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Hey everybody it's Simon from Lakehub. Welcome back to the Lakehub library. Today we have a book review
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Born to Fish by Tim Gallagher and Greg Meyerson. Now the book is about Greg Meyerson's life
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and so he's more of a contributor. It's kind of a semi-autobiography. Tim Gallagher is more or less
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the author. This book was written in 2018. It's pretty fresh. It's a really easy read and a great
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story about someone who was absolutely obsessed with chasing striped bass on the eastern seaboard
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I was at my local library perusing the shelves and this thing caught my eye and I just grabbed
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it on a whim and read it cover to cover. It is an easy read. It's a really compelling story
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and this is one pretty incredible larger than life dude right here. So about a decade ago Greg Meyerson
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broke the world record striped bass and then broke his own record. This was a 35, 40, at the time it
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was about a 30 year old record. So now he is the man. He invented a product, his little secret weapon
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that helped him catch his world record bass. He's been on Shark Tank. He's had, you know, he's got
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like a tv show in the works. All state, state champion football player in Rhode Island and one
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of these incredible dudes who has just been through everything. Every up and down, addiction
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near-death experiences, crazy life. His dad was tied up in the mob. I don't want to give away too much
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but his life is just absolutely bananas and the common thread throughout his entire life has just
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been absolute and total obsession over fishing. So as far as fishing stories go, I mean, okay so
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Old Man and the Sea is like here right? I mean this one's like right here. It's up there. It's
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a really compelling story. If you love fishing like I do, if you love striped bass, I mean this is a
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really good read. I'll give you a warning. If salty language is not your thing, you don't want to read
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this. Greg is a man of the sea. Talks like a sailor. There's some pretty, you know, kind of
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raw and real scenarios in here that are pretty gnarly. Like I said, mob ties, stuff like that. So
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there's some pretty gritty stuff. If you kind of shy away from that, don't read this. Otherwise
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Simon approved. Lighthub approved. This is a great story. I'll put a link down below
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so you can buy one for yourself if you're curious about reading this. Born to fish
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Check it out. I'm Simon from Lighthub and we'll see you next time
