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By Tom Earnhardt

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Travel Agent "There is no perfect boat for all fish and all water conditions," Earnhardt warns. "Be sure that in choosing a 'compromise boat' you don't end up with a boat that is unsuitable for your favorite kind of fishing and the water conditions that you normally encounter. Remember: Too many anglers buy boats for the fishing they might do, rather than for the fishing they usually do."

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Hotel Chicago Much of the book is devoted to powerboats, which makes sense because these represent the majority of fishing boats (and most of the money invested in boats and motors). Different chapters explore hull designs (flat-bottomed, V-shaped, flats-boat hulls, tri-hulls, catamarans and round bottoms) and the advantages and disadvantages of each; trim (keeping your boat trimmed properly, correct weight distribution, use of trim tabs, trimming the motor); and materials and construction (including pros and cons of E-glass, S-glass, Kevlar, graphite, aluminum and wood).

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Hotel Reservation Earnhardt offers plenty of anecdotes to help illustrate his points and writes with an easy, relaxed style. If you already own a boat, this book will help you get more out of it and take better care of it. If you're contemplating buying a new boat, it will help even more.

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Travel Medical Insurance This is a book you should read, even if you don't enjoy it - and you probably won't. Compiled by the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, a nonprofit institution established to continue the work of Sen. John Heinz, it offers a probing look at the tangled mess of modern American fisheries management.

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Las Vegas Nevada Travel All these issues are spelled out in detail in the book's nine chapters. Unfortunately, recreational fishing is treated almost as an afterthought. Of the 77 people interviewed, only two had anything at all to do with sport fishing - both officers of angling associations - and their voices are virtually drowned out by all the others.

Las Vegas Nv Hotel There were no interviews with guides, tackle-shop owners, boat builders, marina owners, motor manufacturers or any of the countless other businesses associated with sport fishing. As a result, the book's lengthy discussion of fishing economics fails to take into account the fact, proven by study after study, that a sport-caught fish has much greater economic value than one harvested commercially. Thus the book's treatment of both the social and economic aspects of fisheries management is incomplete and badly flawed.

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Orlando Travel So despite its biases and weaknesses, Fishing Grounds still offers many details and insights that will help anglers fight the battles necessary to solve America's fisheries management problems and assure sustainable fisheries in the future. That's why you should read it, even if you don't enjoy it.

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