Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman

Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman

Author: Jack Hemingway

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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Now in paperback, Jack Hemingway's autobiography, a warm and candid memoir that looks at the major events and personalities of our lifetime from the unique perspective of being Ernest Hemingway's son. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.


My Life Was This Big

My Life Was This Big

Author: Lefty Kreh

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1602393591

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Kreh, the Johnny Cash of fly-fishing writers ("Baltimore Sun"), takes his readers on an angling journey through the last half-century. He relates tales of fishing expeditions with Fidel Castro as well as solo battles with some of the most elusive fish in the world. 10 color photos.


Fish On, Fish Off

Fish On, Fish Off

Author: Stephen Sautner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1493025066

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Fish On, Fish Off is the angling version of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods. Through a series of nearly 50 personal essays, the author explores what happens when the self-taught, DIY angler sets out to fish the world – and winds up stumbling into every possible pitfall and danger along the way. These include: getting chased from a river by an elephant, surviving a terrifying helicopter ride over the Straits of Magellan, and breaking his only rod on the second cast in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. Closer to home, he is swept off a jetty on Block Island by a rogue wave, winds up in an emergency room more than once with fishing lures hanging from various parts of his anatomy, and perhaps most daunting, surviving 30 years of the scrum better known as opening day of trout season in his crowded home state of New Jersey. If Upriver and Downstream showed the poetry of angling, Fish On, Fish Off shows the scars.


Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers

Author: John Gierach

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1501168606

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Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of “legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community, culture, the natural world, and the seasons of life” (Kirkus Reviews). “After five decades, twenty books, and countless columns, [John Gierach] is still a master” (Forbes). Now, in his latest original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world. “Gierach’s deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished storyteller…His alert and slightly off-kilter observations place him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James Thurber” (Publishers Weekly). In Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, Gierach looks back to the long-ago day when he bought his first resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season never ends, and just knew he was in the right place. And he succinctly sums up part of the appeal of his sport when he writes that it is “an acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives.” Lifelong fisherman though he is, Gierach can write with self-deprecating humor about his own fishing misadventures, confessing that despite all his experience, he is still capable of blowing a strike by a fish “in the usual amateur way.” “Arguably the best fishing writer working” (The Wall Street Journal), Gierach offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how one’s love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.


Hemingway on Fishing

Hemingway on Fishing

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1476716412

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"Hemingway on Fishing is an encompassing, diverse, and fascinating assemblage. From the early Nick Adams stories and the memorable chapters on fishing the Irati River in The Sun Also Rises to such late novels as Islands in the Stream, this collection traces the evolution of a great writer's passion, the range of his interests, and the sure use he made of fishing, transforming it into the stuff of great literature."--Jacket.


My Secret Fishing Life

My Secret Fishing Life

Author: Nick Lyons

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9780871137500

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Beyond his life as an English professor, book publisher, and writer, Lyons has always had a "secret fishing life", explored in this collection of wise, gentle, and witty essays. Illustrations.


North with Doc

North with Doc

Author: Greg Knowles

Publisher: Brainerd, MN : In-Fisherman

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780929384405

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Trout Water

Trout Water

Author: Josh Greenberg

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 161219902X

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"Josh Greenberg is my kind of nature writer."—The Wall Street Journal It's the beginning of trout fishing season, and Josh Greenberg — proprietor of one of the nation’s most famous fishing outfitters, on America's most iconic trout-fishing stream, the Au Sable River in Michigan —is standing in the Au Sable at dusk when he gets the call that a dear fishing buddy has died. The solace he takes from fishing — from reading the movement of the river water, studying the play of the light, and relying on his knowledge of insect and fish life — prompts him to reflect on the impact of the natural world on his life in his fisherman’s journal. Over the course of a year, the journal transcends fishing notes to include some beautifully lyrical nature writing, entertaining stories of the big one that got away, cheerful introspection about a love that’s hard to explain, and yes, a tip or two. Eventually, Josh Greenberg realizes he hasn’t been all alone in the woods, not really. Much of his relationship with his family and friends has played out on the river. And as he catches — and releases — trout after trout back into one of the most beautiful rivers in America, Greenberg comes to help us realize, too, that there’s more to fishing than catching fish.


A Cast in the Woods

A Cast in the Woods

Author: Stephen Sautner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-02-17

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1493032097

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When angler and author Stephen Sautner bought a streamside cabin and some land in the heart of fly fishing country in the Catskill Mountains, he thought he had finally reached angling nirvana and would be able to fish whenever he felt like it. Little did he know what loomed: a series of historical floods, a land rush over fracking for natural gas, and constant battles with invasive species, plagues of caterpillars, and other pests. He takes on all of these threats – between casts for wild trout and other gamefish – and along the way gains a better understanding of stewardship and the interconnectedness between angling and the natural world.


A Life Worth Living

A Life Worth Living

Author: Jack Hemingway

Publisher: Lyons Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592283354

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Jack Hemingway, son of Ernest Hemingway and one of America's best-known outdoorsmen, has written a warm and candid memoir of his life as an incorrigible sportsman. But be forewarned -- this is not a how-to book, nor a guide to secret places, though there is plenty of expertise and uncharted territory to be discovered here. Jack's season of a sportsman begins appropriately in the spring, at a dude ranch in Clark's Fork Valley, near the Yellowstone River. As an awkward six-year-old threading live grasshoppers on old, worn-out wet flies his father Ernest had discarded, Jack found his lifelong passion, much in the same way his father had so many years earlier as a child on Walloon Lake in Michigan. His summer would bring steelhead on the North Umpqua, fishing with Papa's newly christened "Christ Pants" that enabled him to "walk on water," and looking for trout along the Danube in the aftermath of World War II. Fall brings expeditions to the steelhead-laden tributaries of the Snake River, and fishing for Atlantic salmon, along with time for reflection and Jack's fervent belief that "there is always something new to learn." Balancing a self-effacing humor with a delicacy of prose both graceful and knowing, along with an introduction by Geoffrey Norman and a foreword contributed by Angela Hemingway, A Life Worth Living is a touching memoir of a lifetime spent practicing the sport he and his father both loved so much.