Fly-Fishin' Fool
The Adventures, Misadventures, and Outright Idiocies of a Compulsive Angler
Published on 28. January 2016
256 pages
978-1-4930-2678-4 (ISBN)
Description
The inimitable author of the hugely popular Crosscurrents and River Music, whom Kirkus called "one of the finest nature writers in print," comes back with a third hilarious and observant opus on the nature of knavery in the sport of fly fishing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
0,69 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-2678-4 (9781493026784)
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James R. Babb
Fly-fishin' Fool
The Adventures, Misadventures, and Outright Idiocies of a Compulsive Angler
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04/2005
The Lyons Press
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Person
James R. Babb is the editor of Gray's Sporting Journal and author of River Music and Crosscurrents, which Library Journal hailed as "the best fly-fishing book" of 2001. He was born and grew up in East Tennessee, and has worked as a commercial lobster fisherman, a truck driver, a boatyard worker, a reporter, and a feature writer. He lives in Searsport, Maine.
Content
- Intro
- Foolish Beginnings
- I. FOOLISH ENDEAVORS
- 1. First Fish
- 2. Sailfishing with Señor Ed
- 3. Evening the Score
- 4. On This Very Rock
- 5. All in the Family
- 6. Adventures in Pest Control
- II. FOOLISH HERESIES
- 7. The New Jury of Twelve
- 8. Temporarily Edible
- 9. Skinny Legs and All
- 10. Skittery Skittery Skoot
- 11. Carnivores
- 12. Good Vibrations
- 13. Cobweb Conditions
- 14. Playing Fair
- III. FOOLISH BEHAVIOR
- 15. As Good as It Gets
- 16. Sudden Agility
- 17. Good Lies
- 18. Crusher Hole
- 19. Millennium Blue
- 20. Waiting
- IV. FOOLISH DELUSIONS
- 21. When Isobars Attack
- 22. Hops with Frogs
- 23. Cycles of Addiction
- 24. The Guilty Old Man and the Sea
- 25. Still Life with Worms
- V. FOOLISH ASSUMPTIONS
- 26. Cozily Coddled
- 27. Déclassé Day
- 28. The Best Fish Guide I Ever Knew
- 29. The Best Fish Writer You've Never Read
- 30. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Appended: A Gratuitous Culinary Afterword
