Striper Pursuit is John Skinner’s latest book on surfcasting. Like his other books (Season on the Edge and Fishing Bucktails), Striper Pursuit is well written and overflowing with knowledge.
The breath and depth of the topics that John Skinner covers is extensive:
- How to fish artificial lures: poppers, swimmers, needles, darters, bucktails, metals, and soft plastics.
- How to keep eels alive, how to fish them, and how to rig them after they die.
- How to read the water to identify structure.
- How to fish under various weather conditions.
- Striped bass migrations, tide, time of day, and moon phase.
- The bait fish targeted by striped bass and their and migrations.
John Skinner extends the knowledge in his chapters via 46 QR codes that navigate you to videos related to the respective content. Learning the knowledge in these chapters will make you a good surfcaster. But! To become a great surfcaster, you must learn how all of this information integrates together. John Skinner’s chapter “Pattern Fishing and Large Stripers” will help you with the theory. In practice, you must keep a fishing journal to identifying patterns. Patterns will not only help you catch more fish; they will help you catch more quality fish consistently!
Are you a seasoned surfcaster? Do you want to take your surfcasting to the next level? Then buy and read Striper Pursuit. Page for page, you will get you money’s worth from this book.
