This is a truly exhaustive guide to California lakes and rivers and one of the best we have ever come across. With more than 400 bodies of water covered, it’s hard to find any other resource that is this complete. If you are planning a trip to California or just looking for some new places [...]

Continue reading → Foghorn Outdoors California Recreational Lakes and Rivers By Tom Sienstra

If you’ve been considering making that transition towards living aboard, this is the go-to resource for everything you’ll ever need to know. We highly recommend this book since it does go into such detail that all of your questions should be answered. It was nice to find a resource that was so complete, thought provoking [...]

Continue reading → The Essentials of Living Aboard a Boat By Mark Nicholas

This book is designed to cater to grades four through six, and specifically children who are already familiar with the basics associated with fishing but that want to learn more about this unique recreational sport. This book covers a wide variety of different topics on fishing for children, including approaching the water, the necessary equipment, [...]

Continue reading → Review: The Barefoot Fisherman: A Fishing Book for Kids by Paul Amdahl

When it comes to freshwater fishing, one can never learn everything there is to know. What the book entitled “What Fish Don’t Want You to Know – An Insider’s Guide to Freshwater Fishing” provides is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of freshwater fishing; tips and tricks, anecdotes and commonsense information all within a a [...]

Continue reading → Review: What Fish Don’t Want You to Know – An Insider’s Guide to Freshwater Fishing

Federal law may not require boaters to take a safety course of any kind, but that does not mean that boaters should hit the water without a good working knowledge of the basics. Making states do require that boaters below a certain age limit pass a safety course before they be allowed to legally operate [...]

Continue reading → Review: Boater101: A full-reference guide to boating basics

The “why” behind boat docking is not what is important, but instead you should be focusing on the “how to”. The How To’s found within this book will lead you to learn how to successfully dock your boat, even when the winds are strong or the currents are stronger. This book presents local knowledge possessed [...]

Continue reading → Review: 7 Steps to Successful Boat Docking by Ron Redmond and Katherine Redmond

Larry Larsen has built up a reputation as one of the most talented bass fisherman in the world and now he’s going to share all of his secrets. That sounded pretty good and sure piqued our interest in this book. Bass fishing can be tricky, and it’s always great to pick up some new tips. [...]

Continue reading → Bass Tactics By Larry Larsen

There are few books dedicated to rhapsodizing on tuna fish, but this is one of the few, and we are not ashamed to say that we loved every single page. If you love tuna, fishing for it, preparing it and eating it, you are pretty much guaranteed to feel the same way. When you’re dealing [...]

Continue reading → Tuna, a Love Story By Richard Ellis

If you’ve been thinking about making your own boat, but you’re worried that you don’t have the kind of equipment or the time to really make a masterpiece, this book is simply an incredible resource that will make it easy. Although traditional methods of small boat manufacturing are time consuming and require a lot of [...]

Continue reading → Review of Devlin’s Boatbuilding: How to Build Any Boat the Stitch-and-Glue Way by Samuel Devlin

Every single boating magazine and reviewer that picked up this book had the same comment – it’s impossible to put down. We decided to put that to the test and see just how useful Vigor’s book is. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the hype was well justified. It actually was a book that [...]

Continue reading → The Practical Mariners Book of Knowledge By John Vigor