posted by admin on Feb 6
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“Farmer’s book lives up to its title; he has done a wonderful job of distilling loads of information about the wildlife of the state and how it might be utilized by fishermen, hunters or campers, or anyone interested in the rural landscape of the state…. He is obviously a man who loves his subject-and that affection (and deep but also practical knowledge) shines through on every page.”-Bruce Clayton”
In The Best of Fishing, Hunting, Camping, and Boating in Missouri, Charlie Farmer, an avid outdoorsman and the author of Unspoiled Beauty: A Personal Guide to Missouri Wilderness, provides the reader with some excellent tips for making the most of the four major outdoor nature activities that are available in Missouri. He also shares many of the fascinating adventures he has had during a lifetime of participating in his favorite pastimes.
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posted by admin on Feb 5
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& 480 pages & 6 x 9. Most complete guide available & Maps, addresses, and phone numbers for travel planning “A staggering piece of research.”–Sandy Leventon, Trout & Salmon This is the only angler’s reference that includes every piece of fly-fishing water in Scotland–more than 6,000 lochs and 600 rivers. It covers everything fly fishers need to know, including permission, addresses and phone numbers, costs, information on boats and gillies, recommended flies, and fishing tactics. Bruce Sandison is an experienced fly fisher and author who writes regularly for the Scotsman and Glasgow Herald.
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posted by admin on Feb 5
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“A fine observer’s experiences and a wonderful snapshot of time and place that combines local history, geography, archaeology, and photography into a fascinating sketch of a transitional period of northwestern Newfoundland history. Harp’s descriptions of his early work here take the form of an expanded diary in which we come to know the issues, people, and places of that time as he experienced them. The photographs are really marvellous. Harp has a great eye and all the shots are enticing, descriptive, and greatly add to the text.” William W. Fitzhugh, National Museum, Smithsonian Institute /// “Lives and Landscapes offers a glimpse into a now-vanished outport world and shows some of the early changes that transformed this world. Elaine Harp’s short pieces, warmly anecdotal, enriched my understanding of the local culture.” Louise Abbott, author of The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence
In the late 1940s Elmer Harp, a young Ph.D candidate at Harvard, began the first of five summers of exploration along the coast of the Strait of Belle Isle. Interested in studying early human activity in the area, he came to be equally fascinated with life in outport communities. During the summers of 1949-50 and 1961-63, he explored the coast, travelling from one isolated outport village to the next, initially by open boat and later on rudimentary roads, vividly capturing everyday life in his journals and through his extensive Kodachrome slides. In her introduction, Priscilla Renouf places Harp’s story of rural northen Newfoundland in historical and anthropological context. She notes that there are economic and cultural continuities from prehistoric times to the present and shows that the fundamental structure of outport life based on fishing and hunting remains stable to this very day.
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posted by admin on Jan 14
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“…mental images so vivid he barely needs the illustrations…the fish…are reproduced so perfectly they could attract cats.” — Washington Post, December 11, 2005
…fishing tales convey the joy, timelessness, grace and beauty that are…found casting a fly to pursuing fish. — New York Post, December 16, 2005
The book boasts beautiful pictures….It’s a lovely offering from one of the sport’s most engaging and articulate spokemen. — Trout Magazine, Winter, 2006
Peter Kaminsky didn’t know a fly rod from a hot rod back in 1974 when, while vacationing in the Florida Keys, he landed his bait right under the nose of a 35-pound grouper. At that life-changing moment, he was hooked on fishing. In the three decades since, the New York Times outdoors columnist has fished his way across his native land, discovering America-and himself-through his passion for angling.
In American Waters, Kaminsky shares in lyrical prose his fly-fishing journeys around what he calls “the fishingest country on earth.” From the Ozarks to the Everglades, from the Brooklyn waterfront to Yellowstone, from the bountiful riptides of Montauk Point to the spring creeks of Montana, Kaminsky has fished the best. Whether he is pursuing tarpon in the Marquesas, smallmouth in the Ozarks, or the albacore of Cape Fear, the fishing tales recounted here convey the simple joy, timelessness, grace, and beauty that are to be found casting a fly rod.
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posted by admin on Jan 14
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CD Syndicated Radio (Vancouver, BC), Sept. 1, 2005 “This book only adds to the appeal of the sport, but in ways it probably didn’t intend to. Certainly the nuts and bolts specifics are offered up here in big, grand, exhaustively detailed fashion, but it’s the gem-like quality of the hardware that impresses. These gorgeous baubles and trinkets are stunning to look at and lovingly catalogued in a book that’s both a surprisingly informative academic history and the closest a guy can get to a jewelry store catalogue without feeling stupid. The text and archival photography are perfectly complemented by a nice, deservedly oversized format.”
Rapala – the very name evokes quiet mornings on a mist-shrouded lake, family expeditions in a well-worn rowboat, and – best of all – the thrilling moment when a fish explodes out of the water on the end of your line. This richly illustrated book tells the story of a remarkable company and the iconic angling products they produce. Rapala lures are now sold in 140 countries and are responsible for more world-record fish than any other lure. It is the dominant company in a hugely popular sport enjoyed by 44 million recreational anglers in the U.S. alone – more people than play golf or tennis combined. Rapala: Legendary Fishing Lures provides a definitive and meticulous record of the development of the unique Rapala lure range, from the 1930’s Original “Wounded Minnow” carved by Lauri Rapala from pine bark and wrapped with foil to the “Super Shad Raps” of today. Full of fascinating stories and anecdotes – including the surprising role Marilyn Monroe played in the company’s growth – and illustrated from personal, company and historical archives, the book offers detailed product history, record charts and performance information. Created in celebration of what would have been the 100th birthday year of company founder Lauri Rapala, this detailed official history was written with the full cooperation of the family and key associates from around the world. As the best resource on this premier brand, it is a must-have for any fishing enthusiast.
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posted by admin on Jan 14
Editorial Reviews
Catching carp is easy if you fish ‘easy’ waters but if you take the next step and tackle the more difficult lakes and rivers the situation is substantially different. In such waters carp can test the capabilities of any angler. Carp are cunning, unpredictable and amongst the toughest freshwater fish in the world to catch.
About the Author
Simon Crow’s love of carp fishing has taken him all over the world and his personal best fish weighing 55lb 8oz was caught in South Africa in January 2000. Simon works full time as an angling journalist and consultant and is News Editor of Carp-Talk fishing magazine. This is Simon’s third book for Crowood; he is co-author with Rob Hughes of the best-selling Discover Carp Fishing and Strategic Carp Fishing. Resident - East Yorkshire
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posted by admin on Jan 14
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Jack Samson, renowned saltwater angler and former editor of Field & Stream, shares his experiences from traveling in a realm of the fishing world practically unmapped before the 1970s: big-game fly-fishing. Taking a billfish on the fly might be just about the most exotic way to fish, and Samson reveals many of his methods and memories from this adrenaline-fueled sport.
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posted by admin on Jan 14
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Fly Waters Near And Far is a Stackpole Books publication.
About the Author
Barry Beck is a Stackpole Books author.
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posted by admin on Jan 10
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Trout Hunting is for those who take fly-fishing’s traditions seriously, for whom it is more than just a pastime. Bob Wyatt gets to the heart of the matter in a book packed with insight and challenges to conventional thinking. Well known to readers of Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine, Wyatt presents a wide-ranging and entertaining investigation of some of fly fishing’s central mysteries, including a fresh look at the theory of the selective trout. Trout Hunting will help get your strategies organized and inspire reflection on the nature of this fascinating pursuit.
About the Author
Born in Canada, Bob Wyatt has been a fly fisherman since the late fifties, having cut his angling teeth on the classic freestone rivers of Alberta and British Columbia. Wyatt is a regular writer for Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine and a frequent contributor to magazines such as Gray’s Sporting Journal, Canadian Fly Fisher, and Fly Rod and Reel.
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posted by admin on Jan 9
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Sparse Grey Hackle is a legendary member of the fly-fishing literati, although he’d be the first to resign from anything that sounded as pretentious as "literati." For years his articles, writing he referred to with a usual dollop of self-deprecation as "huntin’, shootin’, fishin’" columns, delighted readers of outdoors magazines. Although an outdoorsman in the general sense, Sparse was, above all, an angler of the fly, plying his love on the famed trout streams of the Catskills. An Honest Angler collects many of these pieces, reflecting the author’s generous wit and experience, along with correspondence to noted fly-fishers. His writing, like a smooth cast, deftly covers a variety of productive "waters," moving from the tall tales of fishermen to the finer points of presenting a particular dry fly to a particularly fussy trout. Those already familiar with the work of Sparse Grey Hackle will welcome this new edition of previously uncollected material; those new to Sparse and his place in the golden age of American fly-fishing are in for a pleasant surprise.
From Publishers Weekly
Hackle was the pen name of Alfred W. Miller (1892-1983), an angler whose essays and articles appeared in many publications for a good part of this century. This collection of his magazine articles, newspaper columns and letters to friends has been put together by his daughter. He is disarmingly candid about why anglers fish: “Your typical fisherman is… taking refuge from the realities of life.” He knows the history of fly-fishing, the rods, the gear (there’s a delightful history of waders) and the companions one is likely to encounter. In a way it’s unfortunate that Miller’s reputation rests so heavily on his pieces about fishing, for he is a charming essayist on a number of quite unrelated subjects and an entertaining storyteller as well. His tales of his career in the Army chasing Pancho Villa in Texas and Mexico are captivating, as are his recollections of the Ambulance Service in France during WWI. Those who are skeptical about Miller’s way with a phrase will be won over by several columns he wrote for the vacationing Red Smith, the dean of sportswriters of his time and an exceedingly tough judge of literary style.
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