Table of Contents

The Education of a Plug Fisherman When Bays Were Filled with Redfish The 1951 Fish Freeze The Laguna Madre's Great Eighth Pass Watching the Decline of Game Fish Along the Texas Coast The Last Great Wade Fishing Spot in the Gulf Oysters Teach Me a Lesson in Conservation How Greed Almost Decimated the Gulf's Redfish Why Texas Must Open the Laguna Madre Our Coastal Wetlands Can't Take Much More Pollution Support Your Game Warden Shark: The Devil of the Sea Watch Your Step in the Gulf Boats for the New Breed of Wade Fisherman Rules of the Road in the Gulf How to Find Saltwater Game Fish Good Guides Are Worth the Money Fish With the Tides How to Wade Fish a Shell Reef Reels for the Wade Fisherman Fishing Rods for Wade Fishermen Lures for the Wade Fisherman How to Wade Fish a Saltwater Lure Color and Fish The Right Fishing Line Use Good Single Hooks One Knot Ties Your Lures Bucktails and Dry Rinds Catch Fish, Too Use the Right Leader and Swivel Wade Fishing Equipment and Clothing My Million Pounds of Fish Caring for Your Catch Preparing for Your Fish and Game

Reviews

In the years I fished with Rudy, the fifties and sixties, the man was utterly solar powered, seeming to draw enough energy from the sun to fish all day and all night ... without a doubt, one of the most effective saltwater plug fisherman I have ever seen, innovative as well as determined--he just never quit.