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Breakfast at Trout’s Place – 1999  Ken Marsh will take you on a flyfishing adventure as only a native who has lived and flyfished his entire life in Alaska can. You won’t find a catered, cozy flyfishing camp with protective, professional guides in these stories. Instead, you’ll join Ken and his sometimes crazy, always interesting friends as they flyfish through the seasons in the real Alaska. Through it all, they’re on a search for solitude, for the untrammeled, and for a place where angler and fish can meet in one moment that can’t be taken back or forgotten. It’s the same search all flyfishers are on, but the scale is, like the state itself, much grander than most of the Lower Forty-eight

Wishing My Father Well  - 2000 William Plummer   A heartfelt memoir of three generations of fathers and sons who connect through their shared love of fly-fishing. On the South Branch of the Raritan River in New Jersey, Bill Plummer casts his line in the hope that fly-fishing might fortify him in the face of a failed marriage, the death of his father, and a faltering career. Inspired by the discovery of his father's fly-fishing diary, Bill sets out to understand his father's curious allegiance to the sport and uses the diary as a point of access to what he thought was a distant and enigmatic man. As he comes to delight in the peculiar pleasures of his father's favorite pastime, he finds in it an approach to his son and the strength for a second marriage.
Wishing My Father Well is a moving intergenerational memoir in the spirit of James Prosek's Joe and Me and James Dodson's Faithful Travelers that passes down the wisdom of a silent father--an unprepossessing man who was "closer to nature than the rest of us"--and opens our eyes to fly-fishing's seductive power to unite people in a shared appreciation of the majesty and serenity of nature

Cast Again – 1996  Jennifer Olsson is a spy in the ranks; her keen eye for detail and generous spirit make Cast Again a pleasure to read and a lesson to anyone bent on introducing a loved one to fly-fishing. A guide in Montana for more than 10 years before becoming a full-time writer, Olsson's voice is that of the infiltrator. She smuggles the usual bits of information--the dilemmas of a difficult sport--from the front but deciphers them through her own unique perspective. In "I'd Like to Get My Wife into Fly-Fishing," the narrator (also a fly-fishing guide named Jennifer) and her freshly coiffed client spend a day shopping on the sly at the western boutiques instead of fishing. In "Just One," the same narrator struggles to snare a fish for her inexperienced client, and when the woman finally lands a big, beautiful brown trout, the narrator hopes that her client's waiting husband won't ask, "Just one?" These are stories that sparkle and instruct

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