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Title Born to fish : how an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman / Tim Gallagher and Greg Myerson.
Author Gallagher, Tim, author.
Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
©2018
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Description xiii, 205 pages ; 24 cm
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Summary Striped bass world-record holder and inventor of the indisputably effective RattleSinker lure, Greg Myerson overcame a violent, difficult youth to triumph in the world of sportfishing.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents At the turning of the tide -- Born to fish -- Married to the mob -- Trapper Greg -- A big fish -- Gridiron glory -- El Cid -- Mob justice -- Busted -- Herb's illness -- The Phantom -- the Rattler -- Wild man -- Rasta mon -- Into the West -- The deerslayer -- After the storm -- Wounded tiger -- Rock bottom -- It's over -- Arrowhead -- Tournament angler -- One more drift -- Anatomy of a world-record catch -- Aftermath -- The striped bass dilemma -- Entrepreneur -- So you want to be a TV star? -- Into the shark tank -- the pendulum swings.
Subject Myerson, Greg.
Fishers -- Connecticut -- Biography.
Bass fishing.
Genre Biographies.
Added Author Myerson, Greg, author.
Related To Online version: Gallagher, Tim. Born to fish. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 9780544787452 (DLC) 2018005335
ISBN 9780544787247 hardcover ; alkaline paper : $26.00
0544787242 hardcover ; alkaline paper