FISHING ONLINE – 1000 BEST WEBSITES by Craig Buddo
Price: £ 15.95


Softcover, 416 pages, illustrated with over 300 screen shots
ISBN: 0-88317-251-8

Published by Stoeger Publishing Company, Maryland USA. Available in the UK from: Coch-Y-Bonddu Books

Craig Buddo:
‘Website: http://fishingonline.typepad.com
Location: United States
Craig Buddo is a freelance fishing writer. A former editor for the fishing book publisher Frank Amato Publications and a former proofreader and web site tester for a Portland, Oregon design firm, Craig has been published in several print and online magazines in the U.S. and his native Britain, including In-Fisherman, Cabelas.com, Sportsmansguide.com, FISHINGmagic.com, and Salmon Trout Steelheader. Craig is an active member of the Outdoor Writer’s Association of America. He thinks carp are higher on the evolutionary scale than trout, but please, let’s keep that between the two of us.’

FISHING ONLINE – 1,000 BEST WEBSITES
Stoeger Publishing’s newest book, Fishing Online: 1,000 Best Web Sites, is a comprehensive reference guide for 21st century fishermen. According to a nationwide survey by Responsive Management, research specialists in outdoor recreation trends, one in four fishermen in the U.S. now regularly search for fishing information on the Internet. Freelance fishing writer Craig Buddo has weeded through tens of thousands of those websites to select the most useful, up-to-date and entertaining sites for every fishing interest.

Introduced as a jargon-free guide to getting the most from search engines, fishing mailing lists, chat rooms, newsgroups and forums, Fishing Online: 1,000 Best Web Sites is equally divided between freshwater and saltwater fishing, bass fishing and fly fishing, and has dozens of subsections pointing to the best sites for trip planning, fishing reports and online communities for every state, tackle and boat buying, kids’ fishing resources, and much more.


Although predominately American there is a wealth of information on web sites from all over the world. Author Craig Buddo, a native Brit who has lived in the States for many years, spent two years weeding through tens of thousands of web sites to pick out the most useful, up-to-date and entertaining sites for every type of fishing interest. This clearly organised guide ends the frustration involved in finding quality, content-rich fishing sites.

There are three appendices at the back of the book that list the Top Rated Websites and the Better Forums. Fishingmagic features in both. Of the Top Rated web sites Craig says:

“There are things of value in every one of these sites but the ones that really stand out in terms of design and content have been given a TOP RATED designation. Each of the more than 310 sites that made the cut is listed for quick reference in Appendix I.”

Craig contributed to FM back in July 2001 with this feature about the Columbia River.

He has long been a fan of FM so it’s no wonder we are rated very highly in the book.

FISHINGmagic VERDICT

I can’t say any better than this quote that can be found on the Stoeger Publishing website. I mean every word of it, for the amount of research alone that Craig Buddo must have put in for this most comprehensive book just fills me with admiration:

“Why bother with trawling through the thousands of fishing web sites to find the best ones when Craig Buddo has done the job for you? Just cherry pick your way through this book – it’s the best fishing search engine you’ll find.”Graham Marsden, FISHINGmagic.com, http://www.fishingmagic.com (England)

It’s a great book; the best of its type. I recommend it with no hesitation.

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