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Reflections of a Fly Rod

Author : Mark Usyk
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540779281
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of a Fly Rod written by Mark Usyk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish stories are like opinions. Everybody's got one. The difference is, people actually enjoy a good fish story. In his first book, Mark Usyk sets out to prove that he not only has a couple, but that he knows how to tell them as well. But are they really all fish stories? Or is he trying to unlock the mysteries of the universe as only an angler can? From his time as a cell tower climber with a bunch of fly rods packed alongside his climbing gear, to his days spent at a grungy and thankless production factory job indoors and all but cut off from the great outdoors, to memories of simpler days and the ones that got away, here are 61 short stories told by a self-proclaimed marginal fly fisherman. Whether they're about fishing or something more is up to you to decide.

Bamboo Fly Rod Suite

Author : Frank Soos
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342599
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Bamboo Fly Rod Suite written by Frank Soos and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painstaking enterprise becomes the central metaphor and the unifying theme for the captivating personal essays presented here. With sly wit and disarming candor, Soos recounts fly-fishing adventures that become points of departure for wide-ranging ruminations on the larger questions that haunt him. Coming to terms with his new rod in “On Wanting Everything,” Soos casts a skeptical eye on the engines of consumerism and muses on the paradox of how a fishing rod that becomes too valuable ceases to be useful. “The Age of Imperfection” begins as a rueful account of his botched repair work but soon changes into an insightful reflection on the seductiveness of perfection and finishes as an homage to the creative power that comes from mistakes. In “Useful Tools” Soos takes a decidedly pessimistic look at the age-old quest to combine the good with the beautiful and concludes with an eloquent appreciation of a good tool put to an unintended use. “On His Slowness” offers fresh new perceptions about the human costs of the ever-accelerating pace of contemporary life and the increasingly hard work of resisting it. More than a meditation on suicide, “Obituary with Bamboo Fly Rod” engages the issue of individual human responsibility and the ultimate question of “How to be” with equal parts humility and wonder. This elegant volume is handsomely illustrated with the full-color paintings of Alaskan artist Kesler Woodward. Rich in wisdom and physical appeal, Bamboo Fly Rod Suite is a distinctive and rewarding book with wide-ranging appeal.

Habit of Rivers

Author : Ted Leeson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461749093
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Habit of Rivers written by Ted Leeson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines’s Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he explores questions that engage most fishermen: What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited response? Above all, The Habit of Rivers is about ways of seeing the wonderfully textured world that emanates from a river.

A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod

Author : Everett E. Garrison
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1634508173
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod by : Everett E. Garrison

Download or read book A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod written by Everett E. Garrison and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the science and art of creating a one-of-a-kind bamboo fly rod. Fly fishing has a long and storied history. While many flyfishermen will find and purchase their favorite fly rod, there are those who desire to go a step further. For those discerning flyfishermen and women, simply buying a rod is not enough—they must build one. And just as fly fishing is an art, so is the creation of the bamboo fly rod. Many people believe that the best-feeling rods, particularly for trout fishing, are made from bamboo, and today’s bamboo rod-making tradition is particularly indebted to one man: Everett E. Garrison. Using principles he learned as an engineering student, Garrison created an exacting method of building rod—a method that for decades was a well-kept secret. These techniques are presented to the reader in A Master’s Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod, a classic volume written by Hoagy B. Carmichael to honor and maintain Garrison’s legacy. Completely illustrated with black-and-white drawings and over three hundred and sixty black-and-white photographs, along with copious notes on the mathematical and engineering principles that underlie Garrison’s unique rod-making technique, this book will guide you through each step of creating a classic bamboo fly rod. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Not All Trout Are Geniuses

Author : Melanie Lopata
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Not All Trout Are Geniuses written by Melanie Lopata and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Usyk is back with his third book. Third book?! Doesn't this guy ever run out of stories? Nope. From brook trout in the Adirondacks to bass on Devils River in Texas, he's got a message...You weren't born to just pay bills and die. Sure, finding a brook trout might be a little harder than ordering a pizza, but it's still a lot easier than going to work.

Streamside Reflections

Author : Steven J. Meyers
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press
ISBN 13 : 9780934429184
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Streamside Reflections written by Steven J. Meyers and published by Thunder Bay Press. This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Jerk on One End

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Random House UK
ISBN 13 : 9781860467776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book A Jerk on One End written by Robert Hughes and published by Random House UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing memoir, history, adventure, folklore and descriptions of the deep, this is a meditation on the excitement and pleasures of fishing. Robert Hughes traces his love of fishing back to his boyhood on Sydney Harbour, and recounts the high and low points of his career with rod and reel.

A River Runs through It and Other Stories

Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647223X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book A River Runs through It and Other Stories written by Norman MacLean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation

The Optimist

Author : David Coggins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982152516
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Optimist written by David Coggins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect fly fishing book for today's novice, enthusiastic amateur, as well as the devoted angler is part narration of the author's own angling obsessions and adventures, part practical how-to, and part meditation on a connection to the natural world.

A Place on the Water

Author : Jerry Dennis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312141271
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book A Place on the Water written by Jerry Dennis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-01-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing stories from his childhood up to the present day, Dennis relates to the reader his discovery and love of fishing, the environment, and life on the water. Blending memory and observation, this book is an exploration of subjects with broad appeal--love of land and water, the appreciation of nature, and the outrage at changes capable of obliteration. Line drawings.

Trout in the Desert

Author : Matthew Dickerson
Publisher : Wings Press
ISBN 13 : 1609404866
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Trout in the Desert written by Matthew Dickerson and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Dickerson takes his readers from tiny mountain streams in the southern Rockies of New Mexico to the mighty Colorado River at the head of the Grand Canyon, to the Hill Country of Texas, exploring these various waters that manage to hold cold-loving trout in the midst of the hot desert landscapes of the American southwest. This lovingly described journey brings us through Dickerson's own life of discovery and his love of fly fishing, trout, and the rivers where trout live. Though neither an historical nor a scientific text, the writing is informed by both. The book is illustrated by original prints from Texas artist Barbara Whitehead.

The Classic Sporting Art of Bob White

Author : Bob White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811738712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Classic Sporting Art of Bob White written by Bob White and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of 200 of Bob White's best paintings and drawings-of fly fishing, upland and waterfowl hunting, gamefish, birds, and dogs, and landscapes from Alaska to Patagonia. Text and sidebars provide background and highlight the artist's process"--

Fly-fishing-the Sacred Art

Author : Eric Eisenkramer
Publisher : SkyLight Paths Publishing
ISBN 13 : 159473299X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Book Synopsis Fly-fishing-the Sacred Art by : Eric Eisenkramer

Download or read book Fly-fishing-the Sacred Art written by Eric Eisenkramer and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the spiritual potential hidden in every cast of the fly rod. "For us, fly-fishing is about more than catching fish. We have been skunked on the stream too many times to count, and stood shivering in our waders in 45-degree water long after sundown. Yet, every chance we get, we head back to the river in search of trout and something more." --from Rabbi Eric's Introduction "Early in my fly-fishing career I remember telling a friend that there is so much to learn! Some forty years later, that is still true. Every trip I learn something new about rivers, fish and the natural world. Most importantly, I learn something new about myself. Every encounter with the waters of our planet draws me deeper into who I am and who I want to become." --from Reverend Mike's Introduction In this unique exploration of fly-fishing as a spiritual practice, an Episcopal priest and a rabbi share what fly-fishing has to teach us about reflection, awe and the wonder of the natural world, the benefits of solitude, the blessing of community and the search for the Divine. Tapping the wisdom in the Christian and Jewish traditions and their own geographically diverse experiences on the water, they show how time spent on the stream can help you navigate the currents and eddies of your own inner journey.

Bright Waters, Shining Tides

Author : Kib Bramhall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982714669
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Bright Waters, Shining Tides written by Kib Bramhall and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and paintings by the author that reveal his passion and love for salt water fishing.

At the River's Edge

Author : Jerry Kustich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963310927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book At the River's Edge written by Jerry Kustich and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of tales is from a man who lives a life dedicated to fly fishing. Told with passion and an obvious love of both fish and fishing, Jerry Kustich's stories feel like spnding time with an old friend.

The One That Got Away

Author : Tim Peters
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781977205681
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The One That Got Away written by Tim Peters and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over thirty years, with fly rod in hand, Tim Peters' travels to diverse places involve trips as simple as an afternoon at a state park to complex backcountry adventures. His experiences include angling for trout, bluegill, or bass whilst surrounded by the majestic beauty of Yellowstone National Park, the remote peacefulness of the Catskills, the clear streams of the Ozarks and the swift waters of the Great Smoky Mountains. He has ventured to Lake Miguel Aleman in northern Mexico and across the pond to the quiet, flowing rivers of central Ireland. Tim's love for the outdoors has now led him to employ his talents as a fly fishing instructor and guide for a renowned nature park. With the author's obvious passion for all things fly fishing, the reader becomes Tim's companion, able to recall his own experiences in nature, and to become inspired to traverse the stream once again to create his own new adventures. Outdoor enthusiasts will enjoy the light hearted writing, and the humor found in the adventures, as well as the depth of his reflections, fit for encouraging the younger generation to develop their own passion for the beauty of the great outdoors. Life lessons taught in joyful anecdotes that reach even those who do not yet know the difference between a fly rod and a fishin' pole...while even teaching same.

Wisdom of the Guides

Author : Paul Arnold
Publisher : Frank Amato Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781571881281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom of the Guides written by Paul Arnold and published by Frank Amato Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once you pick it up you can't put it down. Informative interviews with some of the best Rocky Mountain trout guides: Gary LaFontaine, Craig Mathews, Johnny Gomez, Jennifer Olsson, John Flick, Thomas Knopick, Larry Tullis, Mike Lawson, Charlie Gilman, Al Troth, Paul Roos. Priceless trout-fishing information presented by the people who are out there every day. Hatches, techniques, destinations, insight.