Casting Tackle and Methods (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Smith, O. W.

 
9781330386330: Casting Tackle and Methods (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

A practical guide to bass trolling and the gear that makes fishing easier and more reliable. Learn simple, real‑world advice you can use on the water this season.

This nonfiction edition offers practical tips on trolling for bass, including when and where to fish, how to read weed beds and shallow banks, and why a slow, steady lure usually works best. It also covers gear ideas—from compact tackle boxes to pocket repair kits—that help you stay prepared without carrying a trunk full of gear. The author blends hands‑on tactics with light, story‑driven passages drawn from fishing life, making a clear case for thoughtful preparation and patient technique.


  • How to assemble a practical pocket‑kit of essential tools for quick on‑the‑water repairs

  • How to choose and organize tackle boxes with compartments for easy access

  • Strategies for trolling bass: pace, depth, and avoiding obstacles like weed beds

  • Tips on maintaining gear and adapting setups to different lakes and conditions



Ideal for readers who enjoy practical, experienced-based instruction and fishing reminiscences in one edition, including fans of this title’s tackle‑focused approach.

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Excerpt from Casting Tackle and Methods

In Part II, I take up methods, and after instruct ing briefly in the handling of rod and reel. I take the reader to lake and stream and fish with him, showing him, as best I may, how, when and where to throw his lure. And it is the fishing out under the blue sky, where the birds sing and the water mur murs, that makes angling the sport of sports. I love tackle, talk and write tackle, but it is the actual fishing which enraptures me. Better a day on a bass water than two cycles of Cathay. I fondly believe that it will be Part II that will hold the attention of the reader longest/ though he will turn to the first half for information, and I hope that he will not be disappointed.

These chapters appeared in their original form in Outdoor Life, though readers of that magazine will not recognize them in their new dress, so changed and elaborated are they. All have been re-written, some changed entirely to meet modern discoveries. Always I have worked with the needs of anglers in mind, needs that have been made manifest to me through extended and wide correspondence. Last year I answered questions from no less than 600 bass fans throughout the United States and Canada. So the reader can see that while I have compiled the book, as it were, it is the many eager questioners who have actually written it. So it is proper that I dedicate it to them, not forgetting to thank the Edi tor Of Outdoor Life for the privilege of publication in book form.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Casting Tackle and Methods

I am told that very few people read an introduction, a matter which I find it exceedingly difficult to believe, for often the introduction is the best part of a book; that is, when the introduction is not an apology for the book. I make no apology for sending out upon the great sea of books another volume dealing with bait casting as practiced with short rod and multiplying reel. It seems to me that there is room for another work, not too technical for the tyro, withal exact enough to prove of Interest to the old hand. It is not enough for a man to know tackle; he must also know fish; therefore I have divided this book into two parts: Part I deals with tackle, while Part II treats of methods. In both divisions I have been as careful and painstaking as possible, repeating myself again and again for the sake of clearness.

In Part I, I begin with a frank discussion of the rod. Its material, construction and length, answering the questions which have so frequently been asked through my department in Outdoor Life. Then I take up the modern bait casting reel, tracing its development from the old English single action.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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