The unreasonable virtue of fly fishing
"Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky finds, is that fly fishing makes...
| Main Author: | Kurlansky, Mark (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: winter without Tolstoy on the Big Wood River
- Why?
- Doing it the hard way
- The thinking prey
- Who started this?
- American fly fishing
- It's about the fly
- The comfort of my rod
- Send you reeling
- A good line
- Wading in
- Fisherwomen
- Difficult thoughts
- Fishing for words
- Epilogue: Yeats on the Blackwater
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: rivers in this book.