Fisherman's Coast: An Angler's Guide to Marine Warm-Water Gamefish and Their Habitats Book

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Preface	xi
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	Life Cycles of Marine Gamefish and Their Prey	5
	The Larval Stage	6
	The Juvenile Stage	7
	The Adult Stage	11
	Applying What You've Learned: Taking Advantage of Juvenile Prey	12
	Seasonality of Gamefish Prey	13
	Applying What You've Learned: Seasonality of Prey Species Life Cycles	14
	Spawning Gamefish	14
	Temperature	15
	Local Nuances	16
Chapter 2	Seagrass	17
	Species of Seagrass and Their Environmental Requirements	20
	Applying What You've Learned: Reading Seagrass	24
	Applying What You've Learned: Spotted Seatrout	26
	Seagrass as Habitat	26
	Fishing in Patchy Seagrass	30
	Applying What You've Learned: Tailing Red Drum	34
	Gamefish Prey	35
	Time of Day	50
	Applying What You've Learned: Seasonal Strategies for Gamefish in Grass Beds	50
	Stewardship	52
Chapter 3	Mangroves	53
	Mangrove Species and Their Ecological Attributes	54
	Red Mangroves	55
	Applying What You've Learned: Bonefish along the Mangroves	56
	Black Mangroves	59
	Applying What You've Learned: Black Mangrove Shorelines	60
	Gamefish Prey in the Mangroves	61
	Location Matters	72
	Time of Day	74
	Seasons in the Mangroves	74
	Applying What You've Learned: Gamefish in the Mangroves	77
	Stewardship	80
Chapter 4	Oyster Bars	83
	Ecological Requirements	85
	Types of Oyster Bars	86
	Currents	88
	Tidal Range	89
	Salinity	90
	Applying What You've Learned: Exploring Oyster Bars	91
	Applying What You've Learned: Basic Fishing Tactics	92
	Oyster Bar Habitats	96
	Seasonality	98
	Gamefish Prey	98
	Applying What You've Learned: Fishing at Dawn and Dusk	103
	Resident Prey Fish	104
	Seasonal Prey Fish	107
	Applying What You've Learned: Fly Selection	109
	Applying What You've Learned: Be Ready for Baitfish	110
	Stewardship	112
Chapter 5	Salt Marshes	113
	High and Low Marsh Zones	115
	Applying What You've Learned: Finding Gamefish in Salt Marshes	119
	Applying What You've Learned: Red Drum in the Salt Marsh	121
	Tides	123
	Applying What You've Learned: Fishing the Tides	125
	Gulf versus Atlantic Coastal Salt Marshes	127
	Salt Marsh Food Web	130
	Gamefish Prey	131
	Applying What You've Learned: Strategies for Murky Water	137
	Applying What You've Learned: Seasonal Strategies	138
	Stewardship	140
Chapter 6	Beaches	143
	Waves	144
	Applying What You've Learned: Basic Strategies for Fishing the Surf	146
	Shifting Sands	149
	Applying What You've Learned: Summer Beachside Snook	152
	Gamefish Prey	153
	Applying What You've Learned: Seasonality and the Fall Feeding Frenzy	158
	Beaches of the Tropics	161
	Applying What You've Learned: Tarpon Blitzes	162
	Applying What You've Learned: Strategy for Fishing Protected Beaches	167
	Applying What You've Learned: Tarpon at Dusk	168
	Gamefish Prey	170
	Tropical Beachrock Shorelines	171
	Stewardship	173
Chapter 7	Rubble Flats and Sand Flats of the Tropics	175
	Rubble Flats of the Backreef	175
	Shoreline Rubble Flats	180
	Sand Flats	183
Appendix A	Table of Common Gamefish	189
Appendix B	Table of Major Prey Groups	191
	References and Further Reading	193
	Index	207