatever, wherever and whenever it takes to catch stripers, including flies. His chapter on fly fishing is excellent.
A lot of Rhode Islanders regard White as a Bay boat fisherman, but he has also earned his chops as a surf caster and a flats wader, and the book has pictures to prove it along with solid advice on how to fish the suds and the flats.
As Lefty Kreh says in a cover blurb, "Capt. Jim White really knows his stuff. Read, study and absorb the information in this book and you will catch bigger bass." --Tom Meade, Providence Journal, February 7, 2009
About the Author
Captain Jim White is owner of White Ghost Charters, specializing in light tackle and fly fishing for trophy stripers in Narrangansett Bay. He is on the Triton/Evinrude E-Tec, Thomas & Thomas fly rods, Quantum, and Lunker City Lures pro staffs and is the author of the best-selling book, Fishing Soft Plastics. He lives in Coventry, Rhode Island, and appears at tackle shows throughout New England.