posted by admin on Jan 8
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Johnson has composed a wonderful, at times lyrical, exploration of an out-of-the-way niche on our crowded planet.” (California Literary Review )
Readers who believe as Herman Melville’s Ishmael, that “meditation and water are wedded for ever,” will be entranced by Rex Johnson, Jr.’s, account of his travels to the upper Bavispe River in Mexico’s northern Sierra Madre. Combining travel observations, natural history, ethnography, ecology, and ichthyology, Johnson’s narrative plunges the reader into a world that is so far from the twenty-first-century United States that it is difficult to believe how physically close the two countries actually are.
Johnson goes in search of an ancient species of trout, the Bavispe, at least 3 million years old. It has been easier for the Bavispe to remain unchanged for millennia than for the human inhabitants of the Sierra Madre to endure for mere centuries. Johnson notes the area’s Indian descendants are in the process of becoming modern, and the needs of the ancient trout, dependent on pure, unpolluted water, collide at times with the choices of people scratching out an existence in a challenging environment.
The parallel stories from natural and human history are a central theme in Johnson’s account of environmental change and its consequences, layered with the personal, contemplative meaning he finds in the quest for the seldom-seen fish.
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posted by admin on Jan 8
Editorial Reviews
Review
If you love fly fishing and desire to explore, you can’t go wrong taking Fly-Fishing Odyssey along. — Jean Kelly, Redbone Journal, Spring 2002
This book has a lot of solid, useful information — not to mention considerable entertainment value. — Steve Raymond, Fly Fishing in Salt Waters, Jan/Feb 2002
This book is a unique combination of exciting fishing tales and priceless information. The appendixes alone are worth the price. — Lefty Kreh, 2001
In Fly-Fishing Odyssey, Jon B. Cave has transformed his lifes work into a collection that will inspire, enlighten and educate any fly-fisherman. With tales that take us from Patagonia to Yellowstone National Park, from Africa to Argentina, from home to abroad, Fly-Fishing Odyssey stirs the wanderlust in any fisherman and provides the information necessary for those willing to put wings to their dreams.
Order Fly-Fishing Odyssey: The Pursuit of Great Game Fish: Jon B. Cave form Amazon.
posted by admin on Jan 7
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Oregon’s North Umpqua River contains miles of the best steelhead and trout water in North America; its pool and riffles draw anglers the world over. Michael Baughman has fished these waters most of his life, and A River Seen Right is his testament to what he has learned there.The North Umpqua flows past thousands of years of history, with three-thousand-year-old bird points still able to be found at the water’s edge. In the twentieth century, renowned sportsmen such as Zane Grey have come to the river, tramping up the steps of the famed Steamboat Inn, whose history is detailed here. There are some candid words on the danger of increased fishing pressure on the viability of the fishery. The book speaks of fly patterns, productive pools, and the best seasons to fish (mostly the uncrowded ones), but its bent is not practical. Rather, Baughman brings us along on an extended tour of the river to talk about fishing, the river’s rich history, and some pleasant memories - like an afternoon’s walk at streamside with an old friend.The book is graced with photographs by Dan Callaghan, who is also lucky enough to call the North Umpqua his home water.Any fly fisherman, from any place, will want this special book. (71/4 X 81/4, 156 pages, color photos, b&w photos, map)
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posted by admin on Jan 5
Editorial Reviews
Review
“To this book goes our award for the best title of the year.” –Fly-Fishing in Salt Waters
Zane Grey, John Gierach, and others share encounters with great gamefish.
order Into the Backing: Incredible True Stories About the Big Ones that Got Away–and the Ones that Didn’t: Lamar Underwood form Amazon.
posted by admin on Jan 1
Editorial Reviews
6 x 9 “If you’ve ever wondered why some anglers are so smitten by their calling, you’ll understand when you read Selling Fish.” -John Cole, author of Fishing Came First, Striper, and In Maine J.H. Hall grew up in a family of commercial fishermen on the Chesapeake Bay. Though he went on to become a doctor and sport fisherman, he never lost the connection to his roots. These non-fiction stories are about fly-fishing for trout in Montana and bonefish in Belize, about gillnetting stripers in the Chesapeake Bay, about casting popping bugs to smallmouths in Maine. They are about success and failure. They are funny, poignant, sad, joyful. But mostly they are about people and what fishing can reveal about relationships. You will not forget them. J.H. Hall is a graduate of Princeton University and Duke University School of Medicine. His short fiction has appeared in North American Review and Triquarterly, his fishing essays in Fly Rod & Reel and Gray’s Sporting Journal. He is the author of one previous book of stories, Paradise.
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posted by admin on Dec 8
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Oregon’s North Umpqua River contains miles of the best steelhead and trout water in North America; its pool and riffles draw anglers the world over. Michael Baughman has fished these waters most of his life, and A River Seen Right is his testament to what he has learned there.The North Umpqua flows past thousands of years of history, with three-thousand-year-old bird points still able to be found at the water’s edge. In the twentieth century, renowned sportsmen such as Zane Grey have come to the river, tramping up the steps of the famed Steamboat Inn, whose history is detailed here. There are some candid words on the danger of increased fishing pressure on the viability of the fishery. The book speaks of fly patterns, productive pools, and the best seasons to fish (mostly the uncrowded ones), but its bent is not practical. Rather, Baughman brings us along on an extended tour of the river to talk about fishing, the river’s rich history, and some pleasant memories - like an afternoon’s walk at streamside with an old friend.The book is graced with photographs by Dan Callaghan, who is also lucky enough to call the North Umpqua his home water.Any fly fisherman, from any place, will want this special book. (71/4 X 81/4, 156 pages, color photos, b&w photos, map)
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posted by admin on Nov 19
Editorial Reviews
Review
If you love fly fishing and desire to explore, you can’t go wrong taking Fly-Fishing Odyssey along. — Jean Kelly, Redbone Journal, Spring 2002
This book has a lot of solid, useful information — not to mention considerable entertainment value. — Steve Raymond, Fly Fishing in Salt Waters, Jan/Feb 2002
This book is a unique combination of exciting fishing tales and priceless information. The appendixes alone are worth the price. — Lefty Kreh, 2001
In Fly-Fishing Odyssey, Jon B. Cave has transformed his lifes work into a collection that will inspire, enlighten and educate any fly-fisherman. With tales that take us from Patagonia to Yellowstone National Park, from Africa to Argentina, from home to abroad, Fly-Fishing Odyssey stirs the wanderlust in any fisherman and provides the information necessary for those willing to put wings to their dreams.
$Order Fly-Fishing Odyssey: The Pursuit of Great Game Fish: Jon B. Cave From Amazon and save money$