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posted by admin on Feb 5

Editorial Reviews

Review
>From fishing camps to fish stories, Ralph Kylloe’s Fishing Camps is a must-have for any reader who is drawn to the romance and mystique of fishing. Several varieties of fishing are covered including large-mouth bass, rainbow trout,northern pike, and muskie. Fishing Camps transports the reader to fishing camps all over North America with experiences as varied as encountering a rattlesnake while fly-fishing in Colorado, battling king salmon in Vancouver, coming face-to-face with a full-grown alligator in Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, and fighting the aggressive muskie in New York. In addition, Fishing Camps provides valuable information about several camps for aspiring fishermen. Along with complete address and phone information, Fishing Camps describes the camps, their food services and sleeping accommodations, entertainment (besides fishing), and the decor and ambiance of each specific camp. Fishing Camps is ideal reading for anyone wanting the feel of a rod and reel and a wiley fish on the line! — Midwest Book Review
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

19.95 gatefold paper 1-58685-188-8< BR> 8 x 10 in, 144 pp, 100 Color Photographs, 40 Black & White Photographs, Rights: W, Sports< BR> The pure joy of a tug on the line-this is the subject of Fishing Camps. Whether your line yearns for bass, trout, muskie, or salmon, Fishing Camps can help you find the perfect location and accommodations. Author Ralph Kylloe transports readers to camps all over North America through his many experiences-from encountering a rattlesnake while fly-fishing in Colorado, to battling king salmon in Vancouver, to coming face-to-face with a full-grown alligator in Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Fishing Camps is certainly not limited to entertaining fish stories, though. Imparting valuable information about an array of resorts for the experienced or novice angler, the book includes details on food services, sleeping accommodations, and entertainment, plus the decor and ambiance of each specific camp. The individuality and allure of the camps are fully represented through his tantalizing fish stories and stunning photography. Kylloe also includes complete address and phone information, making this a great resource for planning your next fishing or outdoor vacation.< BR> Ralph Kylloe received his Ed.D. from Boston University and has taught at the university level for many years. He is a leading authority on rustic furniture and owner of the Ralph Kylloe Gallery at Lake George, in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. His previous books include Rustic Artistry for the Home, Rustic Traditions, Cabin Collectibles, and Rustic Furniture Makers.< BR>

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posted by admin on Jan 15

Editorial Reviews

The first illustrated gift book about the top 50 world record game fish catches, written by the historian for the International Game Fish Association.

The universal human interest in world records is nowhere more evident than in the world of sports. Every fisherman, from the seasoned professional to the most casual weekend angler, dreams of catching "the big one" and Big: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches delivers.

Artist Flick Ford and International Game Fish Association (IGFA) historian Mike Rivkin have combined talents to present the stories of the fifty most incredible record fish catches from around the world. The catches, selected for their sheer size, popularity, beauty, and exciting story, are presented in an oversize format, where the meticulously painted fish span double-page spreads. Amazing stories range from Dr. John Cook’s legendary 1916 brook trout to fifteen-year-old Sara Hayward of Texas, whose wahoo catch was an astonishing thirty pounds bigger than the previous record-holder.

World record catches are compelling, often for the normalcy of the setting—a day like any other, a fisherman on the last cast. This book salutes the sportsmanship of fishermen, the history of angling, and the fine art that keeps it alive.

About the Author

Flick Ford fell in love with fishing at age five. His father, an accomplished fly-fisherman and talented commercial artist/copywriter, instilled in him a deep respect for nature and nurtured his early creativity.

Born in 1954 in Atlanta, Flick was raised in Westchester County, New York. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Flick fished the Adirondacks, New England, Long Island Sound, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and the woodland lakes of Quebec, while pursuing two other loves: music (as lead singer in a garage rock band) and art. He took formal watercolor classes in the 1960s; figure drawing and graphic design classes from 1973 to 1976 and then studied art at Evergreen State College in Washington State.

Flick moved to New York City in 1978 and dove into the audio/visual scene including indie film, video, underground publishing, cartooning, illustration as well as reconnecting with music. He performed in the East Village with several bands, and wrote and sang lead in The Crazy Pages for almost twenty years.

Ford left New York in 1993, heading for the Hudson Highlands where he quickly became obsessed with fishing the NYC watershed. As he branched out to many of the brook trout places where he had previously fished in parts of the Adirondacks and Vermont, the effects of over twenty years of pollution, over-development and acid rain became painfully apparent.

“ I felt I should start to keep a record of the fish I caught and decided to do it in watercolor paintings. I just want to catch and paint these fish, and show how they appear to me in all their iridescent beauty.”

Today Ford makes his home in Putnam County, New York. He fishes more than 100 days a year and ties his own flies. He selects early every fish he paints for its relative size and beauty. After landing a fish, he quickly gets a digital photo before the colors fade, carefully measures it in all dimensions, sketches details, counts scales, fin rays and finally traces it to get its actual outline. He has developed a technique of successive washes utilizing masking friskets and painstakingly detailed dry brush that make these fish truly come to life on paper.

Mike Rivkin is past president of the venerable Tuna Club of Santa Catalina Island, and has served as an International Game Fish Association International Representative. He is the author of Big-Game Fishing Headquarters and Angling and War. He lives in La Jolla, California.

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posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

Review
“Instinctive Fly Fishing” is packed with friendly, practical advice for improving all aspects of your fishing game — including your attitude.” — Paul Guernsey, Editor-in-Chief, Fly Rod and Reel

“Move over Ray Bergman, Charley Brooks, John Gierach, here comes Taylor Streit upriver waggling his literary fly rod with the best of them in a wonderful, easy-going and easy-reading book that is sure to find an honored place among the classics. Streit sidesteps the hooky-mooky, he circles dextrously around the convoluted, and he catches the reader constantly with the effortless flick of his magic prose. This is fly fishing as it should be: Simple, direct, humorous, and always right on the money. Instinctive Fly Fishing takes out all the stress, leaving behind pure pleasure. Anybody who reads this book can’t fail to discover joy on any river…and catch plenty of fish to boot.” — John Nichols

” I have fished for trout with Taylor and it is true he instinctively knows where and how to find trout and what to do to catch them. He is uncanny!”

Jack Samson

“Written in a lean, elegant (and humorous) style, Taylor Streit’s Instinctive Fly Fishing contains more useful information — word for word — than any angling book I’ve ever read. I could have saved myself years of tripping and falling into rivers, cursing tangled lines, and puttingdown big fish if I had read this long ago. Okay, maybe not the tripping.” - John Handey, author of Deep Thoughts

In fly fishing, as in life, the very simplest things are the most important, and the easiest to overlook. Streit, in this important new book, reveals what he has learned in more than twenty years of guiding fly fishing trips.

Streit has witnessed thousands of clients catch trout over the years, and their successes and failures often boiled down to a few elementary rules: keep the sun at your back, keep your silhouette off the water, keep your fly in productive water, think like a predator, and so on.

With an almost Zen-like scrutiny, Streit discusses his distilled techniques for fishing pressured trout. He looks into what separates the beginner from the expert caster, and dissects the mechanics of the perfect strike.

Other chapters include Streit’s novel approaches to: drift-nymphs-dries-swing-bluegills and bobbers-reading water-riffles-eddy fishing-hiring a guide-fighting fish-wading-catch and release–maps

The result is a refreshing take on how simple this complex sport really is.

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posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

Close-up full-color illustrations highlight a definitive collector’s guide to antique fishing tackle and accessories, including rods, reels, lures, decoys, and more.

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posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

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Mr. Hastings has documented an important part of our Ozark folk culture that needs to be enjoyed today and preserved for tomorrow. –Eugene W. Braschler, Regional Supervisor (ret.) U.S. Fish and Wildlife

This work has revealed, explained and preserved an important aspect of the Scotch-Irish settlement of the Ozarks that would have otherwise been lost. –James E. Price, PhD., Chief of Resource Management, National Park Service, Ozark Scenic Riverways<br /><br />Mr. Hastings has documented an important part of our Ozark folk culture that needs to be enjoyed today and preserved for tomorrow. –James E. Price, PhD., Chief of Resource Management, National Park Service, Ozark Scenic Riverways

Attention All Fishermen! Bow Gigging is alive and well in the Ozarks! After a lifetime of avid practice and 16 years of devoted, extensive research, Ray Joe Hastings has compiled a landmark story documenting the history, techniques and methods of a native sport anthropologists say is exclusively Ozark that still thrills hunters and fishermen today. From its ancient Indian roots to its adaptation and development by early settlers in the region, through its modern refinement, Hastings had documented, like no one else, how this important skill has lived on as its participants transitioned from survival to sport. Meet the gig makers, past and present, rare, skilled craftsmen, still firing up their forges and producing the same sturdy gear their ancestors used in the same beautiful clear streams they fished for the past two centuries. Richly illustrated with detailed, full-scale photography of Hastings extensive collection, along with others, showing the progression of designs and the many variations of gigs and spikes used through the years as well as those used today. Truly a fascinating account of Ozark folk heritage for the next generation to enjoy that will be an essential part of any fisherman, hunter or historian s library.

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posted by admin on Jan 12

Editorial Reviews

Through lyrical prose and colorful photography, Jeff Bright explores our “obsession” with the mighty steelhead. The thrill of the take, the beauty of the fish, and the joy and solitude we experience when we immerse ourselves into their habitat, all are discussed with the aim of emphasizing the value of wild steelhead and their rivers.

This unique book celebrates what we hold dear, the great sport of steelhead fly fishing.

About the Author
Jeff Bright lives in San Francisco with his wife, Clair, and is a successful independent graphic designer, semi-retired western swing singer, songwriter and music producer, unabashed romantic and proudly unreformed idealist. He is also a steelhead-obsessed flyfisher who’d just as soon be standing waist-deep in a sparkling river speycasting a Green Butt Silver Hilton as nearly any other activity know to man. He has a large heart and hard head of a poet. Perhaps this is why he so readily identifies with the steelhead and its upstream journey.

Through his design business, Jeff has become involved with California Trout and Friends of the Trinity River, two critical organizations that have long been active in the effort to protect and restore the State’s wild steelhead and their environs. Moving forward, a particular goal of Jeff’s is to galvanize support for a California Steelhead Society, an organization that will promote steelhead, salmon and coastal river conservation through education, awareness and appreciation campaigns directed to Californians of all ages and backgrounds.

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posted by admin on Jan 12

Editorial Reviews

Review
“Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with a great concept for a series of books that deserve more than superficial recognition. Such a series is “The Greatest (fill in the blank) Stories Ever Told”, anthologies that should win places on many bedside tables. On the long winter nights that lie ahead, such stories make great reading.” –The Lexington County Chronicle
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“Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with a great concept for a series of books that deserve more than superficial recognition. Such a series is “The Greatest (fill in the blank) Stories Ever Told”, anthologies that should win places on many bedside tables. On the long winter nights that lie ahead, such stories make great reading.” –The Lexington County Chronicle

“The stunning photos and informative text really give you the feel for fishing in a different country.”– Canada’s Outdoor Sportsman magazine

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posted by admin on Jan 10

Editorial Reviews

Fishermen are often reluctant to share their secrets, and Datus Proper reserves a few for himself, including the location of some fabled trout streams. He’s generous with his opinions about almost everything else connected with angling, however, and Running Waters provides a lively sampling of them.

“Angling is a game you can’t lose,” Proper remarks, “if that’s any consolation.” The rules of the game, however, can be a challenge to master, especially if, like Proper, you’re relying on the guidance of seasoned friends. One, whom he quotes approvingly, sneers at the modern habit of “overwhelming trout with modern technology” such as graphite rods and champions the use of mayfly spinners; another swears by 18-foot-long hickory rods; still another opines that fast little brook trout offer the best sport. Proper himself takes a more measured view, volunteering that any place with speckled skin below and mountains and sky above is the best trout stream in the world. Even so, given half the chance, he’ll lose himself in the arcana of dry-fly tying and the merits of peacock herl, and you can learn plenty of oddments about such matters by following his elegant discussions.

Fly fishing, Proper observes, is an intellectual as well as an emotional passion, which helps explain both the abundance of conflicting views and of books about the sport. Proper’s is among the better to appear in recent years, and anyone who shares his fondness for cold streams and wily fish will take pleasure in its pages. –Gregory McNamee

From Publishers Weekly
In the 20 years he has had to fish and write about fishing since releasing What the Trout Said, Datus Proper has written dozens of stories about the palpable magic that occurs when an angler with his fly meets up with a fish in his stream. Collected here and aptly titled Running Waters: Where Angler, Fish, and Fly Are Destined to Meet, these wry and witty essays range through childhood to adulthood, encompassing the waters Proper’s fished, the people he’s met along the way and the fish his beloved brook trout, specifically that have given him a run for his money.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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posted by admin on Jan 9

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Using a family fishing trip as a catalyst for this memoir, Kingwell reflects on the actions and ideas that the rhythm of “casting and reeling, casting and reeling” conjures up in his mind. Kingwell is only a novice fly fisherman, so his thoughts on the oft-written-about sport stick to the ABCs, but are filled with a sense of joy and awe, so they can hardly be considered basic. Ever the philosophy professor (he teaches at the University of Toronto), Kingwell’s musings on angling inevitably lead to in-depth essays on the inherent nature of and reasoning for various aspects of fishing, such as casting, killing, patience and outdoorsmanship. To flesh out his theories, Kingwell quotes from a varied list of sources including philosophers (Aristotle, Nietzsche), writers (Tom Wolfe, Hemingway) and fishing scribes (Izaak Walton, John Gierach). Thankfully, the author never forgets that, despite its philosophical characteristics, fishing, even fly fishing, should be fun. To that end, he livens up his prose with humorous tales about his family (his battles with his brother Sean will speak to anyone with a sibling), Canadian men (a “weird conjunction of manliness and dandyism”) and the undeniable virtues of the “boat-beer” (”well known to tone you up and improve both coordination and judgment”). Though, in the end, he gets skunked in his fishing expedition for the meaning of life, Kingwell does create a book that finds a nice balance between the meaningful and the meaningless. Illus. not seen by PW.
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Review
Filled with a sense of joy and awe. — Publishers Weekly

Illustrates deep thoughts on truth, beauty and thinking itself with laugh-out-loud yarns of male bonding. — The Boston Globe
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Paperback
edition.

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posted by admin on Jan 9

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
Atkinson’s photographs of scenic fishing locales are extraordinary compositions showing off the natural beauty that abounds in and near streams, rivers, and lakes on several continents. The pictures in this book are wonderfully complemented by previously published but regionally relevant articles and stories by distinguished writers such as Tom McGuane and Ernest Schwiebert. Thus, an excerpt from Zane Grey’s Tales of the Angler’s Eldorado (1926) about trout fishing in New Zealand is accompanied by breathtaking photos taken there and captioned by Atkinson. Other countries extolled for their picturesque waters span North and South America and much of Europe, including Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, and Russia. Recommended for public libraries and coffee tables everywhere.?Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Trout and salmon, the aristocracy of freshwater game fish, can be found from the beautiful West Coast to New Zealand to Russia to the mighty rivers of Norway. In this stunning full-color book, Val Atkinson has captured with inimitable skill the beauty of the trout and salmon landscape–quietly gurgling streams, secret river pools, broad mirror-like lakes. Complementing Atkinson’s photographs are both contemporary and classic essays by twelve writers from fly fishing’s literary hall of fame: Zane Grey, Negley Farson, Tom McGuane, and John Gierach, to name a few. Their destinations: England, Chile, Argentina, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, Alaska, Scotland, Iceland, Russia, Norway, and the United States. Each essay is followed by a fact file on the corresponding destination, including a map, advice on when and where to go, strategies for success, and which tackle and flies to use. R. Valentine Atkinson is an internationally acclaimed and widely published photographer who specializes in fly fishing worldwide. His most recent book is the much acclaimed Distant Waters. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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