readers review

Here are some feedback I received via email from those who read The Art of Surfcasting with Lures book

Hey Zeno,
I picked up your book a couple weeks back and am slowly getting may way through it. I say slowly b/c I keep re-reading sections and making notes for myself. My transition into a plug-aholic started this year and I have learned so much from your book so far and I'm only half way through it.
I find myself trying to read currents, waves, wind, depth, cresting water, rips, white foam, etc... all the time now. I believe the conditions of central connecticut shoreline are different than the N or S shores of LI, but none the less; I am trying to incorporate your book to the CT shoreline. Again thanks again for putting together such a great book.
Kevin from CT via email

Just wanted to send you a note to let you know how much I enjoyed your book! I received it as a Christmas present and have read it three times already. With each read I gain a bit more knowledge. I now reside in PA but continue to drive up to CT and RI when time permits to wet the line. (grew up in CT) When I catch my 50 I'll shoot you a photo. I keep a camera with me at all times while in the suds! Thanks again for a great book!
Regards,
Doug O'Connor

I just wanted to tell you while on vacation in Kittery, Maine this weekend I picked up a copy of your book at the trading post. I absolutely love it. It is one of the best books I have ever read and a lot of the things you do with bucktails I can convert into fly-fishing. I also love the way you describe the structure and strategies. If you write another book, I will be first in line to buy it!

Tyler O'Neill.

I just finished your book and I can't thank you enough for deciding to write it. I subscribe to the New Jersey Angler magazine and I say it featured there. The knowledge you impart, not to mention your wit, is priceless. I live in Philly and only get down the shore for vacation and once or twice more a year if I'm lucky, so your book alone saves me COUNTLESS hours of trial and error. I've had luck fishing the inlets but the breakdown and detail you give to everything makes it so much clearer and easier to adjust to whatever the circumstances I am up against. I will also try the surf this year with actual confidence this year. I will recommend this book to anyone who'll listen and I'm also going to tell the owners of our local tackle shop (Brinkman's) about it. If they don't already know it. Thanks again for deciding to share your hard earned knowledge and secrets with others. This book would help ANYONE who fishes the shore at all, whether occasionally or all the time. I think it should be required reading for all the time and aggravation you'd save people!!

I just finished reading your book and it is awesome. I'm not a "pat on the back" kinda guy, but you deserve it.

I have been reading your book The Art of Surfcasting With Lures and want to let you know directly how much I am enjoying it. As my family would be only too happy to tell you, I have a considerable collection of fishing books. Some of them are very good and some are not, but your book is a real treat to read, as well as extremely informative. I find myself thinking that I really should be underlining or highlighting the book's strategies and lessons -- there are so many good points persuasively made that I doubt I can remember them all.

I also appreciate the humor and the anecdotes. This is true especially since, unlike in some fishing writing, these stories serve to illustrate as well as entertain: it's not just one story after another. This is a book which really lives up to its claim to educate as well as entertain.

Hi Zeno..... I was in Scott's Bait/Tackle shop down here in Bradley Beach, NJ, when a sample "The Art of Surfcasting with Lures" came in. I browsed through it and immediately couldn't stop reading it, so I told them they should definitely order some to sell. I bought one as soon as they got them in and couldn't put the book down since I got it. I just finished it and had to let you know it was the BEST surf fishing book I have read.

I'm 57 and my neighbor got me into Striper Fishing this summer and I love it. I read 3 books just prior to yours, but yours was fantastic. I haven't giving up trying to get that big one even though it's December and I will be re-reading your book again when the Spring season is upon us.

Your last chapter fishing with kids was a touching ending too, because I'm a single full time dad of a 14 yr old daughter and it's great doing things together.

You have put into words a lot of things that I have felt true but have not seen or heard form other sources. The thing I like/respect most of all about your book, yours in one of the first surf fishing book that tell the reader how to, through stories, situations, or close friends. I've only found this kind of book available in saltwater fly-fishing. I recommend your book to everyone I know. Its funny, there’s a lot of plugs on the market, but there are not many books to let the surfcaster know which one may swim or be more effective in different conditions. There are a lot of guys without the experience, that will use lets say a Surfster in horrible conditions. Instead of going to a plug that’s a little more stable. Unfortunately, they just don't know which one may serve them best. But you've let them know with your well written book.