Crosscurrents : A Fly Fisher's Progress

by Babb, James R.; Leeson, Ted

• ISBN13: 9781585744947
• ISBN10: 1585744948
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

Jim Babb is one of the most eccentric and riveting new voices to be heard in the world of fly fishing in many years. He explores his first fly rods in "Blue Collar Cane"; his early use of the wet fly; and the expeditions he made for bream. Always, he fly fishes with a maverick genius, building a way of seeing and experiencing the world of fly fishing that is all his own, and that carries him from the ponds of Maine to great fly-fishing opportunities throughout the world as editor of Gray's Sporting Journal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xi
Ted Leeson
An Apology	1	(14)
I Taking a Set	15	(56)
Specks in Time	15	(14)
Blue-Collar Cane	29	(10)
Fishing with a Wet Fly	39	(6)
The Indicator Papers	45	(8)
The Great Bream Expeditions	53	(8)
The Idiocy of Youth	61	(10)
II New Roots from Old	71	(70)
A Pond of One's Own	77	(10)
In the Wake of Henry D.	87	(8)
Alone on a Nameless Stream	95	(8)
Against the Grain	103	(14)
Leave It to Beavers	117	(8)
Gone Mad in the Midday Sun	125	(8)
Thy Rod and Thy Staff	133	(8)
III Branching Out	141	(60)
Appleknocker Time	147	(8)
Cabo Wabo	155	(10)
Defenders of Midway	165	(12)
Ursa Major	177	(12)
Ungava Ungawa	189	(12)
A Proper Toff	201