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The Ultimate Guide to Surfcasting | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ron Arra, Curt Garfield
Creator: Nelson Bryant
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 185533
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 1585742996
Dewey Decimal Number: 799.16
EAN: 9781585742998
ASIN: 1585742996
Publication Date: November 1, 2001
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Condition: Thank you for looking at Bookscorner1, May have shelf wear and a remainder mark.
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Product Description
Casting distance is the key to successful surf fishing. In The Ultimate Guide to Surfcasting, Ron Arra - five-time winner of the United States surfcasting championship - reveals the techniques that made him a casting champion, and explains how to apply these skills under genuine fishing conditions on the beach, as well as on the tournament field. Arra fully explains techniques for the off-the-beach cast, the overhead beach cast, the modified pendulum cast, the light-tackle cast, and many more. The helpful recommendations for lure and rig selection, tackle, and tuning reels for maximum distance will help any surf fisherman to cast and fish with authority. With scores of step-by-step photographs of Arra in action, and clear descriptions of all the nuances of distance casting, The Ultimate Guide to Surfcasting will improve the casting and fish-catching potential of novice and veteran surfcasters alike. (6 x 9, 152 pages, b&w photos)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Primarily Casting April 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book,even beyond the learning experience. I have been fishing all my life and yet never heard of this method of casting. The book is well written, mostly about the casting technique, but with his passion for surf fishing clearly displayed. You can cast further following his advice, if only from learning to examine what you are doing during every moment of a cast. Larry
 Great Book, But... December 26, 2006
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book has some great tips, but the illustrations are awful. Buy it and see for yourself. Or don't, I really don't care.
 This could be a much better book December 26, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Hopefully, Ron Arra will write another book with more competent guidance. He is a great surfcaster and fisherman, but there are problems with this disappointing book. The main shortcoming is dreadful illustration -- the pictures reproduced on cheap paper are photographed from the wrong perspective with the wrong lighting. The drawings are sparse. You simply cannot see the fishing rod and line position that are the subjects and purpose of the illustrations. Because the book is billed as "Complete Instructions for Longer Casting..." you would expect an A-B-C guide to surfcasting. Other useful information may be ferreted out of what reads more like edited taped interviews of fishing advice and yarns illustrating how to fish. That is not all bad -- you may learn a few tricks as you re-read this opposite-of-a-textbook. If one looks beyond the sparse drawings and bad pictures, one can garner some good tips that may come in handy. Two things learned from reading the book over and over, trying to absorb the wisdom therein: you can cast very far if you know what you are doing, and the Eastern Seaboard has some great surf fishing. I am in in the Pacific Northwest where surf fishing mostly results in tasty perch. I was hoping I might find some wisdom that would reveal there are bigger fish that prey on those perch in that very same surf. This is an East Coast book that needs serious revision. This is a little weird as Lamiglas in Western Washington State makes a terrific line of Ron Arra rods. They need to buy him a Washington fishing license and finance a few months of surf fishing research. I believe there is a hidden fishery that Ron Arra could uncover.
Great Book! Awesome Info! November 27, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a fisherman of nearly 20 years I figured there wasn't much more I could learn in the way of technique. After completing the first chapter I realized I was mistaken and continued through the book. I found the information to be extremely helpful and interesting just the same. With each new technique were photograph's displaying the step by step motions to help the reader grasp the concept and lesson. The visual aids were key! I wont say that after completing this book you'll be on a cable network fishing show, but it will improve the way you fish if you're looking to do that. Definately a first rate book!
 Good book November 24, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Reading the reviews before I received the book, I had plans of returning it unopened. Well curiosity got to me and I opened it and read quickly through it. #1 the print and pictures are too small. #2 the pictures are in black and white . #3..the book appears to be written in the 1950's. Read all the reviews here..and you'll know what you are getting!....The only plus thing is the reduction in the price..I would say the 12.00 price from amazon saves this purchase from being a total disaster. Don't get expressed shipping since it will make the total purchase price 23.00 which is too much for this book..
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