The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing (Hardcover)
July 19, 2010
A pocket guide that offers insightful, plainspoken, expert advice for every fly fisher. Two highly respected outdoor journalists, Kirk Deeter of Field & Stream and Charlie Meyers of the Denver Post, have cracked open their notebooks and shared straight-shot advice on the sport of fly fishing, based on a range of new and old experiences—from interviews with the late Lee Wulff to travels with maverick guides in Tierra del Fuego. The mission of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishin (more…)
Reel Women: The World Of Women Who Fish (Hardcover)
June 19, 2009
Amazon.com Review
A couple of centuries before Izaak Walton took his rod and reel to the bank of the Thames and then returned to pen his classic, The Compleat Angler, an English noble woman named Juliana Berners reeled in the concept of fishing writer with a comprehensive how-to tract called Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angel. One of fishing’s best-kept secrets is that women have been avid, expert, and innovative anglers ever since. Reel Women exposes that secret with gusto, (more…)
Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die (Hardcover)
June 17, 2009
From Publishers Weekly
Santella, a freelance writer for the New York Times, the New Yorker and Fly Rod & Reel magazine, offers 50 short takes on the ultimate fly-fishing destinations in this beautifully photographed and nicely packaged volume. Each locale comes recommended by an avid fisher; for example, the founder of Frontiers Travel, Mike Fitzgerald, and his son, also named Mike Fitzgerald, suggest fishing for Atlantic salmon at Laxa I Adaldal in Iceland. Fly-fishing instructor C (more…)
The Ultimate Man’s Survival Guide (Hardcover)
June 16, 2009
The Upper East Side metrosexual may be good at cocktail chat, but a real man knows how to fight off alligators, create a tourniquet out of a t-shirt, and rescue a drowning person. Frank Miniter’s The Ultimate Man’s Survival Guide shows men how to do all of these and more, including:* how to fight off a bear* how to set a dislocated joint* how to pick the perfect cigar and bottle of winePresented in seven sections–survivor, provider, athlete, hero, romantic, cultured man, and philo (more…)
Rapala: Legendary Fishing Lures (Hardcover)
June 13, 2009
ReviewCD Syndicated Radio (Vancouver, BC), Sept. 1, 2005 “This book only adds to the appeal of the sport, but in ways it probably didn’t intend to. Certainly the nuts and bolts specifics are offered up here in big, grand, exhaustively detailed fashion, but it’s the gem-like quality of the hardware that impresses. These gorgeous baubles and trinkets are stunning to look at and lovingly catalogued in a book that’s both a surprisingly informative academic history and the closes (more…)
Hooked!: America’s Passion for Bass Fishing (Hardcover)
June 12, 2009
From Publishers Weekly
Given the demongraphies of angling, the bass book market should be even more crowded than the effusive trout market bass fishermen are more numerous, distributed almost evenly across the country and have a fanatic media and star system but the bass book shelf is usually spare. Even bass how-tos and celebrity books (like Jimmy Houston’s I Done Caught Me a Big’un) seem to carry less sales weight than similar trout-fishing manuals. This package of well-integrated (more…)
The Gigantic Book of Fishing Stories (Hardcover)
June 10, 2009
From Publishers Weekly
Who better to edit and introduce an enormous collection of fishing writing than one of America’s most accomplished editors and publishers of angling books, Nick Lyons. Lyons has turned over every stone to include a (more…)