Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly Fishing - Hardcover

Tapply, William G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602390487 ISBN 13: 9781602390485

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2007

Synopsis

Fly fishermen everywhere will enjoy these varied, witty, and engaging adventures by one of America’s finest outdoor writers.  There is a long section on trout fishing called “Brookies, Browns, and Bows,” and another on the challenges and excitement of saltwater fly fishing, and an exciting group of memoirs about fishing near home and in far-flung and often exotic places—like the Minipi, Bighorn, and Norfolk rivers, where the trout can beggar the imagination, and where frustration can be the occupational hazard.  Trout Eyes is a love letter to the fish we pursue and insects they eat and the waters in which they live.

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About this title

About the Author

William G. Tapply was the author of dozens of books, including more than two dozen New England–based mystery novels and nearly a thousand magazine articles, mostly about fly fishing and the outdoors. Tapply died in July 2009 after a battle with leukemia. He lived and wrote in Hancock, New Hampshire.

Reviews

This collection of 29 essays by the author of the Brady Coyne mystery series arrives just in time for the flurry of spring and early summer trout and bass fishing. In his eleventh fishing book, Tapply pursues trout throughout the U.S., Canada, and Patagonia. He stalks bass and striped bass across New England and travels to Guyana and Belize for permit, tarpon, and bonefish. Many of these essays revisit favorite topics from earlier work—teamwork, friendships, the joys of small trout streams and simple bass fishing—but they never feel repetitive. As always, Tapply shines in capturing a fishing locale's ambience and in describing arcane fishing techniques clearly and simply, as he does here in reflecting on bass bug fishing and on short fly rods. He also writes affectionately and wistfully about his father, devoted angler H. G. Tapply, who died in 2002. Among fishing and nature writers, Tapply stands out for his assured prose, his good nature, and always solid angling advice. Rowen, John
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Edition details

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602390487
• ISBN 13: 9781602390485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240