Spectacular Fishing

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SPECTACULAR FISHING

Ken Schultz’s Guide to the Best Freshwater and Saltwater Sites in North America

Text & Photos by Ken Schultz

NEW YORK – Where are the top places to fish in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico? Who better to ask than the leading North American angling authority, Ken Schultz, Fishing Editor of Field & Stream? Now, Schultz provides a mere eighty-four choices in Spectacular Fishing, Ken Schultz’s Guide to the Best Freshwater and Saltwater Sites in North America, newly published by Carlton Books.

A lavishly illustrated 224-page coffee-table book, SPECTACULAR FISHING highlights premier North American destinations that provide first-rate angling experiences. The sites were selected with an eye toward diversity in species, geography, angling techniques, accessibility, types of water, and even cultural experiences.

Thus, SPECTACULAR FISHING features not only sites that have five-star lodges (such as Nueltin Lake in Manitoba), but sites requiring canoe and kayak floats with overnight camping (such as the St. Croix River in Maine). It features remote destinations where some of the most elusive and seldom-caught fish in the world exist (such as charr at Victoria Island above the Arctic Circle, big chinook salmon swimming with humpbacked whales at Langara, British Columbia, or roosterfish in the surf north of Ixtapa, Mexico). And it features places that are readily accessed by thousands of people each year in pursuit of common and popular gamefish (such as largemouth bass at Lake Sam Rayburn in Texas, walleye in Lake Erie, Ohio, or striped bass at Montauk, New York).

The photographic support reflects this diversity as well. The text is enlivened by 229 large, rich, full-color photos – all taken by Schultz – of a variety of situations, species, people, boats, and scenes, making for a lively, real, and visually stimulating book.

This magnificent travel-cum-fishing guide is a companion to Schultz’s previous book, North American Fishing, published by Carlton in 2001, which focuses on prominent species, techniques, and equipment used in sportfishing on this continent.

The author of the renowned and multi-award-winning Ken Schultz’s Fishing Encyclopedia and Worldwide Angling Guide (John Wiley & Sons, 1999), Schultz has been an editor and staff writer for Field & Stream magazine for over three decades; his writing appeared there monthly, as well as weekly on their website. A member of the Fishing Hall of Fame and a former holder of seven world fishing records, Schultz is also a frequent guest on ESPN and the Outdoor Life Network, and has appeared on The Weather Channel, CNBC, and even Court TV, as well as hundreds of radio shows.

In SPECTACULAR FISHING, Schultz draws on a lifetime of experience. His fishing travels have literally spanned the world and blanketed North America; in the space of any given month he may in one moment be heavily bundled while fishing cold water species in the Far North, and days later lightly attired while casting in the Tropics. Says Schultz in so many of his book inscriptions, "So many places, so little time."

To get the most out of a visit to each of the places included in this book, Schultz not only sets the scene with his text and photos, but also provides information about general access; local and regional contacts; prime angling times; gear needs; guide/tackle availability; accommodations and dining; and notable side-trip possibilities.

There’s also a condensed section, "Practical Advice for Traveling Anglers," in which Schultz uses his vast experience to counsel on such practical angling-travel topics as: pursuing trophy fish versus having lots of action; timing a visit to coincide with the best fishing; using a local fishing guide; checking out a boat; and how to deal with weather issues.

With such information, plus handsome color photos showing anglers enjoying their sport at each destination profiled, SPECTACULAR FISHING lures its readers to make plans immediately for a fishing getaway. There are decades of trips-of-a-lifetime here, making this a superb holiday, birthday, anniversary, or Father’s Day gift book for any angler.

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Spectacular Fishing: Ken Schultz’s Guide to the Best Freshwater and Saltwater Sites in North America, By Ken Schultz

ISBN 1-84222-596-0; $29.95 hardcover; 9.5 x 11.5; 224 pages

Published by Carlton Books

Distributed by Andrews McMeel