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Blood Knots is a brilliant and dramatic memoir of an angler’s life. It places Jennings in the front rank of natural history writers. As a child in the 1960s, he was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his home. Beneath their surfaces waited alien and mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide, he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow, and for years, he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves, including an inspirational young intelligence officer, from whom he learned stealth, deception, and the art of dry-fly fishing. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. It would lead to bright streams and wild country, but would end with his mentor’s capture, torture, and execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling, about great fish caught and lost, but it is also about friendship, honor, and coming of age. As an adult, Jennings has sought out lost and secretive waterways, probing waters at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest, as always, is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface, he suggests in this most moving and thought-provoking of memoirs, can you connect with your own deep history. Jennings offers here a striking, elegiac narrative for lovers of unique memoirs and the finest fly-fishing literature.
Trout Bum is a fresh, contemporary look at fly fishing, and the way of life that grows out ofa passion for it. The people, the places, and the accoutrements that surround the sport make a fishing trip more than a set of tactics and techniques. John Gierach, a serious fisherman with a wry sense of humor, show us just how much more with his fishing stories and a unique look at the fly-fishing lifestyle. Trout Bum is really about why people fish as much as it is about how they fish, and it is ultimately about enduring values and about living in a harmony with our environment. Few books have had the impact on an entire generation that Trout Bum has had on the fly-fishing world. The wit, warmth, and the easy familiarity that John Gierach brings to us in Trout Bum is as fresh and engaging now was when it was first published twenty-five years ago. There's no telling how many anglers have quit their jobs and headed west after reading the first edition of this classic collection of fly-fishing essays.
Every fly fisher wants bragging rights about landing a 32-inch behemoth of a carp. Even better? Adding extra colour to your tale by hooking the monstrous fish with a fly tied from a tuft of your golden retriever’s fur. These are just some of the tips, tricks, and fishing anecdotes packed into Stu Thompson’s illustrated fly-pattern book. Thompson, who has been fishing in the province of Manitoba and beyond for more than 55 years, has smartly grouped flies into categories such as chironomids, wet flies, dry flies, and streamers. Every fly pattern is accompanied by detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions for tying flies that work for multiple species of fish. From simple to more difficult (but always effective) the 101 fly patterns in this book were developed, tested, and proven—not only by Thompson but also by his friends across North America and Europe.
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
‘Every time I leave the world of work, family and community to wade into a river with fly rod in hand, I enter a sacred space that sometimes finds expression in the written word.’ In Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates—avid anglers, both—put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall with fondness the ‘company of rivers’ each is grateful to know, providing a glimpse inside a sporting culture teeming with literature, art and music. Part memoir, part objet d’art and part field guide, Casting into Mystery will delight passionate fly fishing practitioners and armchair anglers alike.
Continuing the proud tradition of Gunsmith Kinks®, Gunsmith Kinks® II, and Gunsmith Kinks® III, this newest member of the family - Gunsmith Kinks® 4 - presents 569 brand new gunsmith kinks to help you cure problems in the shop, to bring you new ideas for tools and time-saving fixtures for your gun work, to give you lots of solid and useful suggestions for your business and shop -- and, of course, to bring together all the jokes that have appeared in the Gunsmiths Newsletter since Gunsmith Kinks® III came out back in 1993. As an added plus, weve added many brand new Gunsmith Kinks® and jokes that havent appeared in any Newsletter yet. All are shop proven and written by the people doing the work and, every Kink® has a credit line identifying the author.Included are lots of instructions -- 64 pages in fact -- that walk you through a variety of processes - from Color Case Hardening to applying BakeOn finishes. How-to articles reprinted from Brownells BenchTalk Newsletter and a whole chapter dedicated to advice on proven ways other folks have increased their sales and, therefore, their profits. That same chapter has advice and counsel on subjects ranging from customer service, to making a buck and just about every other aspect of the business. 133 pages feature 167 job-specific Gunsmith Kinks® for handguns, rifles, and shotguns.To make finding all this tremendous new information easy -- for info is of no use unless you can find it -- the new Gunsmith Kinks® 4 is cross-indexed with ALL THREE previous volumes Gunsmith Kinks® , Gunsmith Kinks® II, and Gunsmith Kinks® III. If you look up a subject in Gunsmith Kinks® 4, right beside the entry you can see if there is more information on the same subject in one of the other three volumes, and which page to find it on.The sum total of know-how collected here is truly mind-boggling. You, the reader, get to tap into the job files of the worlds best gunsmiths and take advantage of the hours theyve spent figuring out how to fix the problem thats sitting on your bench!
The first in a new Stackpole Books series featuring 50 important flies from a particular region, tied by anglers with close ties and local knowledge of the place. This volume, by Catskills expert Mike Valla, showcases flies that work well on the water there and pays tribute to the region he knows so well. Though not a tying manual, each fly is featured in a spread that includes a large, easy-to-see image, recipe, and tying notes.
Ramblings of a Charmed Circle Flyfisher retraces over forty years of fly fishing the Catskill mountains first inspired by a two-part magazine article published in the spring of 1969. Cecil E. Heacoxs articles entitled Charmed Circle of the Catskills appeared in the March and April issues of Outdoor Life. Heacox wrote about several legendary Catskill Mountain trout streams informing the reader why they were charmed. Ostapczuk has been retracing Heacoxs journey ever since, taking his readers along on the journey.