Synopses & Reviews
For three years, Richard Louv listened to America by going fishing. To explore the cultures of angling, he traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific and to the Gulf Coast, too; from bass waters north and south to fly-fishing waters east and west. He joined a professional bass tournament on Lake Erie and got a casting lesson from fly-fishing legend Joan Wulff in Colorado. He angled with corporate executives in Montana and stoic steelheaders in the Northwest. He went ice fishing on Michigan's Upper Peninsula and fly-fishing for sharks in California. In the Midwest, he fished with the host of the nation's longest-running television fishing program. He spent time with the captains of Florida, the poachers of the West, and the regulars who fish the Harlem and Hudson Rivers in New York City.
Fly-Fishing for Sharks is the delightful result of Richard Louv's journey, a portrait of America on the water, fishing rod in hand. From Whitefish Willy to Bass'n Gal's Sugar Ferris, the people Louv writes about are simply unforgettable.
As diverse as the cultures of fishing are. Richard Louv found that certain values unite them. Most of the anglers he spoke with care passionately about the health of the country's water; some have pondered what fishing tells us about our changing relationship with nature. Every one of them finds something renewing, even healing, in angling -- and many of these men and women believe that fishing can be a thread that binds the generations. Louv discovers from a Hemingway son what it really was like to go fishing with Papa; he fishes and talks about fatherhood with Robert Kennedy, Jr.; and he shares the joys and pains of caring for his own children.
Fly-Fishing for Sharks is by turns funny, thoughtful, and poignant -- a revealing look at our country from an unusual perspective.
Synopsis
An award-winning columnist for the "San Diego Union-Tribute" takes a wacky, endearing, and life-affirming tour through America in celebration of our country's real national pastime: fly fishing. 30 photos.
Synopsis
For three years, Richard Louv listened to America by going fishing. To explore the cultures of angling, he traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific and to the Gulf Coast, too; from bass waters north and south to fly-fishing waters east and west. He joined a professional bass tournament on Lake Erie and got a casting lesson from fly-fishing legend Joan Wulff in Colorado. He angled with corporate executives in Montana and stoic steelheaders in the Northwest. He went ice fishing on Michigan's Upper Peninsula and fly-fishing for sharks in California. In the Midwest, he fished with the host of the nation's longest-running television fishing program. He spent time with the captains of Florida, the poachers of the West, and the regulars who fish the Harlem and Hudson Rivers in New York City.
Fly-Fishing for Sharks is the delightful result of Richard Louv's journey, a portrait of America on the water, fishing rod in hand. From Whitefish Willy to Bass'n Gal's Sugar Ferris, the people Louv writes about are simply unforgettable.
As diverse as the cultures of fishing are. Richard Louv found that certain values unite them. Most of the anglers he spoke with care passionately about the health of the country's water; some have pondered what fishing tells us about our changing relationship with nature. Every one of them finds something renewing, even healing, in angling -- and many of these men and women believe that fishing can be a thread that binds the generations. Louv discovers from a Hemingway son what it really was like to go fishing with Papa; he fishes and talks about fatherhood with Robert Kennedy, Jr.; and he shares the joys and pains of caring for his own children.
Fly-Fishing for Sharks is by turns funny, thoughtful, and poignant -- a revealing look at our country from an unusual perspective.
About the Author
Richard Louv is an award-winning journalist and columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune and the author of five previous books. He does most of his fishing in San Diego, California.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction: Shop Talk
Headwaters
It Changes Everything
The Lost World
Fish Eyes and Lizard Legs
Flyover Waters
You See That?
Mall Fishing
The Contender
The Contest
Sex and the Bass'n Gals
Hidden Waters
Whitefish Willy and the Northern Lights
Ice Flying
Poaching the King's Fish
Flywaters
True Story
Relics
The Fishermom
Industrial-Strength Fly-Fishing
Lodge Life
Fishing with Papa
Ghostwaters
Nick Raven and the River of Heaven
River Witching
The Giveaway
Fishing for Ghosts (or, Sasquatch of the Stilly)
City Waters
A Trout Grows in Brooklyn
Down the Potomac
Saltwaters
Captains of Florida
Bring Me the Head of Osceola
Renewing Waters
Murky Waters: The Morality of Fishing
Fishing with Bobby
Moving On
Notes
Index