Dream Fish and Road Trips : Fly-Fishing Tales from Alaska, Montana, and Beyond

by E. Donnall Thomas, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781585747610
• ISBN10: 1585747610
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

DREAM FISH & ROAD TRIPS is a brilliant collection of fly-fishing stories from a man who has traveled the world in search of fly-fishing adventures, from Christmas Island and Hawaii to Alaska and Siberia. With writing both perceptive and disarmingly simple, hilarious, and informative, Thomas takes us along to some of the world's great places, fishing for species as regal as chinook salmon in Alaska, as humble as walleye in the Missouri River, and as mysterious as the red weke--a small, possibly psychoactive goatfish of great ceremonial significance to native Hawaiians. If Hunter S. Thompson were to take up fly fishing, he'd eventually find Don Thomas. Here's a marvelously entertaining book for all fly fishers itching to break out of civilization.

Author Biography

E. DONNALL THOMAS, JR. is a lifelong fly fisher, wingshooter, and bowhunter. A talented and prolific writer, he is the author of several books, including Labs Afield, The Double Helix, The Life of a Lab (page 187), Fool Hen Blues, Longbows of the Far North, Whitefish Can't Jump, and By Dawn's Early Light, as well as numerous articles for Gray's Sporting Journal, Fly Fisherman, Outdoor Life, Traditional Bowhunter, Fly Rod & Reel, Big Sky Journal, and Alaska magazine, among others. He was the 1995 winner of the Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Fiction Award. He lives in Montana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Alaska	p. 1
Promises, Promises	p. 5
Across the Inlet	p. 13
Saving the Best	p. 21
Tideline	p. 29
Lifeblood	p. 37
Montana	p. 47
Caddis by Night	p. 51
Road Trip	p. 59
Days of the Locust	p. 67
Stupid Flies, Smart Trout	p. 75
Big Bugs	p. 85
Huck Finn Lives	p. 95
A Creek for All Seasons	p. 105
Beyond	p. 115
Caviar Flies and Keta	p. 119
Mysteries of the Sian Ka'an	p. 127
Oro y Plata	p. 135
Death Bunnies and Yankee Flies	p. 143
Dream Fish	p. 153
The Absence of Sharks	p. 161
Christmas Past	p. 169
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