The Complete Book of Weakfishing
Recently I came across an old book I hadn’t seen in years – The Complete Book of Weakfishing by Henry Lyman and Frank Woolner. Published in 1959, these writers are two of the finest anglers to every pickup a pen. I meet Henry Lyman years back in the offices of Salt Water Sportsman Magazine. Unfortunately never had a chance to meet Frank Woolner, although I wrote story about him for Fly Fishing in Saltwater Magazine back n 1996. It was entitled Von Woolner’s Fly Box. I’ll let you discover why.
And as you would expect, they do a good job here covering weakfish and their kissing cousins – the spotted seatrout, the silver seatrout and the sand trout – from Florida to New England. And they do so with a variety of gear including fly rods! Yes Frank was one of first writers to realize the value of a fly rod on the coast.
