Man breaks into bookshop - just to read JR Hartley

In a bizarre re-enactment of a famous Yellow Pages advert, a drunken burglar this week broke into a Tonbridge bookshop and read Fly Fishing by JR Hartley before calling police to confess his crime.

LINK (via: This is Kent)

A wise angler will shut up and listen to anyone with 30 years of steelhead fishing experience

In the case of Dan Magers, steelheaders should go further, forking over $25 and devoting a few evenings to serious study of his new book.

Magers, of Bigfork, has backed his steelheading savvy with detailed records of Idaho’s Clearwater River. The information will boost the probability of catching steelhead in varying conditions in any river using any method, he said.

LINK (via: The Missoulian)

Good Reads - Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat "Pelican"

Saturday, Labor Day weekend, 1951, dawned mild and cloudless over Montauk. Hundreds of passengers tumbled from the Long Island Rail Road’s weekend express train, the Fisherman’s Special, when it pulled in from New York City. The weather only confirmed the postwar optimism of the blue-collar workers who had thronged to this fishing village for a holiday of deep-sea angling.

In America, in 1951, it was easy to believe that anyone could make money and enjoy the good life, and no place suited that mood better than a fishing town. The Montauk fishing business was booming. The dock the arriving anglers swarmed over had been named, without a trace of self-consciousness, Fishangri-la, and the waiting fishing boat captains could see no obstacle to a record weekend.

Maybe it was naive optimism that propelled Captain Eddie Carroll away from the dock that morning with sixty-two passengers aboard his fishing boat Pelican, some thirty more than safe capacity. He was everyone’s favorite skipper, a handsome World War II veteran with an easy manner, an endless supply of fish and war stories, a sturdy forty-two-foot boat, newly rebuilt engines, and an uncanny ability to find good fishing. In his pocket that day he carried the ring that he would soon slip on the finger of his Swedish bride-to-be.

But Eddie’s luck was about to run out. Even as the Pelican cut its outgoing swath through the sun-spangled Atlantic, a jet-stream trough of Arctic air high overhead, undetected by forecasters, was pressing down on the pool of warm air beneath it like water building behind a dam. The Pelican and forty-five people aboard, including Captain Carroll himself, would never return to shore.

LINK (via: Amazon)

Lani Waller “A Steelheader’s Way” Audiobook

The Native Fish Society and Lani Waller have produced an audiobook version of Lani’s classic book “A Steelheader’s Way”.

Better yet, every copy of the audiobook comes with a free membership to the Native Fish Society.

LINK (via:Deneki Outdoors)

Angling and War: The Collision of Big-Game Fishing and WWII

During the 1930s, big-game fishing emerged from obscurity to become the new passion of American sportsmen.  By decade's end, the capture of gigantic fish on the flimsiest of tackle had become the stuff of front page news.  Suddenly ... war.  This is the remarkable andd untold story of how the newly emerging sport of big-game fishing was plunged headlong into the defining event of the 20th century: World War II.  That big-game fishing was severely impacted by the war is no surprise, but the contributions of the angling community to the Allied war effort were equally vast.  The story of how each affected the other is both surprising and compelling, and here it is.

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Vintage Chum - Splendid Splinter Edition

My recently acquired copy and inscription of Schwiebert's Remembrances of River's Past that belonged to Ted Williams.