Publisher Description

For every surfcaster who has felt the tug of striped bass on the line and on the heart, here is a memoir by the renowned striper fisherman. New in paperback, the book is filled with people,[places and fish of a lifetime -- a book to be read in oilskins and waders.

Author Biography

Frank Daignault is the best-known and most revered striper fisherman in the north east US. A frequent contributor to 'Salt Water Fishman' and other outdoor magazines, and author of five previous books in striper fishing, he lives in Millville, Massacusetts.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: Ride the High Country or "They Went Thataway"; Cowboy Codes: Straight & Pure & All Boy; When We were Young: Nostalgia & the Cowboy Hero; Arms & the Man: The Friendly Gun; Give Me My Boots & Saddles: Camp Cowboy; Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range; White Hats & White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy?; Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, & Masculinity; Corporate Cowboys & the Shaping of a Nation; Postscript - The Frontiersman (1938); List of Films Mentioned; References; Index.

Review

"The Striper Coast's most colourful chronicler at the top of his game..." -- Outdoor Life. "No other book captures the dogged mentality of the surfcaster as well as this memoir..." -- Gray's Sporting Journal.

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"The Striper Coast's most colourful chronicler at the top of his game..." -- Outdoor Life.

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