Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's ProgressRowman & Littlefield, 01.05.2002 - 224 Seiten One of the most eccentric and riveting voices to be heard in the world of fly fishing has his say on just about every aspect of angling. |
Inhalt
| 15 | |
| 29 | |
Fishing with a Wet Fly | 39 |
The Indicator Papers | 45 |
The Great Bream Expeditions | 53 |
The Idiocy of Youth | 61 |
New Roots from Old | 71 |
A Pond of Ones Own | 77 |
Leave It to Beavers | 117 |
Gone Mad in the Midday Sun | 125 |
Thy Rod and Thy Staff | 133 |
Branching Out | 141 |
Appleknocker Time | 147 |
Cabo Wabo | 155 |
Defenders of Midway | 165 |
Ursa Major | 177 |
In the Wake of Henry D | 87 |
Alone on a Nameless Stream | 95 |
Against the Grain | 103 |
Ungava Ungawa | 189 |
A Proper Toff | 201 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
anglers angling Appalachian Arctic Atlantic salmon Babb Bald River bank bass beadhead beaver blackflies blue bluegills boat bream brook trout brown bugs Cabo caddis camp cast catch caught char Chris chum Creek deer dorado dozen drag drift dry fly East Tennessee feet fishermen flies fly fisherman fly fishers fly fishing fly rod forest giant trevally green half head hook inches Kuujjuaq lake trout land leader live look Maine Midway Midway Atoll miles moose mountains never night North numbers nymph pair Penobscot pond pool pounds rain rainbows reel river rock salmon sharks small streams specks Spey sport spot spruce staff stripers surface Tellico Tellico River there's things Thoreau tiny tippet tossed trail trees trip trout fishing trout stream turn ulua upstream waders wading watching wearing West Branch wild wind woods wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Seite 2 - We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.