Seasons of the Striper is a visually stunning journey to America s most epic salt water. It is as close to a firsthand experience as a reader can get without getting wet. With a foreword by Peter Kaminsky, this is the complete trout-fishing experience and the ideal gift for any angler s library. Experience America s greatest striped bass fishing with this richly illustrated volume, an ideal gift for any angler s library. Commonly called stripers or rockfish, Atlantic striped bass are among the most prominent and heavily targeted recreational species in the United States. The highly migratory fish can live for up to 30 years, grow up to five feet long, and weigh more than 75 pounds. They are caught from boats and from shore from the Gulf of Maine to Albemarle Sound in North Carolina, and the striper hot spots sing like sirens to the angler: Chesapeake Bay, Montauk, Martha s Vineyard, and Cape Cod. The number of people who fish for striped bass is well into the millions. This is the story of their fish. The author draws on three decades of observations and interviews contained in notebooks, as well the hundreds of hours he spends pursuing the fish each season from spring through late fall. The essays and photographs illuminate the fish through the seasons spring, summer, and fall and highlight its pursuit from the surf and boats, through day and night on fly, spin, and conventional tackle. Each section has an accompanying essay fish tales told in Sisson s unmistakably authentic voice that takes the reader along on memorable trips. For the serious saltwater fly fisherman, it is an album of shared experiences. For those new to the sport, it is an artfully crafted guidebook to the unique world that exists on the striper waters of America.
Bill Sisson has been chasing striped bass by boat and in the surf for much of his life, from Nova Scotia to Chesapeake Bay and a hundred places in between. He has worked for fishing magazines for nearly forty years and founded Anglers Journal in 2014. Peter Kaminsky wrote Underground Gourmet for New York magazine for four years, and his Outdoors column appeared in the New York Times for twenty years. His books include The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass.
Title: Seasons of the Striper: Pursuing the Great American Gamefish
Author: Sisson, Bill
ISBN: 9780847872305
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Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Number of Pages: 208
Weight: 1.7515 kg
Somewhere between the patrician glamour of fly fishing for Atlantic salmon and the tropical glamour of pursuing tarpon lie the blue-collar rewards of fishing for striped bass. William Sisson knows stripers. After reading his vividly illustrated memoir, Seasons of the Striper, I'd guess he casts for striped bass in his sleep. And catches them too. Sometimes. A prose poet of saltwater in the vein of John Hersey (Blues) and John Hay (The Run), Sisson knows that the poetry of angling and of fish and coastal waters is rooted in facts, not metaphors. Sisson's vivid memories are accompanied by one magnificent photograph after another of stripers and the world of striper fishing, many of them by Tom Lynch. --Gray's Sporting Journal
From the first page, it's clear that Bill Sisson has been afflicted with the striper bug since his youth. Thankfully, Sisson's skills as an angler are matched by his writing chops, allowing us all to enjoy a rollicking, remarkable journey that stretches from his first striper to the striper of a lifetime-and many late nights in between. -David DiBenedetto, editor in chief of Garden & Gun and author of On the Run: An Angler's Journey Down the Striper Coast
Bill Sisson clearly has the wealth of experience on the water-along with plenty of sand in his waders-to be able to so eloquently impart the heart and soul of a fish that so many of us consider the holy grail of saltwater angling. Every striped bass aficionado will immediately identify with Bill's beautifully worded and thought-provoking perspectives on this wonderful gamester. And the photos are just astounding! -Barry Gibson, charter captain and former editor of Salt Water Sportsman
What a thrilling book! With lively writing and captivating photography, Sisson has created something that is an absolute must for every striper angler. -Monte Burke, author of Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World-Record Tarpon
The book is magnificent, filled with gorgeous writing and photographs to match. Just a total pleasure to flip through, to read, to consider, to display proudly on the coffee table for folks to gawp at, and to learn about this species we chase and love. -Sam Sifton, The New York Times