THE BLITZ: FLY FISHING THE ATLANTIC MIGRATION. Author Pete McDonald. Photography editor Tosh Brown.

2011 1st edition. Large landscape 4to (288 x 260mm). Pp216. Large colour photographs throughout. Textured grey paper-covered boards, upper board and spine titled in metallic-blue.

# "Over the course of a year, Pete McDonald and Tosh Brown followed an immeasurable biomass of predators and prey on their annual oceanic migration from Maine to North Carolina. ...An engaging and comprehensive view of the beaches, tidal rips, birds, bait, and gamefish of the Eastern Seaboard." This is an exciting account of a safari down the North American Atlantic shore, in pursuit of bass, bluefish, tuna, bonito, false albacore, redfish and other species in a mass migration of predators and prey, starting in Maine and ending up in North Carolina. Chapters include: Maine; The Boston Shore; Cape Cod; Martha's Vineyard; Nantucket; Rhode Island; Connecticut; Jamaica bay; Breezy Point; Montauk; The Jersey shore; The Susquehanna flats; Tidewater Virginia; Harker's Island; Supratidal redfish. Whilst the author says that this book "is not a how-to-where-to guidebook", it almost is. This book would be of great use for European anglers planning a trip to the US East Coast since it contains a large amount of background information which you are unlikely to find anywhere else. Great photographs, better than the norm for subject-matter, and a readable text which addresses its subject in a focused manner. Recommended.