Fly Fishing Is Spoken Here : The Most Prominent Anglers in the World Talk Tactics, Strategies, and Attitudes

by Edited by Stephen Sloan; Paintings and illustrations by James Prosek

• ISBN13: 9781585747726
• ISBN10: 1585747726
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

This is a fly-fishing book that speaks to the dedication fly fishermen have for their favorite pastime. Whether you are a veteran fly fisher, a passionate weekend participant, or an enthusiastic beginner, you will come away from this terrific compilation with a better understanding of and fervor for this magnificent sport. FLY FISHING IS SPOKEN HERE gives you a broader perspective and encourages you to form your own relationship with fly fishing. This collection of radio interviews from "The Fishing Zone" (which reaches 200 stations and 1,000 cites) includes three new chapters from Joan Wulff, Joe Humphreys, and Lefty Kreh; interviews from experts in the field and writers on the topic; plus vivid artwork by James Prosek. Selections include interviews with James Prosek, renowned painter and author of a number of books, including Early Love and Brook Trout; Joseph Heywood, author of The Snowfly and Ice Hunter; Valerie Haig-Brown, daughter of Roderick Haig-Brown and editor of To Know a River; Jack Samson, former Editor-in-Chief of Field & Stream magazine and author of many books on World War II as well as the outdoors (including The Orvis Pocket Guide to Fly Fishing for Bonefish and Permit); and Ernest Schwiebert, world-famous lecturer and author of such bestsellers as Nymphs and Matching the Hatch; as well as many others. Through these diverse writings and interviews, the reader acquires a sense of the true importance of this sport, while glimpsing elements of the human condition as it relates to the natural order of the world.

Author Biography

STEPHEN SLOAN is the author of Ocean Bankruptcy (page 61). He is the founder of "The Fishing Zone" radio show, as well as "The Fishing Line" radio and television shows. Currently he is the chairman of The Fisheries Defense Fund and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(8)
on lzaak Walton	11	(12)
James Prosek
on Trout Fishing	23	(14)
Ernest Schwiebert
The Whirling Disease Foundation on Whirling Disease	37	(16)
on Fly Tying	53	(12)
Bill Logan
on Fishing without Limits	65	(12)
Art Nierenberg
on Fishing in Russia	77	(16)
Fen Montaigne
on The Snowfly	93	(20)
Joseph Heywood
on Streamer Fishing	113	(14)
Robert Linsenman
on Nymph Fishing	127	(12)
Joseph Humphreys
on Her Late Father, Roderick Haig-Brown	139	(16)
Valerie Haig-Brown
on Loch Lomond	155	(14)
James Cronnie
on the San Juan River	169	(14)
Jack Samson
on The River Book	183	(14)
James McBroom
on Trout in the Classroom	197	(14)
Joan Stoliar
on Trouting in Argentina	211	(12)
Ramon Aranguren
on Being Everett Garrison's Boswell	223	(14)
Hoagy Carmichael, Jr.
the First Lady of Fly Fishing	237	(14)
Joan Salvato Wulff
on Casting Etiquette, and much more	251	(20)
Lefty Kreh
Afterword	271