Fishing on the Edge: The Mike Iaconelli Story Audiobook (Free)

Along with his colorful tattoos and booming hip-hop sound track, Mike Iaconelli has turned the world of big-money competitive bass fishing upside down. In Fishing around the Advantage, Iaconelli tells his own story-and it’s a whopper: a Philly-born, Jersey-bred Yankee who’s been stealing the spotlight from bass fishing’s typically all-Southern anglers, attracting supporters and dominating one of the fastest-growing sports activities in America.

How did Mike Iaconelli, a college-educated kid from NJ, come about Angling on the Advantage: The Mike Iaconelli Story blasting into a sport

dominated by old-school stars like Gary Klein, Kevin VanDam, and Denny Brauer? How do Mike, aka “Ike,” have a secret childhood interest and turn it into a job, generating million-dollar sponsorships and a storm of media interest, which range from ESPN’s SportsCenter to information in THE BRAND NEW York Occasions and Esquire? While Mike has attracted both enthusiasts and foes within the tour,

his success speaks for itself, especially his victory at the 2003 CITGO Bassmaster Common, the Super Plate of competitive fishing.

Forty-four million Americans fish, but nobody does it quite like Mike Iaconelli. In Angling on the Edge, he lets you in for the secrets to his extraordinary success-how he created his “power” angling style, how he attacks the water, positions the sail boat, and perseveres through those days when the bass just aren’t biting. With sidebar suggestions you can use by any fisherman-from using spinner baits to selecting the right fishing rod to his no-fail “key weapons”-this can be an intensive, informative, and frequently raucous journey through the life of a brash young man destined to accomplish for fishing what Tony Hawk did for the X Games: take the activity to a whole new level. At the same time, it’s the persuasive first-person tale of a man who prepared properly every step of the way, kept records on every fish he ever captured, and executed an ideal plan to reach the top.

An account of passion, competition, and severe personality, Fishing for the Advantage is a book for anyone who loves the activity of fishing, really wants to turn a spare time activity into a career, or is simply fascinated with a man’s unstoppable get to succeed.