FISHING ADVENTURES FROM THE AUTHOR OF 50 PLACES TO FLY FISH BEFORE YOU DIE
These thirty stories take readers from leaping makos near the fairways of Torrey Pines to midnight Atlantic salmon fishing on the fabled Ponoi to encounters with very friendly mujeres on the streets of Havana . . . and even offer an unauthorized (yet unequivocal) account of Bob Dylan's 1970s obsession with fishing. Santella's peripatetic lifestyle and eye for entertaining details--even those that have little to do with the act of throwing flies at fish--will make you look at fishing in a whole different way.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Some fly-fishing books are not meant to be technical but rather to entertain and delight. Santella's well-written short stories are about our passion: its anglers and fascinating essays. You will enjoy this one. -- Lefty Kreh, fly fishing legend and author of numerous books, including Casting with Lefty Kreh, Fly-Casting Fundamentals, and 101 Fish The list of how-to fly-fishing books is at least a mile long, but there are scant few that delve into the "why" with such clarity and credibility as this one. Nobody else wades as far out of the main channel, but brings it home with such resonance, like Santella can. -- Kirk Deeter, Editor-in-Chief, TROUT Media Tug is honest, fair and self-effacing, and it does what great angling writing should-it inspires us to get on the water more often to fish. If you don't want to fish the world with a fly rod in hand after reading it, you better check for a pulse. -- Greg Thomas, Editor, Fly Rod & Reel
Sprache
Verlagsort
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
USA
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 237 mm
Breite: 158 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-8117-1963-6 (9780811719636)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Chris Santella is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon, where he resides with his wife and two daughters. He is the author of 19 books, including Fifty Places To Fly Fish Before You Die, Fifty Places To Play Golf Before You Die, Why I Fly Fish and Fifty Places To Drink Beer Before You Die (all Abrams), and Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press, with Dr. Peter Marra). The Fifty Places series has sold over 500,000 copies.
Santella is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Trout, Fly Rod & Reel, The Drake, American Angler, and Fly Fish Journal. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Travel & Leisure, and Links, among many other publications. When he's not at his desk, Santella loves to swing flies for steelhead on the Deschutes, Sandy, and North Umpqua Rivers, and to front Catch & Release, a four-piece rock band that plays original compositions...including a tune called "The Tug is the Drug."
Acknowledgements
A Ferocious Gift Lures Anglers to Christmas Island
The Karma of Broken Trailers
Traveling Light
Calgary - A City Where Trout Fishing Does Not Go to Die
Chasing Juvenile Tarpon through Yucatan Mangroves
Off the Links, Onto the Stream
Frank Moore, Dean of the North Umpqua
When the Roosterfish start to Run, Anglers Just Try to Keep Up
Once Considered 'Trash', Carp Become Worthy Fly Rod Target
Seeking Stripers in the Shallows of Maine's Casco Bay
Nato and the Human Anchor
Postcard from Homosassa
In Ireland, Fishing for Salmon that Like a Crowd
On Our Own on Alaska's Kanektok River
Casting with a Master
Salmonflies Awaken Western Trout, Anglers
The Fish Whose Bite Is as Fierce as Its Name
White Nights of Salmon
Fly Anglers Are Drawn to a Toothy Adversary
The Addictive Allure of the Steelhead's Tug
Mojitos, Muchachas, y Sabalo
Lobstermen Turn to Guiding in the Yucatan
How to Get Skunked on the Bulkley and Threaten Your Marriage at the Same Time
Makos on the Fly
Size Does Matter When Spey Casting
The Man Who Brought Trout to a Valley of Gravel
Fishing with Lewis and Clark
The Greedy Beady Egg Man
Dylan: The Fly Fishing Years
Feed your Fish Head
Among the Hobbit Trout
Rainbows All
The Rainbows of Crater Lake
It was Epic, Dude
The Pledge
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Smallmouth in Greater Portland
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