Small-stream fishing wisdom with the same insight and pungent humor
that has become Gierach's trademark. Advice on tackle selecting, reading
water, and scouting.
The author, being that most unusual creature--an honest angler--offers
this caveat on the opening page: "Many of us have elevated fly fishing
(especially our favorite kind) to the highest category of human endeavor:
something we don't need to explain unless we feel like it. Of course, if
we do feel like explaining it, look out. We're liable to start referring
to it as an 'art' and maybe even sit down and write a book or something."
The rest you can guess. This is one man's opinion about the art of fishing
small streams with a fly rod--a guide that is always entertaining and frequently
worthy of underlining. Readers familiar with the John Gierach of Dances
with Trout and Even Brook Trout Get the Blues will recognize
in Fly Fishing Small Streams the folksy wisdom and amiable writing
that has made this trout-bumming author's books of essays so popular. However,
like Flyfishing: The High Country and Fishing Bamboo, it's
an instructional. This isn't to say it's not a fun read, but it remains
foremost a guidebook--and a very useful one at that. --Langdon Cook, Sports
& Outdoors editor
The L.L. Bean Saltwater Fly-Fishing Handbook is an indispensable guide
to the most exciting fly fishing from one of the world's foremost authorities.
Whether you've never fished before or are a classic trout-stream angler,
or you have fly fished in the sea for years, the L.L. Bean Saltwater Fly-Fishing
Handbook is the definitive guide on the subject for beginners and experts
alike. Fly fishing in salt water makes special demands on the angler, and
Lefty explains every aspect of this challenging and exciting sport in this
comprehensive, practical, and easy-to-read handbook. Readers will learn
about: basic tackle choices; simple and effective knots; how to cast from
shore or boat; learning the tides; fly selection; striped bass, bluefish,
false albacore, bonefish, snook, tarpon, redfish, permit, barracuda and
sharks; fishing the flats, around structure, and in estuaries.
There is something here for all anglers, whether they are just learning
to cast or looking for successful tips from the master himself to catch
that elusive, one-in-a-lifetime trophy. (7 x 10, 192 pages, color photos,
illustrations, diagrams)
A FLY FISHER'S GUIDE TO THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER is a complete how-to
fly-fishing manual for the entire South Platte River drainage. It encompasses
a thorough look at the each section of the river detailing the hatches
and recommended fly patterns for each of the four seasons of the year.
This book represents decades of experience from the top guide on this demanding
river.
Regarded as one of the most challenging trout streams in the country
the South Platte is fed from the icy peaks of the Continental Divide. The
South Platte is primarily a river of small insects imitated by small fly
patterns fished to some of the most selective trout in North America. It
is said of this river that, "if you can catch a trout on the South Platte,
you can catch them anywhere."
'A study of the Lummi Indians of northwestern Washington and the political
and economic forces that have determined their changing fortunes over the
past 150 years. Daniel Boxberger has made excellent use of documentary
sources, oral history, and his own observations...The book is compelling
and well documented; it is also understated, frequently allowing the actions
of the myriad contending interest groups to speak for themselves' - "Ethnohistory".'Boxberger
knows his subject. He displays an impressive understanding of the technical
development of fishing, and he repeatedly uses his interviews with Indians
to inform and test archival and secondary sources' - "American Indian Quarterly".
'By focusing on the history of control over productive resources (in this
case salmon, methods of harvest, processing, capital investment, and markets)
Boxberger shows how the Lummi slid from independence and self-sufficiency
to dependency, underdevelopment, and poverty...Not only is it an excellent,
in-depth study of the Lummi case, it can also serve as a metaphor for the
larger question of Native American treaty rights and the resource provisions
of agreements' - "Pacific Historical Review". Daniel L.Boxberger is professor
of anthropology at Western Washington University, Bellingham.
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