Hardcover with dustcover; large size; 176 pages. Neat and clean condition. The binding is tight.
Trout & Salmon: The Greatest Fly Fishing for Trout and Salmon Worldwide
An anthology with foreword by Nick Lyons and photography by R. Valentine Atkinson.
Vintage words and new photographs combine splendidly in this international homage to the salmonid, with the most surprising aspect of this semi-coffee table sized tome being that it works as well as it does given its ambitious scope. That is, tackling the world, so to speak, in one volume. Fly fishing for trout and salmon is perhaps the most thoroughly and excruciatingly chronicled sport there is and ever was. Libraries have been written on the subject over the past four centuries, and much of it is first class. So there is no lack of material for inevitable comparison. Yet Trout & Salmon is not exactly like anything tried before, which is mostly a compliment. The book is a compilation of essays, some contemporary, some historical, that together cover the beat. Each essay covers one country, and consequently focuses on the experiences of a single fly fisher-writer at a fixed point in time and predominately on only a few rivers. But, oh, how marvelous some of these writers are John Gierach, for instance, is the finest American fly fishing writer working today. Gierach's chapter, from his book Trout Bum, is on fishing the American West for trout. Other essayists and their country of experience include Britisher Brian Clarke on Argentina; the Scottish fisher Bill Currie on Russia, which is the hot, new salmon venue; Clive Gammon, a Welchman describing Alaska; Western writer Zane Grey on New Zealand; the incomparable Roderick Haig-Brown of British Columbia on Chile; publisher Nick Lyons on Iceland; and Tom McGuane on Canada....
- Fred LeBrun, a columnist for the Albany Times Union, is a lifelong devotee of the art and religion of fly fishing.
