Biographical note:

Joe Cermele started his career in outdoor journalism in 2004, covering fishing tournaments for a local magazine in his home state of New Jersey. In 2005, while attending Rider University, he became an intern at Salt Water Sportsman magazine, joining the editorial staff full time that same year after graduation. In 2008, he moved to sister publication Field & Stream, where he was named Fishing Editor in 2011. His writing appears monthly in the magazine, he blogs weekly on the magazine’s website, and also hosts and produces Field & Stream’s Hook Shots, an award-winning web-based fishing show with a punk-rock edge. Cermele has fished all over the country and abroad, but when he’s not traveling on assignment, you can find him on his boat chasing tuna and striped bass off the Jersey coast, pitching tubes to smallmouth bass on the Delaware River, or flyfishing for trout in New York’s Catskill Mountains.

Main description:

Gear Up How to pick the best lures, baits, flies, and tackle for any situation and any style of water you plan to fish. Learn how to customize your gear, get the most out of your boat, and more.

Set the Hook Whether you’re bobber fishing for bluegills with the kids or heading out after the muskie of a lifetime, the techniques and tactics in this book will make your trip a success.

Hit the Water From small streams to major rivers, ponds to big lakes, and bays to the open ocean, hundreds of field-tested strategies will help you catch more fish with or without a boat.

Find the Fish Professional fishing guides from across the country tell you how and where to find lunker bass, trophy walleyes, huge trout, and much more right in your home waters.

When it comes to fishing, nobody knows more than the writers and editors at Field & Stream magazine--unless it's the guides, prize winners, and other experts they interviewed to create this book. In 324 tips and tricks, this comprehensive handbook covers everything from flyfishing to bass boats to surfcasting, and more. Individual chapters break down how to build the ultimate tackle box, best bait and lures for every species, techniques to catch all of the most popular gamefish, and tactics for fishing ponds, rivers, lakes, and oceans in every season. Whether you're a weekend angler looking to hook your kid on fishing or a serious sport fisher looking for that big trophy bass, this book has the information you need, presented with tons of color photos and handy illustrations.