Good Fishing In The
Adirondacks
By Dennis Aprill
Everything anyone needs to know
about fishing from Lake Champlain to the Streams of Tug Hill is the
promise, and that's what you get!
COVER PHOTO: ALICE VERN
Sports Afield called this handy
book, one of a series of four on fishing New York from Backcountry
Publications, " A treasure trove of firsthand knowledge of the area
. . . solid clues on where and how to fish and for what."
Edited by Dennis Aprill who teaches at
the State University of New York, Platsburgh, this excellent book uses a
dozen or so editors with local knowledge and a series of 32 clear maps
to detail the fishing in and west of Lakes Champlain and George, north
of Highway 90 and east of Highway 81.
Collections of authors, if
lovingly selected as is obviously the case here, offer the advantage of
specialization. Use experts like Ron Koldziej, who knows Great Sacandaga
Lake where Peter Dubuc once took a world record pike, and Fran Betters
of Ausable fly fishing fame, and you get the right stuff for the right
trip to the right place at the best time. Even better you reach the
information sources, guide referrals and other details that improve your
trips when your schedule doesn't match the prime fall or winter action.
While the focus is on trout, landlocked
salmon, smallmouth and northern pike, you get the chance to see how to
take yellow perch and less publicized species and the musky information
on the St. Lawrence deserves a look. Solid sections on ice fishing
insure year-round fishing.
Even though it's now clear Authur
Lawton's "world record" 1957 muskellunge from the St. Lawrence
was bogus, Allen Benas properly points out exceptional changes of big
musky here and that the Bass Angler's Sportsmen's Society claims that
there are more bass per acre in the St. Lawrence than anywhere else they
hold contests. There's not a doubt about that the third weekend in June
with bass season opens.
An exceptional value for anglers within a
half day's drive as the modest cover price would be instantly repaid by
the gas you save looking on your own.
Soft cover, 238 pages, b/w illustrations
and maps created by Larry Boutis, drawn by Jim Capossela.
Dennis Aprill
Star Route, Box 221, 279 Duprey Road
Schuyler Falls, New York 12985
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