Though the modern pickup is a technological marvel, it is far from perfect, especially if you need it to tow or go off-road. Fortunately, there is now a wide variety of automotive after-market products specifically designed to enhance the performance of your four-wheel-drive pickup or sport-utility vehicle. "The Field & Stream Sporting Vehicles Handbook" explains in non-technical language how upgrades to a truck's suspension, transmission, exhaust, and electronic engine controls can yield a dramatic and much-welcomed improvement in towing, load-hauling, and off-road performance. You'll also learn from the experts about such critical bolt-on accessories as winches, auxiliary lights, hitches, and wheels -- in fact, everything you need to turn a stock four-by-four into a real hunting and fishing machine.

The Beaverkill, the Willowemoc, the Neversink, the Delaware, the Esopus, the Schoharie--these hallowed trout streams have been hailed for generations as "the birthplace of American fly fishing." Here is their story. Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, Catskill Rivers will likely remain the definitive study of these fabled waters and the remarkable people who created the American fly-fishing tradition.
There is an unforgettable look at the early river industries--rafting, sawmills, tanneries, wood-acid factories--and at the early days on these classic trout waters, where George LaBranche, in Sparse Grey Hackle's words, "adapted the dry fly to fast water and started an angling revolution." Here are the great anglers, fly tyers, rod makers, entomologists, and publicists--"Uncle Thad" Norris, Seth Green, Theodore Gordon, Herman Christian, Roy Steenrod, Rube Cross, Hiram Leonard, Ed Payne, Louis Rhead, Edward R. Hewitt, Sparse Grey Hackle,
Preston Jennings, Art Flick, Harry Darbee, Walt Dette, and a host of others. There are revealing discussions of the sociological forces that led Americans into fly fishing; the origins and customs of private stream clubs; the rivalries between owners and poachers; the controversies over imported "German" brown trout; the cult of dry-fly purists; the evolution of hatchery practices, stream improvements, and fisheries regulation; as well as the future prospects for these lovely waters. There are also penetrating historical and physical profiles of the six principal Catskill rivers, their insect life, trout distributions, stocking practices, access, angling pressures, fishing conditions, and successful angling techniques.
CatskillRivers is a poignant journey through the annals of American angling, from its origins to the present, laced with anecdotes and stories, graced with over one hundred ten photographs and nine beautifully illustrated river maps by John Manikowski. It is a book all fishermen will treasure.

When Bob "Bubba" Rich decided to embark upon his own quest--to qualify for the Metropolitan South Florida Fishing Tournament Hall of Fame--he didn't realize the amount of strength he would need to accomplish his goals. By the time it all was over, he had exhibited as much strength, valor, patience, and fortitude as any angler could muster.
Consider his goals--to take ten species of gamefish, on specific types of tackle, with difficult-to-achieve minimum weight requirements: a twenty-five-pound barracuda, a twenty-pound permit, a twenty-five-pound dorado, a blue or white marlin, a twenty-five-pound wahoo, a nine-pound bonefish, a sailfish of any weight, a six-pound largemouth bass, a one-hundred-pound tarpon, and, finally, an eighteen-pound snook.
Fish with Rich as he probes the waters of south Florida and the Bahamas, searching for the ten species that will gain him entrance to the Hall of Fame. Enjoy the incredible highs he feels when finally catching a fish that qualifies; share with him the unfathomable lows when things go wrong, and he just can't catch a break on some of the gamefish.

Bass, especially largemouth bass, are easily the single most popular freshwater gamefish in the United States. Knowing Bass is a book about the science of bass fishing, with particular emphasis on the bass itself:
What bass can sense
How they use their senses to feed
How they relate to fishing lures
And ultimately, how they interact with anglers.
Understanding why bass do what they do will greatly improve anyone's chances of being a better and more successful angler, no matter the angler's present skill level.
Topics covered include bass biology; life history; the bass's organs of vision, hearing, smell, and taste, including the smells and flavors bass like-and don't like; how smell and taste control feeding behavior; the best kinds of lures to trigger the attack response in certain situations; and even minimizing stress on caught bass that are to be released.
A distinguished scientist who knows how, when, and why bass pursue their prey, Dr. Jones offers a wealth of valuable information on pursuing this popular gamefish to anglers of all skill levels.

Bass Bug Fishing is a detailed and comprehensive guide to top-water fly fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass, covering everything anyone needs to know to enjoy the thrill of bass bug fishing: the behavior of bass at various times of the day and season; recognizing good bugging water; the most effective tactics and techniques; the history of bass bugs; selecting effective bugs; how to tie the best bass bugs; equipment; and much more. No one who uses a fly rod to fish for bass - beginner to expert - should be without this book. (6 X 9 1/4, 164 pages, color photos, b&w photos)

"The Year of the Angler" and "The Year of the Trout" have long been underground classics, the kind of books used-book sellers can't keep in stock, the ones its owners won't loan out. Now they're back in print, under one cover.
Arnold Gingrich, the fly-fishing maven and editor of" Esquire," ranked Steve Raymond with the great fishing writers, and Gingrich knew writers and good writing. So great is its reputation, that a copy of "The Year of the Angler" was presented to the White House by the American Booksellers Association.
Raymond fishes Western waters, particularly the Northwest. Here are accounts of adventures on the Hoh, the Duwamish, the North Fork of the Stillaguamish, the Hanford Reach of the Columbia, Pass Lake, and Columbia Basin Pond. Here, too, are affectionate portraits of the great fish of those waters, the sea-run cutthroat, salmon, steelhead, rainbow, and brown trout.
And solid advice on catching them. Raymond tells stories, too, of men like John Huelsdonk, the Iron Man of the Hoh, who killed one hundred cougars.
As much as it is a book about fish and rivers, it is also a book about life, about the passage of time, the seasons, man and his place in the environment, family, pain and pleasure. Truly a classic, The Year of the Angler and the Year of the Trout will find a place on every serious angler's shelf, if only to replace one imprudently loaned to a friend.

The Year of the Angler and The Year of the Trout have long been underground classics, the kind of books used-book sellers can't keep in stock, the ones its owners won't loan out. Now they're back in print, under one cover.
Raymond fishes Western waters, particularly in the Northwest. The pages of this book are filled with accounts of his adventures on various bodies of water in this region, including the Duwamish, the Stillaguamish, the Columbia, and Pass Lake. Here, too, are affectionate portraits of the great fish of those waters, and solid advice on catching them. Raymond also tells stories of men like John Huelsdonk, the "Iron Man" of the Hoh, who killed one hundred cougars.
Arnold Gingrich, the fly-fishing maven and editor of Esquire, ranked Steve Raymond with the great fishing writers, and Gingrich knew writers and good writing. So great is its reputation that a copy of The Year of the Angler was presented to the White House by the American Booksellers Association.
As much as this is a book about fish and rivers, it is also a book about life, about the passage of time, the seasons, man's place in the environment, and family. Truly a classic, The Year of the Angler and the Year of the Trout will find a place on every serious angler's shelf, if only to replace one imprudently loaned to a friend.

For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. Here, then, are some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging lions in the African bush to mountain goats in the mountain crags of the Rockies; from the gallant bird dogs of the Southern pinelands to the great Western hunts of Theodore Roosevelt.
This collection of stories captures the very soul of hunting.
With contributions from: Lt. Col. J. M. Patterson, D.S. O., Theodore Roosevelt, Nash Buckingham, Archibald Rutledge, Zane Grey, Lieutenant Townsend Whelen, Harold McCracken, Irvin S. Cobb, Edwin Main Post, Sir Richard Dane, Horace Kephart, Ivan Turgenev, Francis Parkman, William T. Hornaday, Sc.D, Rex Beach
Settle into an armchair, and let the expedition begin.

If you read Jackie Bushman's first book, Jackie Bushman's Top 50 Whitetail Tactics, you learned about his favorite techniques and strategies for hunting trophy-caliber whitetail bucks. In this, his second book, you will see how Jackie puts those tactics to use.
In Jackie Bushman's Big Buck Strategies, Bushman shows you through example how he gets all of those bucks. It is not luck, as you will see, but skill, coupled with experience and observation.
With more than thirty stories of trophy bucks, including the taking of the Buckmasters Logo buck, and special Tactical Breakdown sections, you'll be able to not only enjoy the hunts along with Jackie Bushman, but you will be able to apply his tactics to your own hunting situation.
After you have read Jackie Bushman's Big Buck Strategies, you'll be a smarter deer hunter. And that, in turn, means that your odds for success will be improved.

Written in a matter-of-fact, often humorous style, 'The Champion Buffalo Hunter' is the engaging memoir of one of the most famous frontiersmen of the early West, 'Yellowstone Vic' Smith. Recently discovered in Harvard's Houghton Library by editor Jeanette Prodgers, this remarkable account (told in the third person) is comparable to Andrew Garcia's 'Tough Trip through Paradise, ' but notes Prodgers, 'without the melodrama.'

The surf fishermen of Martha's Vineyard are the heroes of this collection. Brought together by a longtime Vineyard fisherman, these colorful men and women offer advice, insight, and the inevitable tall tales.
There is Nelson Bryant, about to haul in a fifty-pound striper only to be cut off by an unseasoned newcomer who casts a plug over his line. There is Whit Manter, doggedly pursuing the next strike, the next rush of adrenaline, the next exhilarating struggle far into the surf and the eerie blackness of the night. And Janet Messineo, dragging a Derby-winning bluefish across the beach at dawn. Hair matted, face drawn with fatigue, hands sliced and punctured, she's the epitome of the sporting woman.
Intense and determined, the surf fishermen face cold, exhaustion, or a line gone slack at the height of battle. They prowl the beaches, testing their wits and lures against the sea's bounty . . . and each other.
While the romance and excitement of the hunt is at the core of these tales, there is practical information to be gained-about the subtleties of tide and current, the phase of the moon, the direction of the wind, the best baits and lures. It's a stirring testament to one of the most delightful corners of angling, in one of its richest locales.

Most people who go fly fishing for trout practice the sport in the spring and early summer, when most waters in North America offer their most prolific hatches of insects, and the weather is pleasant. In Fishing the Four Seasons, Dave Hughes shows you that trout anglers need not limit themselves to such short seasons, and indeed that fine fly fishing for trout can be had all year long. In this ground-breaking volume, Hughes shows you: opportunities to take big trout even in the dead of winter; how to prepare yourself and your equipment for cold-weather fishing; why lakes and ponds can offer some of the best trout fishing available in early spring; how to catch trout in streams swollen with snowmelt; the best flies to use for early, mid-, and late summer fishing; why autumn, though often overlooked, can offer some of the year's best opportunities for taking trout on flies. (5 x 7 1/2, 144 pages, color photos, color illustrations, diagrams)

From the tidewaters of the Columbia River to the high desert in the east, Oregon waters offer something to every angler. Featuring the most accurate and up-to-date information on the state's fishing, Fishing Oregon details fishing access and boat ramps around the state, as well as tips and tackle recommendations. Whether its bass, trout, and bream that beckon from Oregon's lakes and streams, or steelhead and salmon fresh from the salt, this guide puts you on the water and onto the fish.

Jim Yuskavitch has fished the waters of Oregon for more than a quarter of a century. When he's not fishing, he is a full-time writer and photographer specializing in natural history.