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Series
Adventure Angler volume Series 2
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Micah Adams and Dave Bradley plan to camp at the northern end of Queensland's Fraser Island. A once-in-a-century flood has other ideas, but the boys push on and find some amazing fly-fishing along the way. There's a rampant school of longtail tuna followed by some of the finest shallow-water sight-casting for huge golden trevally.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning, bestselling author of COD--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky finds, is that fly fishing makes...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In David Coggins's previous book, The Optimist, he tackles the techniques of fly fishing and meditates on its virtues, recounting his triumphs and frustrations. Now, in The Believer, he deftly mixes travel, local cultures, further fishing challenges (some knee-buckling in their disappointment), and details his own experience as life and love crowd his time to fish. Self-consciously--and self-deprecatingly--Coggins embarks on seven far-flung fishing...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Tom Skerritt returns to fly-fishing for the first time since A River Runs Through It to narrate this documentary on California's history of coastal fly-fishing. Presenting never before seen footage, vintage photos, archival headlines and exclusive interviews, Rivers of a Lost Coast shows a side of California most people never knew existed. Includes scenes from the award-winning film, exclusive extra footage, deleted scenes, and other bonus features....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients the way dry flies draw trout. As Sheriff Martha Ettinger follows hoof tracks in the snow, she finds one of the men who has fallen under the temptress's spell impaled on the antler tine of a giant bull elk, a kill that's been...
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of two brothers, Norman and Paul Maclean, growing up in Montana. While Paul rebels against the stern nature of the boys' father Rev. Maclean, Norman pursues his dream of becoming a writer. However, despite the brothers' differences they are ultimately bonded by their mutual love of fly-fishing.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"It's April, but there's still snow on the Montana mountains the day a member of the Madison River Liar and Fly Tiers club finds a Santa hat in the chimney of his rented cabin. With the flue clogged and desperate to make a fire, he climbs up to the roof, only to find the body of a teenage girl wedged into the chimney. When Sheriff Martha Ettinger and her team arrive to extract the body they identify the victim as Cinderella "Cindy" Huntingdon, a promising...
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