I'd like some help looking for a book.

[N.Y. Yankee]

I'm looking for an old fishing book that was a library book at my school when I was 10 or 12 yrs old, Im 56 now I dont know the title or author but it was printed late 50s or early 60's. It was a hardcover and was about introducing new people to fishing freshwater. Rods, reels lines, bait, lures, differnt breeds of fish etc, you know the kind. I'm wondering if any of you have something like this on your book shelf, could you post a  pic of the cover please? I'm sure I would recognize it if I saw it again. It was a part of my childhood and I'd like to try to find it again. Thanks

[immortl]

Try searching ebay for 'vintage fishing book'.  The listings results usually have a thumbnail of the cover.  Might stumble across it there.

 

Also try your favorite web search engine (google, duckduckgo, bing, etc) for something along lines of "vintage fishing book"  or "vintage book freshwater fishing" and click on the images 'tab' at the top of the results.  It'll bring up a whole lot of  book cover images for you to browse.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

15 minutes ago, immortl said:

Try searching ebay for 'vintage fishing book'.  The listings results usually have a thumbnail of the cover.  Might stumble across it there.

 

Also try your favorite web search engine (google, duckduckgo, bing, etc) for something along lines of "vintage fishing book"  or "vintage book freshwater fishing" and click on the images 'tab' at the top of the results.  It'll bring up a whole lot of  book cover images for you to browse.

 

 

Thanks a bunch for the tips. I've been trying all this for some time without any luck so far. The search continues.

[Kirtley Howe]

Try these"

Fishing for Beginners by John Watson. (1968)

Freshwater Fishing by Dick Sternberg (1959)

The Complete Book of Freshwater Fishing by P. Allen Parsons (1961)

 

Good luck

[MAN]

I have these 2 at my desk.....by chance is it one of them?

 

 

[Alex from GA]

Sportsman's Digest of Fishing  by Hal Sharp

 

[einscodek]

On 8/26/2023 at 10:02 AM, Alex from GA said:

Sportsman's Digest of Fishing  by Hal Sharp

 

 

 

Ha ha ha.  Now in these days of sonar and Elon Musk Star Trek satellite scanners, something really lost in the art of bank fishing revealed on this here book cover.  None of that fancy stuff makes much a difference if you scare the heck outa the fish.  I seen folks chatting up a storm and blastin music trying to catch bass.  WRONG WAY.  Even got waders on.  How many bank fishermen do you see these days with waders on.  If you see one, it may be me!

BTW I learned near nothing from those beginner fishing books and sometimes not so good advise too.  There are a few "advanced" books out there but you glean some here and there from this here book and that there book and piece together some good knowledge.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

On 8/25/2023 at 11:19 AM, Kirtley Howe said:

Try these"

Fishing for Beginners by John Watson. (1968)

Freshwater Fishing by Dick Sternberg (1959)

The Complete Book of Freshwater Fishing by P. Allen Parsons (1961)

 

Good luck

Thanks a bunch!

On 8/25/2023 at 11:41 AM, MAN said:

I have these 2 at my desk.....by chance is it one of them?

 

 

Thae one on the right is interresting. Going to look into that.

On 8/26/2023 at 10:02 AM, Alex from GA said:

Sportsman's Digest of Fishing  by Hal Sharp

 

Not quite but thanks a bunch Alex! Looks like a good book though!

[MAN]

On 8/26/2023 at 9:02 AM, Alex from GA said:

Sportsman's Digest of Fishing  by Hal Sharp

 

Talk about bad luck...to trip and fall right when the artist was drawing the cover image. 

[WRB]

Do you recall the color of the book cover?

Was the book on bass fishing? or General fishing?

Lots of books published in the 50’s To early 60’s and have most of them. 

Red Cover could be Lucas on Bass by Jason Lucas for example.

Tom

[Columbia Craw]

Like this???

[JGD]

Not really fishing books but when I was in the first grade the library had 2 books called “Billy Bass” and “Bobby Bluegill” Absolutely loved reading those books about the life cycle of these fish. Never knew what became of them.

Good luck in your search.

 

John

[Swamp Girl]

On 8/30/2023 at 10:04 PM, JGD said:

Not really fishing books but when I was in the first grade the library had 2 books called “Billy Bass” and “Bobby Bluegill” Absolutely loved reading those books about the life cycle of these fish. Never knew what became of them.

Good luck in your search.

 

John

 

I loved ^these^ two books and read them many times!