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Kayak Fishing: The Complete Guide

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This guide gives you a quick, clear understanding of the essential information youll need to get started in the growing sport of kayak fishing. Routh covers everything you will need to know for safe, fun and successful kayak fishing, including choosing the right kayak for fishing, kayak safety, basic paddle strokes, choosing the right fishing gear, tides and currents, finding fish, and more. Also includes kayak fishing instructor and gu... » full description

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Review Date: 2009-08-03
I bought this for my husband & he loves it. He loves rigging his kayak for fishing & got a lot of great ideas from this book!

User: A. Lilly
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Summary: A great need to know for beginners!
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
Review Date: 2009-04-28
This book is very comprehensive and fun and easy to read. Well organized so it's easy to find and skip to any particular subject. I've never tried kayak fishing, but wanted to find out more before I made any purchases. I feel like I'm ready to go for it now.

User: Richard M. Davis
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Summary: Comprehensive and a Good Read
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
Review Date: 2009-04-25
If you have spent more than 15 minutes on-line researching kayak fishing, then you probably already know just about everything covered in this book. I purchased it based on the other reviews and, now that I have it, I have to wonder if they are reviewing the same book. Or, perhaps, they are friends of the author.

In any case, this is a BASIC overview of kayak fishing and contains nothing you wouldn't already know if you have been in the sport for a month.

User: Top Ramen
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Summary: (mostly) useless
Helpful Votes: 2
Total Votes: 6
Review Date: 2009-03-04
When I first received this book I thought it didn't contain much useful content because the book had a lot of pictures. However, after reading through the book a couple of times I can agree with the other reviewers that this book contains a lot of very useful information for someone looking to get into kayak fishing. One caveat though is that the author has affiliations with some of the product vendors that are given prominence in the book. Not a bad thing but something to be aware of if you are looking to purchase products based off of information in this book. If you are looking to buy a kayak the one consistent piece of advice I keep seeing is that you absolutely must test drive the kayak (ideally many kayaks) before you buy it. What might be the best kayak for one person could be the worst for someone else.

User: nobody
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Summary: More than just great pictures
Helpful Votes: 3
Total Votes: 3
Review Date: 2009-01-23
This book is written for beginers, but would probably have information for those of you who have already jumped in to the sport.

For beginers, this is a tremendous value! It covers all the subjects I wanted to know about from kayak & paddle types, safety gear, what to wear for the different seasons, paddling lessons, fishing gear, fishing spots, how to fish in a kayak (topics like how to safely land a large fish), even tips on what food to take and how to pack it.

After reading the book, I feel very prepared to do the sport safely, comfortly, and effectively. In fact, I'll be fishing this weekend!

User: J. Rendall
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Summary: Just getting into kayaks and kayak fishing? This is your book!
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1