Phil H. Shook

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Award-Winning Author

Award-Winning Author

Phil H. Shook is a nationally known author, journalist and photographer whose specialty areas include business and financial reporting, outdoor and travel writing. He covered the oil and gas industry for the Dallas Times Herald and the steel industry for the Birmingham News. He has filed stories from the North Slope of Alaska to the Paris Basin in France. His outdoor writing, angling and travel assignments have taken him from Cape Cod, Mass., to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and from Hudson Bay, Manitoba, to Caracas, Venezuela.

  • Texas
  • Mexico
  • Northeast U.S.
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Flyfisher's Guide to Mexico

Flyfisher’s Guide to Mexico

By Phil Shook

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Flyfisher's Guide to the Northeast Coast

Flyfisher’s Guide to the Northeast Coast

By Phil Shook

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Fly Fishing the Texas Coast: Backcountry Flats to Bluewater

By Chuck Scates and Phil Shook

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Reviews

I've read lots of guides in my life and I believe [Flyfishing the Texas Coast] is the best ever. Not only are the maps, where to, when to, how to and with what parts excellent but the anecdotal inclusions put it over the top.

R. Peter Van Gytenbeek
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Fly Fishing in Saltwaters

[Flyfisher's Guide to Texas] may be the most in-depth work ever produced for anglers looking to discover Texas' often-overlooked waterways. Shook's journalism background served him as well as his fishing skills when compiling the book. For an angler wanting to wander Texas and sample Texas' best remaining waterways, this book will prove invaluable.

Shannon Tompkins
Houston Chronicle

About

About

An award-winning writer and photographer, Phil H. Shook has published work in leading magazines and newspapers across the country. His specialty areas include business and financial reporting, outdoor and travel writing. A former writer with the Dallas Times Herald, Birmingham News and Laredo Times, he is a native of San Antonio and a journalism school graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He has written for the Associated Press, Money Magazine, National Petroleum News, Texas Business and the Journal of Petroleum Marketing. A regular contributor to the Associated Press, his outdoor and travel writing has appeared in Field and … Read More

Upcoming Projects for 2016

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