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Small Mouth Bass

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This book discusses fish movements and strategies for the different times of the year. You find out why you may have caught fish in the Summer then caught nothing in the Fall. Lots of diagrams. Teaches you what the fish are doing throughout the year and where they are doing it.

Love this book especially since I love to fish for smallies. I thought I knew a lot, but this book has gave me so much more understanding for smallies! Book was in better condition then what they sold as. Seller was super fast shipping!

If it says IN Fisherman on it, Buy it! They produce some of the best books and videos on freshwater fishing. Period! Full of current, scientific, and practical advice on the species you are after. If you don't learn from this book, then you probably helped write it.

Great seller and I would buy from this seller again. The book arrived fast and as advertised regarding condition.

I was very disappointed with this book. It contains some valuable information but it is poorly organized. Even the table of contents is confusing.

The authors devote an inordinate number of pages describing in tedious detail the different behaviors exhibited by smallies throughout the year. This subject matter is covered in many other books more concisely, in far fewer pages, yet much more clearly than it is in this book. Important points about the fish's general behavior are lost amid the minutia and are not adequately emphasized. Information is repeated needlessly.

The author's characterization of various bodies of water is tedious and unfocused. Again, there is valuable information here but the reader must sift through a lot of chaff.

I must give credit to the staff of In-Fisherman magazine, the authors of this book. They really know how to pad and stretch 100 pages into over 200!

First off, they spend 50 pages discussing various types of lakes and reservoirs. Unfortunately, knowing this won't help me catch a fish. Sure, a little bit of background material doesn't hurt, but 20% of the book?

Then they divide each season in multiple periods. Using this padding technique "Summer" is turned into "Pre-Summer, " "Summer Peak," The "Summer Period," and "Post-Summer." To the beginner this may imply a higher level of detail, but once you hit the water you won't remember these subtle variations. How many ways can you say, "As the water warms the fish move offshore into deeper water?"

Another stretching technique is the way they toss in many diagrams that are not easy to read and don't add any value. Maybe I'm dense, but seeing a topographic sketch of a lake point with eight different "X's" on it has yet to help me catch a fish.

To summarize, if you're an angler who wants to catch fish there are better books, such as Smallmouth Bass by Sternberg, part of the Hunting & Fishing Library series. At 160 pages, it is chock full of solid information, helpful tips, and informative color pictures, and even has an index!

You can gleen some useful info from the book, but you'll have to scan through the fluff.