Angling with Raines

Plus, the trout whisperers and practical fly patterns

The One That Got Away: A Memoir By Howell Raines (Scribner: 2006; www.simonsays.com) 336 pp.; hardcover; $25 On the first page of The One That Got Away, a Memoir, author Howell Raines observes ". . . some fish haunt us like old love. They live forever in what Issac Walton called 'the boxes of memory.' Yet not all lost fish are equal. . . " To this he soon adds a curious, curiously resonant observation: "The governing emotion of fishing. . . Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.