Dad's Day Sale

From Departure:

Father's Day is coming up, and If you're pondering a gift for Dad, we can save you some coin and spare you the humility of mall shopping for ties, golf balls, and soaps-on-ropes

30% off all harcover titles through June 10th!

There is also a Yeti Cooler giveaway goin on too.

Fly fishing is dangerous?

Wicked Eddies by Beth Groundwater is the second book in the RM Outdoor Adventures series.

Fly fishing is dangerous? River ranger Mandy Tanner had no idea until days before a huge tournament in Salida, Colorado. True, the Arkansas River can be a man-eater, but the rapids weren’t responsible for driving a hatchet into the neck of would-be competitor Howie Abbott―a secretive man who may have been cheating.

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Review of Fly Fishing for Sea-Run Cutthroat

Doug Rose likes Chester Allen's new book Fly Fishing for Sea-Run Cutthroat.

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A Train to Catch - A review by Nick Small

Warren Zevon, Frank Zappa and teenagers engaged in marathon, anaerobic snogging sessions are not necessarily what you’d expect to find in a fishing book (or a book about railways for that matter). However, Jon Berry’s odyssey, around a rail network which once catered for itinerant anglers rather more handsomely than it does now, is full of such colour.

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Dead Angler and More

by SlateRadio

In this excerpt from Slate's weekly sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, host Josh Levin takes a humorous look at fly fishing themed mystery novels.

Andrew Herd's The History of Fly Fishing

The History of Fly Fishing (originally published as The Fly) has been completely revised, rephotographed and greatly expanded to 440 full-colour pages. This lavishly illustrated work charts the development of fly fishing from humble beginnings to the modern day. The text of the new edition includes an extra 42,000 words, greatly expanding and updating the original and adds many completely new subjects - for example the history of fly tying equipment, the story of fish stocking and much more about the history of fly fishing in America. Additional volumes, Trout Fly Patterns 1496-1916 and Salmon Fly Patterns 1774-1914, will soon be available, listing thousands of fly dressings dating from medieval times to the beginning of the twentieth century. 

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