The New Hampshire Fishing Series Vol. 1: The Bassing of New Hampshire How Black Bass Came to the Granite State by Jack Noon Moose Country Press, (Warner, 1999) ISBN 0-9642213-9-X Softcover, 238 pages, $20.00
	New Hampshire before the Civil War had neither smallmouths nor largemouths. This book is an account of New Hampshire's native inland fisheries, of how bass over the course of about a century and a quarter were introduced into the state's waters, and of how the Granite State's bass - and bass fishermen - have been faring ever since. With Chapters on Lake Sunapee, Newfound, Squam, Winnipesaukee, and Umbagog.
	The New Hampshire Fishing Series Vol. 2: Fishing in New Hampshire A History by Jack Noon Moose Country Press, (Warner, 1999) ISBN 1-893863-02-6 Softcover, 264 pages, $26.00
	The history of freshwater fishing in New Hampshire is the story of past attitudes, choices, and compromises in using and managing natural resources. Patterns of successes and failures emerge from the historical record. They offer perspectives of particular relevance today in approaches to the most challenging environmental threats that any generation has yet faced. The ultimate on wheres and whens of the fishery in New Hampshire for the past four centuries. . . . a product of rigorous and disciplined research for both serious students and casual readers

 

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