Dances With Sharks

Plus, a book on staying physically 'Fit to Fish'

Dances With Sharks By Dave Ames (Lodge Pole Press: 2005; www.lodgepolepress.com) 190 pp.; hardcover; $25 It's an argument worth having: Just what subjects are fair game in fly-fishing literature? Just about everything to the devotee, I think author Dave Ames would insist, and I'm with him on this. If your story is about teaching novice Mayans to become fly-fishing guides, a la "The Jaguar God" in this Dances With Sharks collection, then a discourse on how machismo influences their approach makes perfect sense to me; and I'll willingly follow from there a discussion of the politics at play--and at war--between our country and Latin America. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.