Book Review for Fishing Texas: An Angler's Guide by Russell Tinsley.
Texas is dubbed the Lone Star State and is a popular southwestern destination for both vacationing and fishing. For those wanting to explore Texas for fishing, this book is a great read.
Fishing Basics for Texas and Everywhere Else
The author has assembled a great list of fishing basics that is useful no matter the destination for fishing. One of the great finds in the book is where the author talks about how the barometric pressure, temperature and moon influence can all have an effect on how the fishing will be. These will have have a direct relation on how active the fish will be and if they will bite.
Other basics that are talked about in Fishing Texas: An Angler's Guide Book
For proper filling of reels, this handy book shows how to properly fill a revolving spool reel, spinning reel and a spin-cast closed reel. Also, sprinkled throughout are many tips and hints for a more successful fishing trip anytime of the year.
The Many Varieties of Fish Found in Texas
The varieties of fish is plentiful and each fish is illustrated with a description, habitat and other information, and if there are any state or world records for the fish.
For freshwater fishing, Texas has many bass including largemouth, smallmouth, spotted, rock, white, striped and Guatalupe bass. Sunfish are also plentiful with bluegill, green, redear and longear and hybrid sunfish being found. Catfish, drums, trout and gar arre also highlighted.
For saltwater fishing, this book goes into inshore (bay and coastal varieties), open water varieties and outer reef species of fish. All the fish are both illustrated and described. In Texas, seatrout, croker, whiting, flounder, tarpon, snook, jackfish, mackeral, dolphinfish, tuna, marlin, snapper and grouper can all be found.
This book even has a chapter called 'Inshore and Offshore Species (Not Usually Sought For Sport or Food)'. In it, many different fish are described even though they aren't usually caught for food and aren't on the list for sportfishing.
Guide for Texas Fish
In all this book has over 130 different fish illustrated or reported on and described. The handy size and comb binding make it a perfect choice to take fishing and can be opened flat for reading and identifying species.
For more information:
Title: Fishing Texas - An Angler's Guide
Author: Russell Tinsley
Illustrations by: Henry Compton and Nancy McGowan
317 Pages
1988, Shearer Publishing
Fishing Texas - An Angler's Guide Book
Disclaimer: This book was purchased with author's own money, and any opinions are the author's own.
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