KEN SCHULTZ

Published by Gladstone Media, Ken Schultz’s Daily Fishing Tips is a desktop page-a-day 2008 calendar (also called a "box" calendar). Containing 314 unique tips (Saturday and Sunday pages are combined) suitable for anglers of all levels of experience and that cover equipment and techniques appropriate for freshwater and saltwater angling, this is a calendar that stands out if you want to learn from an authoritative source.

While there are other page-a-day fishing calendars, notice that none of these are attributed to an individual or to an authoritative source, meaning that with them you’ll get milk-toast advice like "fishing is better on cloudy days than on dark days." Gee, that’s helpful.

Here’s a sample tip from Ken’s calendar: "Many anglers think that higher (or faster) gear ratios are best on fishing reels, but this is not necessarily true. A high ratio is useful for cast-and-retrieve fishing with lures that don’t offer much resistance, but it is inadequate for hard-pulling lures. Essentially, as you go up in retrieve speed you go down in cranking power, so keep the application in mind when deciding which reel to use."

In other words, Ken Schultz’s Daily Fishing Tips calendar gives you more meat. More substance. More explanatory information. And it comes from one of the foremost fishing authorities in North America, not a copyeditor sitting in a windowless publishing office who knows nothing about fishing and scoured the pages of somebody’s book to re-phrase information.