Preface<br > WHENEVER TWO BASS ANGLERS get together for any length of time， the<br > conversation Won t merely drift toward tackle and gear. They ll be hot<br > Onto the subject within two minutesr Because<br > ~ I ve never seen a bassman<br > who wasn t interested in tackle， I reasoned that they might also like to<br > read about it. As far as 1 know， there has never been a book like<br > Advanced Bass Tackle and Boats. Yet I feel that such a book is needed，<br > and needed now， because millions of anglers are pursuing bass fishing<br > more and more zealously-and because of the diversity and the com-<br > plexity and the sheer bulk of bassing gear that has been put on the<br > market during the past few years. We now/lave all sorts of transist -<br > ized electronic . ，， ~ . .<br >devices surfacegea including underwater hght intensity meters， so~rr<br > and subsurface temperature indicators， and even oxy-<br >gen monitors. The specialized fishing machine known as the bass boat.<br >Hot new lures. Improved lines. Highly engineered reels. Rods made of<br >bassman has for his pleasure<br >Waltons philosophy， fishing rods undreamed of in old lzaak<br > ~ ntt~e done a lot of research for this book， and 1 believe it will be<br >