Born to Fish: How an Obsessed Angler Became the World's Greatest Striped Bass Fisherman

Tim Gallagher, Greg Myerson

ISBN 10: 0544787242 / ISBN 13: 9780544787247

Published by Houghton Mifflin, US, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Born to Fish: How an Obsessed Angler Became the World's Greatest Striped Bass Fisherman
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, US
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0544787242
• ISBN 13: 9780544787247
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

From RattleSinker inventor Grey Myerson, "an extraordinary story of one man's obsession, a tale of passion, brutality, tragedy, and redemption...a book about a love of fishing that tackles the deepest themes of life" (Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk).

Born to Fish tells the tale of a man who led a harrowing, sometimes dissolute life until he turned himself around, thanks to his rod and reel. Overcoming learning disabilities, substance abuse, and the violence associated with a father in the mob, Greg Myerson, a lifelong sport-fisherman, caught an 82-pound striped bass in 2011, shattering a world record that had stood for 29 years. 

Without any training in biological research, he began studying the striped bass like a scientist—examining how it hunts, the food it eats, how its behavior is affected by moon phases and the cycles of the tides—which led to the creation of the RattleSinker, the lure that helped him catch the record-setting bass. During an appearance on the TV show Shark Tank, Mark Cuban bought a 33 percent share of Greg's company, World Record Striper Company.

Yet at the very instant he achieved his crowning glory as a striped bass fisherman, he had a staggering epiphany and instantly regretted killing the fish. Greg is now at the forefront of the effort to save the big striped bass, the most prolific breeders, and actively promotes no-kill catch-and-release tournaments.
 

About the Author

As TIM GALLAGHER was working on his book The Grail Bird, he was among the first to sight the long-thought-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas, which led to a multi-million-dollar effort to confirm the sighting and protect the bird's dwindling habitat. The sighting changed the direction of the book, for which Gallagher won the Outdoor Writers Association of America's Best Book award for 2005. Gallagher is the former editor-in-chief of Living Bird magazine and the Journal of the North American Falconers' Association.