This book is certainly better value than the authors' 'Saltwater Gamefishing' book, even though it is only really a specialised adaptation of that book. I made the mistake of ordering both and I feel that I've been had. I still find the text of this book a bit too unspecific and repetitive; but it makes more sense as a specialised book rather than in 'Saltwater Gamefishing' where the rest of the book is mainly just padding around this one. In cars, they'd refer to this as 'badge-engineering'.

Peter Goadby is in my opinion one of the modern day "Guru" of big game fishing. This book is very good. I would however recommend people to buy his other book "Saltwater Gamefishing: Offshore and Onshore" as it is more comprehensive, covering almost everything there is to know about Big-game fishing as well as all that there is in this book. This book is very good but the other one is the best book on Big-game fishing I have read this far.

When I finished reading this book my number of hook-ups increased extremly. This book is like the Bible of fishing for Billfish. Buy it NOW!!