Stream Smallmouth Fishing

Rating:
Summary: greatest book ever for river smallies.
Review: I've fished for smallies for ten years and this book has given me many more strategies to use. The author knows the smallmouth well and respects the fish as every angler should.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best fishing books I've ever read.
Review: This book is a must read (and I don't use that phrase lightly) for all smallmouth bass fishers. Tim not only has a fantastic technical knowledge, but he puts it into a readable format. The text flows like the streams he describes. Though not as in-depth as In-Fisherman books, that is the book's strong suit. Anyone can pick up this book and learn something new without getting stuck in too much detail. His illustrations greatly reinforce and illuminate the text. This will be a book that I will review each year before heading out in search of smallmouth.

Rating:
Summary: I wish all fishing books were written like this...
Review: This is an honest and generous book. The author is a genuine enthusiast, and a capable, sober writer. I wish all fishing books were written with the regard Tim shows for his readers. Hell, I wish more novels were written with this sort of precision and care!At any rate, if you're a freshwater fishing enthusiast, and you've dabbled with trout or with river or stream fishing, you owe it to yourself to check this out. As Tim points out, the smallmouth inhabits a much wider range than trout and salmon, but offers many of the same challenges and joys -- particularly to us folks here in the plains. With the encouragement and guidance of this book, I have found, in my home state of Illinois, a tremendous variety of smallmouth streams just an hour or two away from Chicago. Clear, swift running, gravel bottom streams, with picky, tough, green-gold fish who will respond if you know what you're doing. Of course they giggle like children if you don't ... In a way, and I believe Tim would back me on this, the Smallmouth is the supreme midwestern fish, and represents what our region once had to offer -- and what is (surprisingly and luckily) still ours to protect and glorify. It can't be just coincidence that my favorite Smallmouth stream runs by a post-card pretty American legion baseball field -- can it? And when I first found this stream, and a couple local kids dunking worms told me it only had suckers and catfish in it... well, when I took a pretty bass out of the next pool, I felt like I'd rode into town and rode out with the homecoming queen riding shotgun. Now if that aint life in These United States, what is?Thanks Tim