Biggest Fish Ever Caught - A Long String of (Mostly) True Stories

Informationen zum Autor Award-winning author Andrew Vietze is a Registered Maine Guide and a seasonal ranger at Baxter State Park. His latest book, Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a Maine Guide Inspired America's 26th President, won a silver Independent Publisher's Book Award, was a finalist for a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award, spent weeks on the bestseller list (in Maine), and was honored by decree of the Maine State Legislature. He's written several other books, including the forthcoming tale of the harrowing events on Boon Island (Globe Pequot), and his work has appeared in a wide array of publications, among them Time Out New York, Big Sky Journal, AMC Outdoors, Explore, Crawdaddy!, the New York Times' LifeWire, and Weather.com's Forecast Earth. He's the former Managing Editor of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, has won two International Regional Magazine Awards for history writing, and spends as much time as he can in the woods. Klappentext Tells the tales behind the International Game Fishing Association's record-holding fish, including where they were bagged, what lines/lures the anglers used, and other tips and tricks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Chapter 1 When Lester Anderson pulled a 97-pound king salmon out of the Kenai River on an Alaska fishing trip in 1985, he didn't think much of it. Oh, it was big, he'd spent an hour and a half landing it, and his brother-in-law Bud almost blew him out of the back of the boat when he started the motor, but it was just another fish. He and Bud got into the river, muscled it into their boat, and kept fishing for several hours. Then he left it on his lawn for a while. By the time someone told him he should weigh it, because it looked like a record breaker, it had probably lost 3 or 4 pounds due to dehydration. And it still broke the record. Chapter 2 Alfred Dean always said he wanted to catch the biggest fish in the sea. And he came as close as anyone ever has. The two largest fish are filter feeders and can't be caught on bait. But the next biggest - the Great White Shark - could. Remember Jaws? Dean reeled him in on a hand line in 1959. The Great White hunter has become something of a legend in his native Australia, and no one will ever catch a bigger Great White than his 2,664-pound giant, because the sharks have become a protected species. Alf Dean was the world's expert - of the seven largest of these maneaters ever caught on rod and reel, he bagged six, capturing three international records. Each weighed more than a ton. Then the Australian angler got his wish, landing the greatest of the great whites - his shark outweighs the next biggest fish in the world record book by more than 700 pounds. Chapter 3 Tom Healey probably has some words he'd like to say to Roger Hellen. Less than a year after setting a world record for Brown Trout on the Manistee River in Michigan, his fame and glory has fallen. Hellen caught a brownie in Wisconsin that tied him. The pair now share the record. Healey says, "I was a retired old guy looking for some peace and quiet on the river. And then all hell broke loose." As for Hellen, he not only tied a record but he won more than $10,000 in the process. Chapter 4. Albert McReynolds knows the sea. He grew up helping his grandfather, a boat captain, on his boat in Atlantic City, swabbing decks and mending nets and baiting traps - doing whatever it took to be allowed aboard. Back on land he worked in a nightclub and became friendly with Frank and Sammy, as in Sinatra and Davis, Jr. They tried to talk him out of returning to the water, but he eventually became a captain himself and ran his own boat. When he was 36 he was fishing from a jetty in the city - in the middle of a Nor'easter - and landed the biggest striped bass the world has ever known. And then everything fell apart. McReynolds believes the fish was cursed. He was accused of lying and cheating and faced death threats. A fellow angler even pu...

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• Autori: Andrew Vietze, Dr. Andrew Vietze
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9780762782574
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-8257-4
• Pagine: 168
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Natura; SPORTS & RECREATION / Fishing, Fishing, angling