Ingenious Angler

📖 The Scoop

The Ingenious Angler is a collection of do-it-yourself projects and how-to tips that will make fishing easier, safer, more successful, and more fun. The projects cover every aspect of fishing - from optimizing a boat for fishing, to maintaining rods and reels, to improving store-bought lures or creating lures from scratch. If the reader attempts just one or two of the projects described in the book, he will more than recoup the cover price. The core audience is the millions of saltwater anglers who fish out of small boats. Nonetheless, many of the tips and projects are aimed at people who fish from shore, and most are equally applicable to freshwater and offshore fishing. The opening sections of the book are devoted to optimizing a boat for fishing. Projects here include installing professional-quality rod holders; arranging a temporary live baitwell for a fraction of the cost of a commercial unit; securing rods and other unwieldy gear on board; and converting an inexpensive tin boat into a first-rate bass platform. Later sections are devoted to fishing tackle and lures. Here the reader will find tips on everything from repairing rods and reels to creating custom lures and speciali

Genre: Sports & Recreation / Fishing (fancy, right?)