About the Book

Long Island’s Best Freshwater Fishing
By Tom Schlichter

Can you name six Long Island lakes that have produced largemouth bass weighing over nine pounds? Do you know the most productive beats and fly patterns for catching monster brown and rainbow trout on the Connetqout and Nissequogue Rivers? Can you nail a 30-pound carp, catch a pickerel as long as your arm or tempt walleyes, crappie and bronzebacks within a few miles of home? Can you find Bubbles Falls, Rattlesnake Creek, Deep Pond, Wildwood Lake or Swan Pond?

You’ll learn all this and more from Long Island’s Best Freshwater Fishing, by Tom Schlichter. This 144-page book covers more than 70 of Long Island’s most productive freshwater honey holes. From Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn to Big Reed Pond in Montauk, Schlichter provides keen insight about when, where and how to fish at each of the waters discussed. Over 100 high-quality photos – all taken on Long Island - cover the action in detail. From lunker lakes and fast-action hot spots, to super lures and techniques that work anywhere, Schlichter covers every angle.

As Newsday’s outdoors columnist, and a former field editor for The Fisherman Magazine, Tom Schlichter is an award-winning outdoors writer with a well-earned reputation for catching monster bass, trout, carp and pickerel in local waters. A resident of Southold, New York, he has fished Long Island’s rivers, streams, lakes and ponds for over 40 years. There is no guess-work here - Schlichter has personally caught big fish at every location covered.

At $16.95 Long Island’s Best Freshwater Fishing is an inexpensive must-have resource whether you fish seriously for bass and trout or just want to take the family out for some sweetwater fun. It features an easy-to-read seven-by-ten-inch format and includes contour maps for many hot spots. The book is available at local tackle shops and bookstores, and here on the web at www.OutdoorTom.com. Copies can also be ordered by mail at: OutdoorTom, P.O. Box 462, Southold, NY 11971 (include $3.50 for postage and handling).

For more information, contact:
OutdoorTom, P.O. Box 462,
Southold, NY 11971
outdoortom@optonline.net

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