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BROOK TROUT: A THOROUGH LOOK: REVISED & UPDATED
Nick Karas
GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS, FALCON), November 2002; Hardcover; ISBN: 1-58574-733-5
An angler's celebration of North America's great native trout: its history, biology, & angling
possibilities. Karas unravels the controversies surrounding the two largest brook trout ever taken
& he explores the brook trout's biology, its evolution and distribution. The core of this book is the
fishery: its past status, current condition, & future. Karas also follows the development of the
rods, reels, lines & flies that have evolved. 100+ color & B&W photos & drawings; 6x9 inches,
388 pgs.
A Thorough Look at North America's Great Native Trout--Its History, Biology, and Angling
Possibilities. An angler's celebration of the brookie, one of the world's must prized and beautiful
freshwater gamefish. A selection of the "On the Rise" Book Club.
Compared with other salmonids, brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) prefer their water colder,
cleaner, wilder. Perhaps that’s why no other fish so fascinates anglers. In this, the first book on
the species in a century, Nick Karas explores America’s four-hundred-year love affair with brook
trout.
Karas first unravels the controversies surrounding the two largest brook trout ever taken; then,
through the eyes of a trained ichthyologist, he explores the brook trout’s biology and the events
that led to its evolution and distribution. But the core of this book is the fishery: its past status,
current condition, and future. And because the history of brook-trout fishing is inseparable from
the history of American fly fishing, Karas follows the development of the rods, reels, lines, and
flies that evolved as anglers continued their fascination with this most beautiful of all freshwater
game fish.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"Salvelinus fontinalis' North American range (the brook trout also swims South America and
Europe) has shrunk as Homo sapiens' range has expanded. Karas explores brook-trout history
and speculates about its uncertain future. He has obviously taken a lot of time researching old
brook-trout stories, myths, and legends; for example, Daniel Webster was at one time reputed to
have caught the largest brook trout ever, a 14.5-pound monster (Karas debunks this story and
makes some informed guesses as to who actually caught it, if indeed it ever existed). He does
not, however, provide basic fishing advice. Yet if you seek a definitive resource on brook trout,
search no further; indeed, so encyclopedic is it that even brook-trout devotees shouldn't expect
to read the whole thing at one go." --Jon Kartman
"The much maligned brook trout gets star billing in this encyclopedic, readable study of
Salvelinus fontinalis from Newsday outdoor columnist Karas. Many anglers give the brook trout a
bum rap, considering it an inferior quarry to the wily, fighting browns and rainbows. But there is
also a dedicated band of brook trout fanciers, who find in this exquisite fish--decked out in black
and olive, rose and pearl, accessorized with light green shading to yellow squiggles and vermilion
dots haloed in... " --From Kirkus Reviews
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nick Karas is the author of a half dozen books for sportsmen, including The Striped Bass, and
is the longtime outdoor columnist for New York Newsday. He lives in St. James, New York.
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