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Fishing Yesterday's Gulf Coast (Volume 3) (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) by Farley, Barney; Hawn, George S.; McEachron, L. W.; Moloney, Jim; Farley, Keith is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fishing Yesterday's Gulf Coast (Volume 3) (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) about?
Renowned fishing guide Barney Farley worked the Texas coastal waters out of Port Aransas for more than half a century. In these stories and reflections, Farley imparts a lifetime of knowledge about fish\_silver trout, sand trout, speckled trout, redfish, ling, catfish, jack, kingfish, you name it\_and gives advice about how to fish, where to fish, and when to fish. Perhaps no one could chronicle the changes in sport and commercial fishing along the Central Texas Coast more ably and more passionately than Farley. When he came to Texas in 1910, he reported that he could get in a rowboat and using only a push pole, make his way "to the fishing grounds and catch a hundred pounds or more of trout and redfish" in a few hours. A couple of years later, the shrimp trawlers arrived. As they plied the Gulf in increasing numbers, they depleted the shrimp populations in the bays, and Farley watched the fish move farther and farther offshore, following their ever more elusive food source. From his perspective in the mid1960s, Farley was not satisfied simply to lament the disappearance of onceabundant species. He also strongly voiced his views on the need for conservation. Many of the problems he
Who reads Fishing Yesterday's Gulf Coast (Volume 3) (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Farley, Barney; Hawn, George S.; McEachron, L. W.; Moloney, Jim; Farley, Keith
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781603443913
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Nature, Sports, Agriculture
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