THE STRIPED BASS CHRONICLES: THE SAGA OF AMERICA'S GREAT GAME FISH

THE STRIPED BASS CHRONICLES: THE SAGA OF AMERICA'S GREAT GAME FISH The striped bass sustained American colonists throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, and went west with 19th-century pioneers. During the past one hundred years, however, Atlantic coastal stocks have been overfished three times to the brink of recreational extinction.Today, the stripers are back in such numbers that theyre the center of a saltwater fly-fishing revival. Author George Reiger recounts his own relationship to the striped bass, and traces the history of the great sport fish 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 despite todays bounty, the striper could be heading for another collapse unless prevailing fisheries turn to better conservation policies. THE STRIPED BASS CHRONICLES is a paean to a remarkable fishand a prayer for its future.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:GEORGE REIGER is conservation editor of Salt Water Sportsman, conservation editor emeritus of Field & Stream magazine, and federal commissioner for the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. He is also the author of more than a dozen books on fish, fishing, and outdoor recreation, including The Complete Book of North American Waterfowling, and the Pulitzer finalist, Wanderer on My Native Shore. He lives with his wife in Locustville, Virginia. ISBN: 1-59228-845-6 publish date: 03/15/2006