The unreasonable virtue of fly fishing /
Kurlansky, Mark,
The unreasonable virtue of fly fishing / Mark Kurlansky. - xxiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: winter without Tolstoy on the Big Wood River -- Why? -- Doing it the hard way -- The thinking prey -- Who started this? -- American fly fishing -- It's about the fly -- The comfort of my rod -- Send you reeling -- A good line -- Wading in -- Fisherwomen -- Difficult thoughts -- Fishing for words -- Epilogue: Yeats on the Blackwater -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: rivers in this book.
"Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky finds, is that fly fishing makes catching a fish as difficult as possible. There is an art, too, in the crafting of flies. Beautiful and intricate, some are made with more than two dozen pieces of feather and fur from exotic animals. The cast as well is a matter of grace and rhythm, with different casts and rods yielding varying results. [Kurlansky] spent his boyhood days on the shore of a shallow pond. Here, where tiny fish weaved under a rocky waterfall, he first tied string to a branch, dangled a worm into the water, and unleashed his passion for fishing. Since then, a lifelong love of the sport has led him around the world to many countries, coasts, and rivers--from the wilds of Alaska to Basque country, from the Catskills in New York to Oregon's Columbia River, from Ireland and Norway to Russia and Japan. And, in true Kurlansky fashion, he absorbed every fact, detail, and anecdote along the way."--
1635578752 9781635578751
Fly fishing.
Flies, Artificial.
Anecdotes.
The unreasonable virtue of fly fishing / Mark Kurlansky. - xxiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: winter without Tolstoy on the Big Wood River -- Why? -- Doing it the hard way -- The thinking prey -- Who started this? -- American fly fishing -- It's about the fly -- The comfort of my rod -- Send you reeling -- A good line -- Wading in -- Fisherwomen -- Difficult thoughts -- Fishing for words -- Epilogue: Yeats on the Blackwater -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: rivers in this book.
"Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky finds, is that fly fishing makes catching a fish as difficult as possible. There is an art, too, in the crafting of flies. Beautiful and intricate, some are made with more than two dozen pieces of feather and fur from exotic animals. The cast as well is a matter of grace and rhythm, with different casts and rods yielding varying results. [Kurlansky] spent his boyhood days on the shore of a shallow pond. Here, where tiny fish weaved under a rocky waterfall, he first tied string to a branch, dangled a worm into the water, and unleashed his passion for fishing. Since then, a lifelong love of the sport has led him around the world to many countries, coasts, and rivers--from the wilds of Alaska to Basque country, from the Catskills in New York to Oregon's Columbia River, from Ireland and Norway to Russia and Japan. And, in true Kurlansky fashion, he absorbed every fact, detail, and anecdote along the way."--
1635578752 9781635578751
Fly fishing.
Flies, Artificial.
Anecdotes.