Angling in the Smile of the Great Spirit - Revised paperback edition

This is not your usual fishing book! It explores and shares the deep love that anglers have for fishing, including the folklore, philosophy and nobility of angling, motivations, secrets, tips, techniques, and the mystique of waters. Are anglers nuts? Or is their quest a noble one? Or both? And is there a danger of evolving technology transforming fishing into a NASCAR kind of sport? This book contains six centuries of wisdom from the 15 Master Anglers of Lake Winnipesaukee. This is the first and only definitive book on angling in Lake Winnipesaukee, the sixth largest natural lake in the US not contiguous with Canada. A labor of love that took almost a decade to write, the book also gives readers a glimpse into diversity and skills of this revered group. You may know some of them like retired teacher, Chuck French and forester, Carl Gebhardt, he says. Or 95-year-young Barbara Cotton, the oldest living proprietor of an Orvis Fly shop in America the Opechee Trading Post. Rick Davis , who also heads up the Winni Salmon Derby; Bill Martel, of Martel s Bait and Tackle; Jim Warner from Wolfeboro, a famous fly creator; Al Stewart who recently passed on and lived on tiny two-mile island with no electricity and a white picket fence around it; Mario DeCarolis, one of the most colorful, successful, and humorous of the anglers; Ted St. Onge, the Master Angler who stalks trophy salmon relying mainly on water temperature as his guide; the late Paul Philippe, an accountant named Bean Counter on the marine radio, who did empirical studies of various lures, depth and techniques; Steve Perry, head of the Inland Fisheries Division of N.H. Fish &Game; Alan Nute, owner of AJs Bait & Tackle in Meredith; and two young upstart Master Anglers, both of whom are excellent fishing guides, Travis Williams and Jay Parent. The first half of the book contains chapters on each of the major fish in the lake from my perspective as well as some scientific information on each, explains Hal.