by Dave Ames
this one is good!!!!!! well worth the read.... HILARIOUS
here's the scoop.....
Lodge Pole Press, November 2005
Hardcover; ISBN: 0-9770838-0-2
Few experiences can compare to a shark attack while casting to world record bonefish to help put a diagnosis of cancer in perspective. Fly-fishing winds like an interactive time machine through the pages of this book. These short stories, in the classic tradiiton, are funny, informative, poignant, & filled w/ enough action to keep you up reading late into the night.
Few experiences can compare to a shark attack while casting to world record bonefish to help put a diagnosis of cancer in perspective. Fly-fishing winds like an interactive time machine through the pages of this book, taking you on a 340 million year journey from Carboniferous mayflies the size of canaries to contemporary Mexico where the direct descendent of Mayan Jaguar Priests learn to be flats fishing guides. These short stories, in the classic tradiiton, are funny, informative, poignant, & filled with enough action to keep you up reading late into the night.
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DAVE AMES' BOOKS:
"Thought provoking, moving, sometimes powerful, & always entertaining, a welcome & necessary addition to the literary side of the angler's world." --Library Journal
"A perversely informative look at fly-fishing in several of its most mutant forms." -- Tom McGuane, author of The Longest Silence
"I can tell you straight up, without flinching, that one reason I like to read Dave Ames is because he makes me feel young again. And I am not a young man." -- Lamar Underwood, former editor of Sports Afield
"There's never been anything this powerful in the fly-fishing literature." --Gary LaFontaine, author of Caddisflies
"Humorous & down to earth, whets the appetite for wild rivers." --Hooked on the Outdoors magazine
