Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's ProgressRowman & Littlefield, 1 mei 2002 - 224 pagina's One of the most eccentric and riveting voices to be heard in the world of fly fishing has his say on just about every aspect of angling. |
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... surface , and at the bottom of this one are places — certainly places with fish in them , but also those places that through birth or occupancy or affection we lay claim to and call our own , and that in time stake their own claims and ...
... surface , and at the bottom of this one are places — certainly places with fish in them , but also those places that through birth or occupancy or affection we lay claim to and call our own , and that in time stake their own claims and ...
Pagina 23
... surface nutrients than small trees , and the residue washes into the streams . It may be that as the forest matures and stream pH naturally rises , specks will gradually move downstream and displace rainbows , a fine bit of fair - play ...
... surface nutrients than small trees , and the residue washes into the streams . It may be that as the forest matures and stream pH naturally rises , specks will gradually move downstream and displace rainbows , a fine bit of fair - play ...
Pagina 46
... surface glare that has shielded fish from predators for eons , that lofty perch starts to wobble . Strike indicators are tools , like duct tape , cordless drills , or guns — inanimate objects , neither good nor evil . Although kidnap ...
... surface glare that has shielded fish from predators for eons , that lofty perch starts to wobble . Strike indicators are tools , like duct tape , cordless drills , or guns — inanimate objects , neither good nor evil . Although kidnap ...
Pagina 47
... surface . But if the trout aren't looking up — and they usually aren't , biologists and experience tell us then dry - fly fishing becomes only an aesthetically pleasing form of self - abuse . And there's a logical flaw in the dry fly's ...
... surface . But if the trout aren't looking up — and they usually aren't , biologists and experience tell us then dry - fly fishing becomes only an aesthetically pleasing form of self - abuse . And there's a logical flaw in the dry fly's ...
Pagina 48
... surface animate a suspended nymph in a convincingly realistic fashion . Of course in the view of traditional dogmatists , it's this self - guiding , self - animat- ing ability that makes catching trout with an indicator - and - nymph ...
... surface animate a suspended nymph in a convincingly realistic fashion . Of course in the view of traditional dogmatists , it's this self - guiding , self - animat- ing ability that makes catching trout with an indicator - and - nymph ...
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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 |
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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...