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Fisherman's Coast: An Angler's Guide to Marine Warm-Water Gamefish and Their Habitats »

Authors: Aaron J. Ph. D. J. Adams
ISBN-13: 9780811731058, ISBN-10: 0811731057
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Aaron J. Ph. D. Adams

Book Synopsis

Marine researcher Aaron Adams shares his knowledge about sea grass, mangroves, salt marshes, oyster bars, shorelines, beaches, sand flats, and coral reefs from the Caribbean to the Carolinas, the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida coast, to give you what you need to know to fish for tropical, subtropical, and warm-water species. Behavior, life cycles, and fishing tips for 25 marine gamefish and their prey are included. Species include red drum, spotted seatrout, permit, bonefish, snook, tarpon, barracuda, snapper, ladyfish, weakfish, bluefish, striped bass, cobia, cero mackerel, Spanish mackerel, and jacks.

Author Biography: Aaron Adams works for Mote Marine Laboratory at the Charlotte Harbor Field Station in southern Florida.

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Preface	xi
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	Life Cycles of Marine Gamefish and Their Prey	5
	The Larval Stage	6
	The Juvenile Stage	7
	The Adult Stage	11
	Applying What You've Learned: Taking Advantage of Juvenile Prey	12
	Seasonality of Gamefish Prey	13
	Applying What You've Learned: Seasonality of Prey Species Life Cycles	14
	Spawning Gamefish	14
	Temperature	15
	Local Nuances	16
Chapter 2	Seagrass	17
	Species of Seagrass and Their Environmental Requirements	20
	Applying What You've Learned: Reading Seagrass	24
	Applying What You've Learned: Spotted Seatrout	26
	Seagrass as Habitat	26
	Fishing in Patchy Seagrass	30
	Applying What You've Learned: Tailing Red Drum	34
	Gamefish Prey	35
	Time of Day	50
	Applying What You've Learned: Seasonal Strategies for Gamefish in Grass Beds	50
	Stewardship	52
Chapter 3	Mangroves	53
	Mangrove Species and Their Ecological Attributes	54
	Red Mangroves	55
	Applying What You've Learned: Bonefish along the Mangroves	56
	Black Mangroves	59
	Applying What You've Learned: Black Mangrove Shorelines	60
	Gamefish Prey in the Mangroves	61
	Location Matters	72
	Time of Day	74
	Seasons in the Mangroves	74
	Applying What You've Learned: Gamefish in the Mangroves	77
	Stewardship	80
Chapter 4	Oyster Bars	83
	Ecological Requirements	85
	Types of Oyster Bars	86
	Currents	88
	Tidal Range	89
	Salinity	90
	Applying What You've Learned: Exploring Oyster Bars	91
	Applying What You've Learned: Basic Fishing Tactics	92
	Oyster Bar Habitats	96
	Seasonality	98
	Gamefish Prey	98
	Applying What You've Learned: Fishing at Dawn and Dusk	103
	Resident Prey Fish	104
	Seasonal Prey Fish	107
	Applying What You've Learned: Fly Selection	109
	Applying What You've Learned: Be Ready for Baitfish	110
	Stewardship	112
Chapter 5	Salt Marshes	113
	High and Low Marsh Zones	115
	Applying What You've Learned: Finding Gamefish in Salt Marshes	119
	Applying What You've Learned: Red Drum in the Salt Marsh	121
	Tides	123
	Applying What You've Learned: Fishing the Tides	125
	Gulf versus Atlantic Coastal Salt Marshes	127
	Salt Marsh Food Web	130
	Gamefish Prey	131
	Applying What You've Learned: Strategies for Murky Water	137
	Applying What You've Learned: Seasonal Strategies	138
	Stewardship	140
Chapter 6	Beaches	143
	Waves	144
	Applying What You've Learned: Basic Strategies for Fishing the Surf	146
	Shifting Sands	149
	Applying What You've Learned: Summer Beachside Snook	152
	Gamefish Prey	153
	Applying What You've Learned: Seasonality and the Fall Feeding Frenzy	158
	Beaches of the Tropics	161
	Applying What You've Learned: Tarpon Blitzes	162
	Applying What You've Learned: Strategy for Fishing Protected Beaches	167
	Applying What You've Learned: Tarpon at Dusk	168
	Gamefish Prey	170
	Tropical Beachrock Shorelines	171
	Stewardship	173
Chapter 7	Rubble Flats and Sand Flats of the Tropics	175
	Rubble Flats of the Backreef	175
	Shoreline Rubble Flats	180
	Sand Flats	183
Appendix A	Table of Common Gamefish	189
Appendix B	Table of Major Prey Groups	191
	References and Further Reading	193
	Index	207

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