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BECOMING A FLY FISHER: FROM BROOKIE DAYS TO THE TENTH LEVEL
John Randolph
GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS, FALCON), May 2002; Hardcover
Remarkable story of the evolution of fly fishers, by the longtime publisher of Fly Fisherman magazine. Wise & riveting memoir of precisely how one begins to fish, learns the dozens of skills, & finally advances to true mastery. 7x9 inches, 256 pgs.
A major book by the famous editor and publisher of Fly Fisherman magazine.
John Randolph’s wise and riveting memoir of precisely how one begins to fly fish, learns the dozens of necessary skills, and finally advances to true mastery is destined to become an angling classic. It begins with early days on “brookie water,” an idyll of fishing small creeks for the most beautiful of native fish, and advances to thoughtful explorations of different rivers, hatches, the problems and mechanics of casting, and flies.
There are chapters on “Fly Fishing Sounds,” the religion of fly fishing, “The Wise Men” (Lee Wulff, Ernest Schwiebert, Lefty Kreh, Dave Whitlock, George Anderson, and others), and the literature of the sport; and there is a long chapter on the author’s catching of a fish of a lifetime, in Alaska. And finally, there is a brilliant section called “The Tenth Level,” which shows the expertise that has been achieved by a rare few who combine all the various skills necessary for a great fly fisherman into a stunning whole.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Randolph is the longtime editor and publisher of Fly Fisherman magazine, the largest circulation journal in the fly-fishing field. He has fished widely and frequently throughout the world, and his articles and essays often appear in Fly Fisherman. This is his third book. Randolph lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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