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Pagina 12
... in the river and drowned , during which time his guest hadn't moved ten feet and was fishing a twenty - foot leader on a thirty - foot - wide boulder - strewn stream roaring wildly down a mountainside , said : " I let him fish .
... in the river and drowned , during which time his guest hadn't moved ten feet and was fishing a twenty - foot leader on a thirty - foot - wide boulder - strewn stream roaring wildly down a mountainside , said : " I let him fish .
Pagina 16
A foot of elevation equals just over a quarter mile of northing , and at around thirty - five hundred feet above sea level the brook trout of southern Appalachia live , phytogeographically speaking , in the cold comfort of Maine .
A foot of elevation equals just over a quarter mile of northing , and at around thirty - five hundred feet above sea level the brook trout of southern Appalachia live , phytogeographically speaking , in the cold comfort of Maine .
Pagina 18
We're about thirty - seven hundred feet above sea level , having driven up the steep , winding dirt road the forest service graded over the old wagon trail that led from the Davis Settlement to the Green Cove Store , where my father ...
We're about thirty - seven hundred feet above sea level , having driven up the steep , winding dirt road the forest service graded over the old wagon trail that led from the Davis Settlement to the Green Cove Store , where my father ...
Pagina 19
Below eight hundred feet lived native smallmouths and redeyes ; in the waters between lived only horny - head chubs . The rainbows and , later , browns initially colonized this vacant niche , but as their numbers grew the ...
Below eight hundred feet lived native smallmouths and redeyes ; in the waters between lived only horny - head chubs . The rainbows and , later , browns initially colonized this vacant niche , but as their numbers grew the ...
Pagina 20
I had wanted to fish Sycamore Creek — a Tellico River tributary that to me defines the perfect trout stream : no more than thirty feet wide , with icy crystalline water stair - stepping over big mossy boulders , its steep intimate banks ...
I had wanted to fish Sycamore Creek — a Tellico River tributary that to me defines the perfect trout stream : no more than thirty feet wide , with icy crystalline water stair - stepping over big mossy boulders , its steep intimate banks ...
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CROSSCURRENTS: A Fly Fisher's Progress
Gebruikersrecensie - KirkusA fireside collection of fly-fishing pieces, touched with—but not drowned in—folksy wisdom and whimsy, from Gray's Sporting Journal editor and columnist Babb. These short essays are divided into two ... Volledige review lezen
Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress
Gebruikersrecensie - Not Available - Book VerdictEvery few years one wonders if the fountain of talented essayists on fly-fishing is running dry. Then someone like Babb (editor of Gray's Sporting Journal since 1997) comes along. In this outstanding ... Volledige review lezen
Inhoudsopgave
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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 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 141 - Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Pagina 95 - I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 94 - Nature, though it be mid-winter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds and trickling rills ? What a place to live, what a place to die and be buried in ! There certainly men would live forever, and laugh at death and the grave.
Pagina 71 - ... the blue-jay, and the woodpecker, the scream of the fish-hawk and the eagle, the laugh of the loon, and the whistle of ducks along the solitary streams; at night, with the hooting of owls and howling of wolves; in summer, swarming with myriads of black flies and mosquitoes, more formidable than wolves to the white man. Such is the home of the moose, the bear, the caribou, the wolf, the beaver, and the Indian.
Pagina 61 - however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Pagina 71 - It is a country full of evergreen trees, of mossy silver birches and watery maples, the ground dotted with insipid, small, red berries, and strewn with damp and moss-grown rocks, — a country diversified with innumerable lakes and rapid streams, peopled with trout...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress |
| Auteur | James R. Babb |
| Bijdrager | Ted Leeson |
| Uitgever | Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1599216728, 9781599216720 |
| Lengte | 224 pagina's |
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