Favorite fishing books

[GoneFishingLTN]

What are your favorite reread fishing books/articles that really helped you with structure fishing spoonplugging, in pursuit of giant bass any others?

[Mobasser]

Charlie Brewer " On Slider Fishing". Great read on light line fishing. 

[Chris Catignani]

I really got a lot of good info from Denny Brauer's Jig Fishing.

Some great insight on different lines...you would be surprised.

[Munkin]

Richz has one about finesse fishing.  Rick Clunn seasonal patterns. 

 

Allen 

[volzfan59]

I have a pretty good fishing library. My absolute favorite is the late Billy Westmorland's "Them Ol' Brown Fish"! Re-read it every winter. I also enjoy the he late Tony Bean's book, "The Last Smallmouth".

Honorable mention, Tim Holschlag's "Stream Smallmouth Fishing" and "River Smallmouth Fishing" followed by an eBook that I printed off by the late Craig DeFronzo (earthworm77) "How to Catch More Bass, The Light Tackle Way". It's full of grammatical errors, has a few spelling errors and repeats itself several times but the book contains a lot of juicy nuggets. 

[Dwight Hottle]

1 hour ago, volzfan59 said:

I have a pretty good fishing library. My absolute favorite is the late Billy Westmorland's "Them Ol' Brown Fish"! Re-read it every winter. I also enjoy the he late Tony Bean's book, "The Last Smallmouth".

Honorable mention, Tim Holschlag's "Stream Smallmouth Fishing" and "River Smallmouth Fishing" followed by an eBook that I printed off by the late Craig DeFronzo (earthworm77) "How to Catch More Bass, The Light Tackle Way". It's full of grammatical errors, has a few spelling errors and repeats itself several times but the book contains a lot of juicy nuggets. 

X2 Them Ol' Brown Fish

[padlin]

Whether you fly fish or not, the wit in all John Gierach’s books are great to read.

 

 

 

[Team9nine]

8 hours ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

What are your favorite reread fishing books/articles that really helped you with structure fishing?

 

Spoonplugging

In Pursuit of Giant Bass

 

Any others?

Nope - those two are the best. Can’t beat the originals, IMHO.
 

Some of the original In’Fisherman books/manuals are decent, and there are a few old Larry Nixon articles that aren’t readily available these days, but otherwise… 

 

Maybe BBZ by Siemantel

[WRB]

I would add Don Iovino’s book Finesse Bass Fishing and Sonar Connection for tutorial on structure fishing and how to use your sonar.

Josh Alwine, BR member, Lunker Lore has a chapter on Public Water with structure illustration and funnel areas.

Search this site for long list of suggested books to read.

Tom

[GoneFishingLTN]

On 11/13/2022 at 3:13 PM, Team9nine said:

Nope - those two are the best. Can’t beat the originals, IMHO.
 

Some of the original In’Fisherman books/manuals are decent, and there are a few old Larry Nixon articles that aren’t readily available these days, but otherwise… 

 

Maybe BBZ by Siemantel

I have the bbz and thought it was good any in fisherman books/manual's you would recommend. I have the lures/finding bass and one more cant remember off the top of my head.

 

larry nixon shared a lot of good info I would love to find what your talking about here in this case 

[bowhunter63]

Mike Mladnick has some good Smallmouth books. Tim Holshlag River Smallmouth and anything by Billy Westmorland. Some of the old NAFC books are good too. 

 

 

On 11/13/2022 at 12:47 PM, Dwight Hottle said:

X2 Them Ol' Brown Fish

X3

[Team9nine]

51 minutes ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

I have the bbz and thought it was good any in fisherman books/manual's you would recommend. I have the lures/finding bass and one more cant remember off the top of my head.

 

larry nixon shared a lot of good info I would love to find what your talking about here in this case 

In-Fisherman Critical Concepts, a 3 part (book) series on largemouth bass would be a good starter, or any of their old (~1980) “Manuals” which predated their books but covered everything they developed in the early I-F days in detail.

 

The main Nixon article that comes to mind was from the 80s, in a special ‘bass’ section in one of the bigger outdoor magazines. The article was titled, “Deep, deeper, deepest: Forget the obvious.”

 

 

[king fisher]

Not instructional, but a great book about fishing and life is A River Runs Through It.  I know they made a movie, but read the book you will be glad you did.

[WRB]

I was pleasantly surprised that the late Bill Murphy published his “In Pursuit of Giant Bass”  book. Murphy was very secretive tight lipped angler and the detail he went into was pure Bill Murphy, he left us his legacy to be share.

BBZ Big Bass Zone became Bill Siemantel’s marketing trade name and he deserves the accolades by getting Spro on board.

I watched Bill fish with his father at Castaic casting big lures from shore. Siemental and Butch Brown are about the same age and fished the same lakes. Maybe some day soon Butch will write a book, I hope so!

Tom

 

 

[Team9nine]

On 11/13/2022 at 4:13 PM, Team9nine said:

Nope - those two are the best. Can’t beat the originals, IMHO.
 

Some of the original In’Fisherman books/manuals are decent, and there are a few old Larry Nixon articles that aren’t readily available these days, but otherwise… 

 

Maybe BBZ by Siemantel

 

I have to admit, I forgot one...

 

Lunkers Love Nightcrawlers - definitely deserves a spot alongside the other two mentioned "structure" books.

 

 

[garroyo130]

Spoonplugging

In pursuit of Giant Bass

Joe Buchers Crankbait Secrets

 

I've read most on this thread, but these 3 stand out above the rest for me in terms of information I have been able to use on the water

[12poundbass]

Not much of an informative book compared to the others mentioned above, but Mike Iaconelli’s “Fishing on the edge”, I found a good read. He talks about his life from childhood to adulthood, from catching his first fish, to winning the Classic. Kind of an in-depth look into professional bass fishing. 
 

He does give some tips and tricks along the way.

 

 

 

Edited November 18, 2022 by 12poundbass
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[Koz]

[TnRiver46]

Expensive! Luckily I had a scholarship that paid for it back in 2005 or so. I will barely pay that for a trolling motor nowadays haha

[Chris Catignani]

Excerpt from Fish Tales by Joe Brown.

 

Two fishermen are fishing in a boat under a bridge. One looks up and sees a funeral procession starting across the bridge. He stands up, takes off his cap, and bows his head. The procession crosses the bridge, and the man puts on his cap, picks up his rod and reel, and continues fishing.

The other guy says, "That was touching. I didn't know you had it in you."

The first guy responds, "Well, I guess it was the thing to do - after all, I was married to her for forty years.

 

 

[TheSwearingAngler]

Reading this right now.. love it.

[Boomstick]

20 hours ago, WRB said:

I was pleasantly surprised that the late Bill Murphy published his “In Pursuit of Giant Bass”  book. Murphy was very secretive tight lipped angler and the detail he went into was pure Bill Murphy, he left us his legacy to be share.

I picked up this book on your recommendation and was not disappointed.

[Fishingmickey]

On 11/16/2022 at 7:08 PM, king fisher said:

Not instructional, but a great book about fishing and life is A River Runs Through It.  I know they made a movie, but read the book you will be glad you did.

I also have greatly enjoyed the book. I believe the correct title is The River Why, by James David Duncan. The movie title is A River Runs Through It.

 

FM

[Munkin]

16 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Not much of an informative book compared to the others mentioned above, but Mike Iaconelli’s “Fishing on the edge”, I found a good read. He talks about his life from childhood to adulthood, from catching his first fish, to winning the Classic. Kind of an in-depth look into professional bass fishing. 
 

He does give some tips and tricks along the way.

 

 

 

 

The DVD's BPS sold were mostly just watching people fish except Ike. His finesse fishing one is top two DVD's for learning (Other is KVD's spinnerbaits one).

 

Allen

[Jigfishn10]

5 hours ago, Chris Catignani said:

Excerpt from Fish Tales by Joe Brown.

 

Two fishermen are fishing in a boat under a bridge. One looks up and sees a funeral procession starting across the bridge. He stands up, takes off his cap, and bows his head. The procession crosses the bridge, and the man puts on his cap, picks up his rod and reel, and continues fishing.

The other guy says, "That was touching. I didn't know you had it in you."

The first guy responds, "Well, I guess it was the thing to do - after all, I was married to her for forty years.