Born to Fish: How an Obsessed Angler Became the World's Greatest Striped Bass Fisherman
✍ Scribed by Gallagher, Tim; Myerson, Greg
- Book ID
- 110280788
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780544787452
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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The son of a mobster goes from deadbeat to world champion to protector of "the people's fish."**
Born to Fish tells the story of a man who led a harrowing, sometimes dissolute life until he turned himself around, thanks to his rod and reel. Overcoming learning disabilities, substance abuse, and the violence associated with a father in the mob, Greg Myerson, a lifelong sport-fisherman, caught an 82-pound striped bass in 2011, shattering a world record that had stood for 29 years. Without any training in biological research, he began studying the striped bass like a scientist--examining how it hunts, the food it eats, how its behavior is affected by moon phases and the cycles of the tides--which led to the creation of the RattleSinker, the lure that helped him catch the record-setting bass. During an appearance on the TV show Shark Tank, Mark Cuban bought a 33 percent share of Greg's company, World Record Striper Company. Yet at the very...