The book was created to help anglers develop fish-catching strategies and make better decisions, from novice through expert levels.
Strategies may be straightforward and uncomplicated at the beginner’s level, but a strategy is nevertheless an essential tool for organizing effort, and incorporating knowledge learned at any level, with field experience and practice. Whether you are just starting or a seasoned professional, working with goals and strategies will accelerate your learning over a haphazard approach.
The second major point in bringing adaptive science into fishing is to incorporate the methods and approaches of science in the task of finding better fishing solutions. The scientific method is repackaged in this book as an “adaptive fishing model,” and anglers are provided with the instructions needed to use this simple concept to answer specific fishing questions and improve the quantity and quality of the learning skills acquired. The book also looks at fishing through a “learning lens,” building new concepts and inferences for fishing out of scientific discoveries as diverse as psychology, biology, systems sciences, economics, and many more.
A noteworthy additional value is encouraging readers to think more like a scientist. Adaptive anglers harbor a skeptical mindset, constantly looking for alternatives to the status quo, questioning ideas, and especially what is known as common knowledge in fishing. Critical thinking and knowledge arts like inductive and deductive reasoning are covered in the book. These and other thinking tools are simple to apply as you fish or wherever you do your thinking about fishing.
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