Suggested Titles (in alphabetical order by title):
| 117 Days
Adrift by Maurice and Maralyn Bailey |
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The Bailey's is a fantastic
human story of adaptation to totally alien conditions. It is a story of
amazing courage, resolution and endurance. Essential reading for all who
enjoy a gripping true story, 117 Days Adrift is an inspiring tale that
has become one of the classics of the sea!
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| A River Runs
Through It by Norman Maclean and Barry
Moser (Illustrator) |
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From its first magnificent
sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion
and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters",
A River Runs Through It is an American classic.
Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A River Runs Through It
has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it
captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life along Montana's Big
Blackfoot River and its near magical blend of fly fishing with the
troubling affections of the heart.
This handsome edition is designed and illustrated by Barry Moser. There
are thirteen two-color wood engravings. |
| Alaska Blues
by Joe Upton |
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Joe Upton tours us through
open channels and narrow fjords, past forested shorelines, tiny
villages, abandoned homesteads and deserted canneries. We experience the
life of the independent fisher including the lonely hours at sea, the
satisfaction of a good's day catch, and the easy camaraderie of other
fishers. Alaska Blues offers up an authentic tale of the Southeast
Alaska landscape and a fascinating way of life. |
| Blues
by John Hersey |
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Another title for this book
could be "Zen and the Art of Bluefish Fishing." Thoroughly
enjoyable and is an easy read. You can smell the bunkers and you
feel the power of the fish.
The pleasures of a summer's bluefishing
off Martha's Vineyard are marvelously evoked as John Hersey reflects
upon the angler's art, wonders of the teeming oceans where fish and
fisherman confront each other, and the web of interdependence they
share. The book includes 14 drawings.
We highly recommend this book! |
| Crunch and Des :
Classic Stories of Saltwater Fishing
by Philip Wylie and Karen Wylie Pryor |
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If you like fishing, South
Florida, good stories with a human interest slant, tales with a moral to
be gleaned, adventure and solid humor, you will enjoy these short
stories of two fishing guides, their clients and associates set in
forties era Miami and in the waters outside. The fishing knowledge of
the author is clearly authentic, as is the capability to make genuinely
likeable characters and amusing story lines. His love of this locale is
apparent, as is his capability to translate the mood of his settings to
his readers. Most of the stories were first published in the Saturday
Evening Post.
This is a keepsake book you will want to
reread over and over! |
The Earth Is
Enough : Growing Up in a World of Fly Fishing, Trout, & Old Men
by Harry Middleton and Russell Chatham |
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In this touching memoir of
his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the
front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie
Dillard. Middleton is the outdoors columnist for Southern Living
magazine.
Haunted by a troubled past, a young boy
is turned over to two enigmatic guardians, men as old as the hills they
farm and elusive as the trout they fish. Seeking strength and purpose
from life, the boy learns that the very pulse of life beats from within
the deep constancy of the earth, and from one's devotion to it. Amidst
the rhythm of an ancient cadence, he discovers his home: a farm, a
forest, a mountain stream, and the eye of a trout rising. |
| Full Creel
by Nick Lyons |
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For years, Nick Lyons has
endeared himself to readers by reminding them of why they fish. Now, at
last, he has assembled his favorite pieces into a beautifully
illustrated collection that will stand as a classic of fishing
literature. Drawn from a career that spans over thirty years, the pieces
re-create the essence of angling. They capture the meditative rhythm of
casting, the burst of adrenaline when a fish strikes, the quiet joy of
standing in a river, and the abiding passion for a sport that so often
turns into hopeless if benign addiction. Yet Full Creel is much more
than a wonderful book about fishing; it is also the summing up of a rich
and fascinating life. A husband, father, book publisher, and former
English professor, Nick Lyons weaves his personal experiences and
knowledge throughout his tales, creating textured ruminations on the
links between angling and family, philosophy, and literature. This is an
essential book for anyone who enjoys fishing literature. |
| Giant Bluefin
by
Douglas Whynott |
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Bluefin tuna are the largest
finfish in the ocean and the fishermen who harpoon them, one at a time,
lead a traditional, athletic, even heroic life, according to Whynott.
The author spent two seasons in the company of a 47 year-old Cape Cod
harpooner and tells the story of his "passionate hunt for his noble
and elusive prey," as well as the struggle between the fishermen
and conservationists.
Whynott's superb report on the bluefin
harpoon fishery takes readers to the old whaling grounds off Cape Cod
and shows that the adventure and controversy associated with that
extinct American industry survive today, on boats with names like
Scratcher, Back Off, and Tenacious. |
| Gray Ghosts & Lefty's Deceiver : Flyfishing Wisdom from the Masters
by Bob Newman and Mark Sosin |
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Share in the experiences and adventures and benefit from the advice and tactics of the greatest flyfishers of our time, including Lee Wulff, Lefty Kreh, Dave Whitlock, Charles Waterman, Trey Combs, Lou Tabory, Dan Blanton, Tom Rosenbauer, Jason Borger, Jon Cave, Ed Jaworski and other legends.
Every fly tier should
have this book in their library!
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| The Hungry Ocean
: A Swordboat Captain's Journey by
Linda Greenlaw |
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The term fisherwoman does not
exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's
only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist
on calling her one. Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most
successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet. Greenlaw's
boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail,
which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the
focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a month
long swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the
story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process,
that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster. |
| The Longest Cast
by Alexander Taylor and Lefty Kreh |
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The author and some National
Georgraphic-class photographers went around the world and brought back
stories and images that made me feel better about being alive and liking
to fish. Of great interested this book looks at fishing as a
cross-cultural experience, as one of those things that defines us as
being part of the same species.
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| Longitude: The True Story
of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel |
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The thorniest scientific problem of the
eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives
had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine
an east-west position. This is the engrossing story of the clockmaker,
John "Longitude" Harrison, who solved the problem that Newton and Galileo
had failed to conquer, yet claimed only half the promised rich reward.
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| Marquesa: A Time
& Place With Fish by Jeffrey
Cardenas |
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During the summer of 1994,
the author spent six weeks alone on his houseboat in the uninhabited
Marquesas, west of Key West, along with his fly rods and flats skiff.
This book is the account of this time spent in this remarkable place,
fishing for tarpon and permit, and thinking (and writing) about what it
means to be young and alive in an unforgettable, deeply etched idyllic
world of wonder |
| The Perfect
Storm by Sebastian Junger |
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The Perfect Storm is the tale
of a doomed ship caught in the middle of what some meteorologists have
called the storm of the century. At its heart is a gripping narrative
about struggling for survival in a tempest of ferocious winds and
100-foot waves. But rookie author Sebastian Junger does more than simply
spin a good yarn. His account of how fishermen ply their trade and lead
their lives in the 1990s is fascinating. The same goes for his
descriptions of storm formation, wave physics, and the terror of
drowning. |
| Reading the Water
: Stories and Essays of Flyfishing and Life
by
Mallory Burton and Holly Morris |
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"Reading the Water"
by Mallory Burton is a fine balance of expert fly fishing observation
and
philosophical fiction. Burton uses her passion for fly fishing and
insights into the angling mind to come up with stories that explore
life's essential questions -- divorce, death, love, work -- through the
experience of fly fishing. It comes at a time when interest in fly
fishing is exploding, and more and more women are joining in the sport.
Mallory's writing will take you deeper
into the waters of fly fishing than just catching fish. She is one of
the most talented angling writers today. Coy, funny, profound, subtle,
clever and 100 percent about fishing as it applies to life. |
| Surfcaster's
Quest by Roy Rowan |
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Surfcaster's Quest describes
not only the habits of blues, stripers, bonito, and other game fish, but
also how to trick them into striking at pieces of wood, plastic, and
metal flung out from the shore. This is a book about courage,
contemplation, solitude, the appreciation of nature-and yes, religion,
though not the kind conducted under a church steeple.
Interspersed with this thought-provoking mixture of soul-searching and
surfcasting are fascinating historical tidbits about the Indians,
pirates, and rumrunners who once occupied that obscure oceanic speck
originally called "Isle of the Little God" (Block Island, RI). |
| West of Key
West by John N. Cole by John N. Cole |
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A "new" classic
full of tales of the adventurous quest to catch the ellusive
"ghosts of the flats".
Great reading! |
| Whitefish Can't
Jump & Other Tales of Gamefish on the Fly
by
E. Donnall Thomas Jr. |
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Having practiced medicine for
more than 20 years in Alaska and Montana, E. Donnall Thomas Jr. packs an
impressive résumé for a trout bum. But as he points out in one of the
essays in this intelligent, good-humored collection, his years of
experience can all be reduced to a means to an end: fly-fishing. These
days, writing about the sport serves a similar purpose for Thomas, and
he demonstrates a thorough understanding of the genre in Whitefish Can't
Jump, shifting seamlessly between memoir, travelogue, philosophic
musing, and scientific inquiry.
Each of the 19 essays centers on a
particular species of game fish, but taxonomy is merely a springboard
for the stories and observations that lurk behind the species' Latin
names like brown trout under the cutbanks: a hooked rainbow nearly
provokes a mid-river contretemps with a swimming grizzly, an impossible
northern pike provides an evening distraction en route to a new job, and
cutthroats inspire a remembrance of the journey of Lewis and Clark! |
| Working on the
Edge : Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession : King Crab
Fishing on Alaska's High Seas by
Spike Walker |
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A dramatic insider's account
of the world's most dangerous profession: king-crab
fishing in the frigid waters of the Bering Sea where the conditions are
beyond most imaginations (90 mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and
superhuman stretches of on-deck labor). |
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