About the Author

Tom Schlichter

Tom Schlichter lives with his family in Southold, New York. Long Island’s foremost authority on freshwater fishing, he is the outdoors columnist for Newsday, a former field editor for The Fisherman Magazine, and a current member of the Outdoor Writers of America Association, New York State Outdoor Writers Association, and the Metropolitan Outdoor Press Association.

An award winning author and photographer, Tom has penned over 3,000 outdoors articles for both local and national magazines including Salt Water Sportsman, The Fisherman Magazine, Offshore/Northeast Boating, Sports Afield, and New York Outdoors. Tom also lectures frequently on both freshwater and saltwater fishing, and contributes regularly to a variety of outdoor websites, radio and television shows. He has authored three other books: Coastal Angling Guide, Northeast Party Boat Fishing, and How to Catch Clams by the Bushel!

Tom has prowled every location mentioned in this book in pursuit of all types of angling action, having fished Long Island’s waters for over 40 years. With a well-earned reputation for catching lunkers, he is as comfortable casting flies and lures as he is using bait for anything from bass, trout and pickerel to panfish, catfish and carp. By his estimate, Tom has decked roughly 600 Long Island largemouth bass weighing in excess of four pounds. He includes among his most notable Long Island freshwater catches both rainbow and brown trout to eight pounds, largemouth bass to 7-3/4 pounds, pickerel to four pounds and carp to 32 pounds.

Long an advocate for conservation and enlightened fisheries management, Tom personally follows a strict catch-and-release credo and has returned nearly every freshwater game fish he has caught in Long Island waters over the past 25 years to live and fight another day.

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

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