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In Getting Your Big Fish, Registered Maine Guide Tom Seymour teaches all you need to know about rods, reels, lines, bait, and more. He’ll reel you in with his tips and tricks backed up by many years’ worth of personal anecdotes and experience with landing fish. Keep it with your tackle. It’s a better fishing tool than any flashy lure.

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“Tom is able to convey his knowledge and experience to his readers using an easy-going, informal writing style—heavy on the factual information; light on pretense and grandstanding." –Will Lund​, Editor, The Maine Sportsman​.

​​​Despite routinely catching the largest fish of all, people who troll for trout, salmon and togue still represent a minority of Maine’s anglers. Trollers need never contend with the fly-fishing crowds, and their tackle permits them to send their bait down deep where the biggest fish await.

​Many people still associate trolling as a sedentary sport using bulky gear and tackle, but heavy and unwieldy gear is a thing of the past. Seymour provides a thorough and comprehensive guide of the advancements made to trolling gear. Lines are new and improved, rods and reels are thinner, making gear lighter and stronger than ever before. “So if you ever entertained any notion of pursuing the art of trolling, there was never a better time to do so than now. And get set to hook on to some of the biggest trout you ever saw,” urges Seymour. ​

The age-old practice of lake trolling has now become the wave of the future. Getting Your Big Fish by Tom Seymour will help anglers to catch that wave

Seymour’s guide to trolling the lakes and rivers of Maine is packed full of the secret tips needed for an angler to finally catch fish that can be measured in pounds, not inches. At which depth are fish hiding in a cold-water lake? What lure is the most effective for brook trout? Which season will provide your best chance to catch a trophy fish? Getting Your Big Fish is ready to serve as your quick reference when you’re floundering.

The age-old practice of lake trolling has now become the wave of the future. Getting Your Big Fish by Tom Seymour will help anglers to catch that wave. 

“Tom is able to convey his knowledge and experience to his readers using an easy-going, informal writing style—heavy on the factual information; light on pretense and grandstanding. Because of his vast knowledge of the flora and fauna of the natural world, Tom Seymour sets his fishing experiences in the proper environmental context —revealing why lakes turn over, how fish behave differently after ice-out, and the manner in which anglers and their quarry fit into the seasonal cycles of lakes, ponds, streams and brooks.
​With Getting Your Big Fish: Trolling Maine Waters, Tom makes an invaluable contribution to the body of timeless literary works that will allow us all become more effective, efficient and productive anglers.” –Will Lund, Editor, The Maine Sportsman

An avid writer as well as a naturalist, Seymour writes four regular columns and a multitude of features including his popular “Maine Wildlife” for The Maine Sportsman Magazine. Seymour's credits include articles in other outdoor publications as well as published books including, Forager's Notebook, Wild Plants of Maine, Hidden World Revealed: Musings Of A Maine Naturalist, Getting Your Big Fish: Trolling Maine Waters and coming soon Wild Critters of Maine. All from Just Write Books. He lives in a small cabin in Waldo, Maine.

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Just Write Books LLC, an independent publishing company based in Topsham, Maine, publishes Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories. JWB uses its trademarked High Point Publishing System with state-of-the-art technology mixed with old-fashioned writing, editing, publishing, and marketing skills to help writers become authors and authors reach their publishing goals.

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