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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Crunch Adams, skipper of the trim cruiser Poseidon , and his partner Des Smith entertained readers of the Saturday Evening Post from 1939 to 1954 in these 22 tales about a charter-boat fishing business off Florida’s coast. A unique treat for fishing enthusiasts, Wylie’s jaunty stories are full of iridescent charm and rhapsodic prose that captures the tribulations and imponderables of fishing. While many are period pieces, the best of these romantic idylls have a timeless quality. Wylie ( Generation of Vipers ; Finley Wren ) is adept at quick, incisive sketches of Crunch & Des’s customers, illuminating their foibles, dreams and the pressures they’re trying to escape as they ply the indigo waters from Miami to the Keys. He also evinces sympathy for “fishing widows,” like Crunch’s sensible wife , women whose husbands are “at sea” in more ways than one.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
“They don’t write ‘em like this anymore.” –Sports Afield
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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From Publishers Weekly
London’s Thames River; a dump on the San Francisco Bay; Paris’s Ile de la Cite; Manhattan’s East River; and a minuscule pond in a Tokyo park near a “main defense establishment” are a few of the fishing sites featured in the anthology City Fishing. Most fishing guides (and people who fish) set their sights on the great outdoors Montana, Oregon, Maine anywhere but deep in the city. But these authors, including Ian Frazier, J.H. Hall, Dave Hughes and Charles Rangeley-Wilson, intrepid fishermen all, describe their urban fishing exploits with humor, graphic detail, social commentary and a peculiar sense of adventure.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The 17 stylish essays in this anthology bring wit and insight to bear on the intriguing paradox that fishing, despite bucolic associations, is a growing part of urban culture. Such well-known fishing writers as Jerry Dennis, Nick Lyons, and James Prosek, along with literary stars Ian Frazier and Pete Fromm and 12 others, muse on the experiences of angling in such citified climes as Paris, Tokyo, London, San Francisco, and New York. Other not exactly urban but certainly nontraditional fishing venues discussed here include Niagara Falls and the fountain at a Georgia junior college. The quarry ranges from trout, grayling, salmon, and stripers to carp, chubs, and panfish. Throughout, the essays engage the reader with both their original subject matter and the variety of entertaining and enlightening writing styles, from high comedy to poetic reflection. An outstanding fishing book. John Rowen
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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A fascinating tour of streamside New Zealand. Photos and illustrations of insects accompany extensive information about how to fish them. Learn vital streamside lore and how to analyze a trout’s stomach contents. A section on how to tie imitations includes materials and tools. Materials lists and instructions detail how to tie popular New Zealand flies, from Izaak Walton’s flies to today’s favorites. Includes Mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies, and other abundant trout insects in New Zealand. Learn about New Zealand trout flies past and present: Green Stonefly, Pomahaka Red, Willow Grub, Mataura Red. Includes personal stories on the water learning about the fish and what they eat.

About the Author
Norman Marsh, who came to New Zealand in 1953, is a regular feature writer for Rod & Rifle magazine.

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“A rare look into the recreational habits of some unlikely celebrities.” — Sea magazine

“Almost worth buying (just) to see the photo of Kevin Costner, circa 1976, holding a jumbo string of dead bass.” — Tampa Tribune

“Collectively, these fishy tales reveal the soul of the fisherman.” — ESPN Outdoors

“We found ourselves alternatively chuckling to ourselves and laughing out loud at some of the antics of the celebrities.” — The Outdoor Wire

“Will delight those who have and those who have not baited a hook in their lifetime…Refreshingly different sports book.” — Tucson Citizen

Top celebrities like Alice Cooper, Deion Sanders, Vince Gill, Samuel L. Jackson, Dan Rather, and many more talk about their fishing experiences, with a foreword written by Kevin Costner.

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“Soak in the wealth of useful whitetail deer hunting information from expert Weiss over and over again - I did!” — Peter Fiduccia, Host/Producer, Woods N’ Water TV Series, September 2001

Brand new to the market in September 2001, this hard-cover title is jammed-packed with the latest in practical and easy-to-use deer hunting tactics. With 208 pages filled with photos and illustrations, one of the nation’s leading whitetail authorities, John Weiss, shares his insights into hunting whitetails.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Jimmy Houston Outdoors has been a popular TV staple (ESPN) for two decades. Here, writing with freelancer Price, Houston shares his accumulated wisdom about and experience with bass fishing. The pieces are very informal, brief and jerky-Houston says the book involved a tape recorder instead of a TV camera. Topics include technique, bait, boats, rods and how to remove a hook from the hand. Major factors in fishing for bass are water conditions, type of water, time of year and weather, Houston shows. Reminiscing about tournaments he and his wife have fished, he compares tournament fishing with long-distance auto racing in terms of the concentration required. This book is limited in scope; bass fishermen and ~ -women will appreciate it, but Houston’s medium is television, not print.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A two-time winner of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society Angler of the Year award and a celebrated television fishing personality shares entertaining and instructive personal stories and anecdotes about the fine art of bass fishing.

Order Caught Me a Big’Un…and Then I Let Him Go!: Jimmy Houston’s Bass Fishing Tips ‘N’ Tales: Jimmy Houston, Steven D. Price form Amazon.

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What are the secrets most fishermen miss right under their noses, which if they only knew, would instantly improve their chances of becoming the “lucky” 20% who catch all the fish, the fortunate few who know how to turn their dreams into reality? FISH ON! (SECRETS OF THE SNOOK WHISPERER) is more than a fishing guide-book, it is a guide to living, to catching big fish and landing bigger dreams. Fish On, tells the story of how author and columnist, Sloane Golden, was taken under the wing of a master fisherman from Key West–”The Snook Whisperer,” and of the life-changing lessons learned… “Sloane Golden…in his book, Fish On, shows the fisherman how to dream big and catch big fish. But the book is about more than fishing, however; it’s about the test of character, something every winner must have.” -Foreward, Coach John Tortorella, Stanley Cup winner and Head Coach, Tampa Bay Lightning.

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The trout fly is both a tool for catching fish and an object of exquisite beauty. Newly reissued in a handsome hardcover edition, The Art of the Trout Fly captures the blending of art and function in these amazing constructions of fur, feather, fiber, and thread. Forty-three international masters of flytying share the secrets of their craft in wise and witty personal essays, each accompanied by a gorgeously rendered photograph of their most distinctive creations, as well as a list of the materials used to bring the flies to life. Also included is an illuminating introduction discussing the contributions of the flytyers to fly design, and exploring why tyers the world over are so fascinated by the craft. A justly celebrated classic, The Art of the Trout Fly is an excellent introduction to flytying for the novice and a valuable source of information and inspiration for the experienced fly-fisher.

About the Author
Judith Dunham is a writer and editor who has written about contemporary art and the outdoors. An avid fly-fisher, she divides her time between the San Francisco Bay Area and the mountains of Northern California and other western states. Egmont Van Dyck has studied design, art, and architecture in Germany, where he was born, and in the United States. Specializing in high-tech photography involving stylized props and intricate lighting, he lives in the Bay Area.

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From Booklist
His folksy colloquialisms may eventually have you grinding your teeth, but Uncle Homer (as longtime Sports Afield readers have come to think of Circle) offers a solid tome on angling for North America’s most popular game fish. There are three species of bass–largemouth, smallmouth, and Kentucky or spotted bass–but Circle sets his sights primarily on the largemouth. He gives us good chapters on the many types of baits and lures that tempt these fish, taking enough time to well explain how to use the lures, what they do in the water, and when an angler should use them. Indeed, this advice is so good that inexperienced anglers who, visiting a tackle store, are enticed by lots of pretty lures (that will probably catch more fishers than fish) should just close their eyes, head straight to this book, and then consider opening them again. That way, they will save lots on lures that only wind up in the bottom of the tackle box, gathering rust. Jon Kartman

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From Library Journal
In Powerful People (LJ 6/1/96), journalist Rowan reminisced about the famous people he has interviewed over his 50-year career. Here, he reflects on more private, but nonetheless meaningful, experiences he has had surfcasting in the waters around Block Island, 12 miles off the New England coast. The contemplative serenity, which may or may not be followed by the thrill of battling a large fish seeking to escape the tethered hook, is the aspect of the sport that the author finds most attractive. The waves, he says, can stir his imagination in wonderful ways. Of course, he likes the catching part, too, and gladly shares tips and techniques for enticing gamefish that he has learned from years of experience. For large fishing collections and public libraries with regional interest.AWill Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
“[An] eloquent paean to surfcasting . . . this blend of angling wisdom, history, and craft moves with the increasing rhythm of the tides and will tug at the heart and–dare one say it–the soul of every fisherman.” –Dan Rather

“Rowan takes us to the roiling waters of Block Island as he casts (for stripers, blues, and bonito) and waits (for the pull on the line) and wonders (not about whether to eat seafood tonight, but about long-ago shipwrecks and the Indians who inhabited the beautiful rocky cliffs, about being alone in nature and engaging in a chess game of sorts with creatures of the deep). Wittily written, Surfcaster’s Quest is an adventure story close to home, for fisherman or not. It’s a wonderful tale of a not-so-old man and the sea.”—Greenwich Magazine

” . . . Rowan is no dilettante in this surfcasting dodge. You will marvel at the depth of his dedication to the sport and the enormous fun, challenge and spiritual blessings he achieves in pursuing it. Most readers will envy him; . . . on two accounts—the rewards he reaps, for one, and the poetic grace of his writing, for another. . . . . ‘You don’t have to be a fisherman . . . to enjoy this book. You must only relish solitude, the beauty of nature, the mystery of the sea, the elusiveness of its creatures. In these pages, you will learn about catching fish, but far more important, you will learn about the essence of your soul.” –Greenwich Time
–This text refers to the

Paperback
edition.

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