Book Reviews

Interview: Paul Doiron

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"The Poacher's Son" is a gripping new novel set in the wilds of Maine. The author is a long-time fly-fisherman and editor in chief of Down East Magazine.

Review: Lost in Wyoming

  • By: Seth Norman
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"Scott Sadil’s prose has surprised me since before Cast from the Edge: Tales of an Uncommon Fly Fisher (Greycliff Publishing). His craft improves with time; so does the clarity of his visions..."

EDITORS' PICK: Something's Fishy

  • By: Seth Norman
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You will find success stories in this collection of the author's columns, mostly published in this magazine or in Audubon. Tales of recovery that give you hope: return of the East Coast stripers, "America's fish"...

Northwest of Normal

  • By: Seth Norman
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Fly-fishing literature has new allies, even as old friends of the genre surrender—for the moment—to devolving exigencies of the publishing world. Skyhorse Publishers has picked up slack since 2006, with class-act books by William G. Tapply, Peter Kaminsky, Ted Williams, Ted Leeson and E. Donnall Thomas, Jr., among others. Now comes Barclay Creek Press, entering our world with a novel by John Larison. (At HQ, Fly Rod & Reel Books was launched in autumn 2009, with Fresh Water Gamefish of North America and In Hemingway’s Meadow, worth checking out.)

John Gierach's Fool's Paradise Reading/Signing Tour

  • By: John Gierach
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What could be better at the start of a new fishing season than another dose of John Gierach?

Celebrating Lefty

  • By: Seth Norman
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All the Best Celebrating Lefty Kreh By Flip Pallot, with contributions from the fly-fishing community 2008, Collectors Covey, www.collectorscovey.com

Gone Fishing

  • By: Paul Doiron
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To Read Tagewahnahn is to journey to eastern Maine's Grand Lake Stream

The Fly-Fisher's Craft

  • By: Fly Rod and Reel
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An exceptional look at the art and history of our exceptional sport.

Short Casts

  • By: Jim Butler
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Why Fly Fishing? A new DVD asks, and answers, this very question. By Jim Butler It all started at the Yale Peabody Museum, really. The Peabody was making plans to display a traveling exhibit from the American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF), called "Seeing Wonders: The Nature of Fly Fishing."