THE STRIPED BASS CHRONICLES: THE SAGA OF AMERICA'S GREAT GAME FISH. By George Reiger. Illustrated by Christopher Reiger.

Reiger (George). (b. 1939).

ISBN 10: 155821478X / ISBN 13: 9781558214781

Published by Lyons & Burford. New York. 1997, 1997

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1997). 1997 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 234mm). Ppxiv,194. B/w illustrations, bibliography. Blue paper-covered boards, black spine titled in pale yellow. A fine copy in slightly spine-faded and shelf-worn dust-wrapper. Reiger relates the history of the overfishing and conservation of the striped bass together with much autobiographical anecdote. "George Reiger recounts his own relationship to the striped bass and traces the history of the great sportfish through such angling writers as Henry William Herbert and Robert Barnwell Roosevelt in the nineteenth century to Joe Brooks and Lefty Kreh in more recent decades. The book also demonstrates that the striper is heading for another collapse unless prevailing fisheries turn to better conservation policies. The Striped Bass Chronicles is a paean to a remarkable fish - and a prayer for its future." Chapters include:- Early records; Our fly-fishing pioneer; Capitol angling; Bring the jubilee; The Jersey shore; The silver rush; California dreaming; The Savannah River; The Chesapeake; Southern New England; The Kennebec River. Appendices include:- Striped bass age, length, and weight relationships; Twenty years ago; Saving the past; If you'd like to help. . Seller Inventory # 41650

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Title: THE STRIPED BASS CHRONICLES: THE SAGA OF ...

Publisher: Lyons & Burford. New York. 1997

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Reiger, Christopher

Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

The striped bass sustained American colonists through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and went west with nineteenth-century pioneers. During the past one hundred years, however, Atlantic coastal stocks have been over-fished three times to the brink of recreational extinction. Today, the stripers are back in such numbers they're the center of a saltwater fly-fishing revival. George Reiger recounts his own relationship to the striped bass and traces the history of the great sportfish through such angling writers as Henry William Herbert and Robert Barnwell Roosevelt in the nineteenth century to Joe Brooks and Lefty Kreh in more recent decades. The book also demonstrates that the striper is heading for another collapse unless prevailing fisheries turn to better conservation policies. The Striped Bass Chronicles is a paean to a remarkable fish - and a prayer for its future. (61/4 X 91/4, 212 pages, illustrations)