For many years it's been my great privilege to call Tom Seymour my friend. Whether cruising the backwoods for partridge or trolling the big lake, it is always an enjoyable experience. Productive trolling is all about patient persistence. Employing the tips and techniques outlined in Tom's book will surely increase your odds of putting more fish in your net. Bob Lawrence, Registered Maine Guide and owner of Lawrence's Lakeside Cabins in Rockwood on Moosehead Lake. Another winner from Tom Seymour Tom Seymour knows everything there is to know about catching trophy brook trout, togue, brown trout and landlocked salmon. If he tells you a certain technique is effective, it's because he's tried it and it works. If he recommends a streamer fly or lure, it's like money in the bank.

Moreover, Tom is able to convey his knowledge and experience to his readers using an easy-going, informal writing style -- heavy on the factual information; light on pretense and grandstanding. Finally, because of his vast knowledge of the flora and fauna of the natural world, Tom Seymour is able to set his fishing experiences in the proper environmental context -- revealing why lakes turn over, how fish behave differently after ice-out, and the manner in which anglers and their quarry fit into the seasonal cycles of lakes, ponds, streams and brooks. With Getting Your Big Fish: Trolling Maine Waters, Tom makes an invaluable contribution to the body of timeless knowledge that will allow us all to become more effective, efficient and productive anglers. Will Lund, editor, The Maine Sportsman Magazine.