Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish.Fly…
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Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish.Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. The targets--salmon, trout, and char--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win.
There is an art, too, in the crafting of flies. The allure, Kurlansky finds, is that fly fishing makes catching a fish as difficult as possible. Beautiful and intricate, some are made with more than two dozen pieces of feather and fur from exotic animals.
The cast as well is a matter of grace and rhythm, with different casts and rods yielding varying results.Kurlansky is known for his deep dives into the history of specific subjects, from cod to oysters to
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