The Essential Bait Field Guide For Eastern Canada The Great Lakes Region And Northeastern United States

Featuring baitfish, minnows, small fishes, crayfishes, frogs and leeches. This field guide provides clear identification of many smaller denizens of our ecosystem, including some undesirable invaders. Vivid illustrations by renowned artists Joe Tomelleri, Wally Edwards, and Aleta Karstad prove to be a highlight. Anglers, cottagers, campers, biologists, in fact, everyone interested in the outdoors can benefit from this concise book. Focused on Ontario and the species prevelant in the Great Lakes and Eastern Canada, this guide has applications, all or in part, in much of Canada and Northeastern North America. Four colour illustrations throughout.

This comprehensive guide has been written and illustrated by leading experts in the bait industry, and is an essential tool for serious students of the outdoors. Baitfish harvesters, anglers, biologists, resource managers, and all others keenly interested in the water world and its smaller denizens, will find this guide to be a "must have" for their personal libraries.

From the award-winning birder and author of Birds of Prey, an authoritative, information-packed guide to distinguishing North American birds. In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the “Cape May School of Birding.” It's an approach to identification that gives equal or more weight to a bird's structure and shape and the observer's overall impression (often called GISS, for General Impression of Size and Shape) than to specific field marks. After determining the most likely possibilities by considering such factors as habitat and season, the birder uses characteristics such as size, shape, color, behavior, flight pattern, and vocalizations to identify a bird. The book provides an arsenal of additional hints and helpful clues to guide a birder when, even after a review of a field guide, the identification still hangs in the balance. This supplement to field guides shares the knowledge and skills that expert birders bring to identification challenges. Birding should be an enjoyable pursuit for beginners and experts alike, and Pete Dunne combines a unique playfulness with the work of identification. Readers will delight in his nicknames for birds, from the Grinning Loon and Clearly the Bathtub Duck to Bronx Petrel and Chicken Garnished with a Slice of Mango and a Dollop of Raspberry Sherbet.

"By the end of this Primer, you will: understand the federal and Ontario legislation and regulations pertinent to the use of baitfishes; be able to identify small fish species; be able to distinguish between legal and illegal baitfishes; recognize the importance of baitfish habitat; understand the potential impacts of improper baitfish use; and, understand how to minimize negative impacts to our aquatic ecosystems"--Introduction, page 4.

Newly updated for 2016, the Western New York Fishing Map Guide is a thorough, easy-to-use collection of detailed contour lake maps, fish stocking and survey data and the best fishing spots and tips from area experts. Fishing maps, detailed area road maps and exhaustive fishing information for lakes in the western half of the Empire State are provided in this handy eBook. This book contains 71 lakes including the Finger Lakes, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and stream coverage. Whether you’re casting bucktails for muskies on Chautauqua Lake, jigging up some walleyes on Conesus Lake or trolling Lake Erie or Lake Ontario for walleyes, trout and salmon, you'll find all the information you need to enjoy a successful day out on the water on one of the region's many excellent fisheries. Know your waters. Catch more fish with the Western New York Fishing Map Guide.

Essential Flies for the Great Lakes Region is the first-ever collection of Great Lakes patterns for steelhead, salmon, brown trout, and musky by contemporary tiers of the region. Patterns and recipes for over 600 flies, photographed by Jimmy Chang, cover historically important patterns as well as the latest cutting-edge flies.