Tag Archives: books
A Passion For Tarpon
A Passion For Tarpon is dense. I received a review copy a long time ago, August I think. I wanted to read through it before commenting. Seven months later, here are my thoughts. This book surprised me. Hearing some pre-press … Continue reading
Filed under Florida, Fly Fishing, Reviews
Hard at Work
Tosh Brown and I have been working on making an idea for a book project a reality. A “large format pictorial on fly-fishing the Northeast coast” won’t work without large format-worthy pictures. So we’re blasting our way through some of … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Media, Northeast, Other Blogs, Photos
BOOK REVIEW: The Big One
Score one for participatory journalism. In 2007 David Kinney, a career newspaperman, dove headfirst into the collective insanity that is the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby. The result is The Big One, an exhaustively researched window into the … Continue reading
Bloggers With Book Deals
A guide in Alaska named Miles Nolte posts accounts from his life on the river into a thread on The Drake Magazine forums. The thread gets a following. One of the readers starts a publishing company. He signs up Nolte … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Lit, Media
BOOK REVIEW: Muskie on the Fly
Having spent many summers on a river where catching a muskellunge is an achievement that gets noted in the local paper, and having witnessed exactly one person hook one on the fly, I’ve looked forward to reading Muskie on the … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Other Blogs, Reviews
BOOKS: Men’s Lives
Reading Peter Matthiessen’s book from 1986 on the lost way of life of Long Island’s south shore surfmen and baymen. I’m a huge fan of Matthiessen’s trilogy of historical novels on frontier Florida, particularly Killing Mr. Watson and Bone by … Continue reading
Fishing with Dynamite
Reading a book called Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers, about the pre-park Everglades in the 1920s and 30′s. It’s a colorful read, with firsthand narrative like this: Well back in the ’20s and ’30s, dynamiting fish was quite common, … Continue reading
