Books (Good reads) about fishing.

[MakoMatt]

I never remember reading that Matt Ahern passed. I saw a few of his seminars. He was an excellent speaker. He borrowed the old Henry Ford comment regarding color: (paraphrasing) “Use any color bucktail you want, as long as its white”. I still have the Uncle Josh Bucktail Kit he recommended.
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If anyone has links to his writing, please post it.

The Uncle Josh Bucktail Kit I have is much older than yours. Those are plastic jars of pork rind, and the buck tails are of a newer design from those used back in the day. The ones you posted resemble Spros. I still have containers of Uncle Josh Pork Rinds, but they are in glass containers, with metal screw caps. Basically they are glass jars of similar size to the newer plastic ones. The lids on mine show some signs of rust too.

 

[MakoMatt]

The Perfect Storm……. Great book, great movie. Perhaps my favorite part……….

“The fog's just lifting. Throw off your bow line; throw off your stern. You head out to South channel, past Rocky Neck, Ten Pound Island. Past Niles Pond where I skated as a kid. Blow your air-horn and throw a wave to the lighthouse keeper's kid on Thatcher Island. Then the birds show up: black backs, herring gulls, big dump ducks. The sun hits ya - head North. Open up to 12 - steamin' now. The guys are busy; you're in charge. Ya know what? You're a goddam swordboat captain! Is there any thing better in the world?”

There have been more than a few mornings when I have been “steaming” offshore and as false dawn begins to appear those words enter my mind. LOL, and I’m not a sword fisherman.

One of the Coast Guard jumpers who in real life was part of that story, has spoken at my club, Freeport Tuna Club, on a couple of occasions.