GregF wrote:am I the only one who thought Nightwalk was really good?
Nope, I really liked it.
I got more emotionally involved with casting at the sun as mentioned in another thread, but I think I enjoyed How to fish better. I'm basing that on the fact I've read HTF three times and CATS twice.
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GregF wrote:am I the only one who thought Nightwalk was really good?
I struggled very much to get into it but after the first 20 or so pages it started to mean something to me. Things he noticed like the Hare not heading back to the leveret in a straight line but zig zagging to give itself more time to be alerted to predators, these things that most people wouldn't even notice.
It is a good book but in a different way to fishing books.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Scott wrote:Can a throw a swerve ball in here? The Waterlog Years. A collection of essays, rather like Gierach's work. I rate this book as one of his best....
Hear, hear. I enjoyed these very much.
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers,” Herbert Hoover.
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Scott wrote:Can a throw a swerve ball in here? The Waterlog Years. A collection of essays, rather like Gierach's work. I rate this book as one of his best....
Hear, hear. I enjoyed these very much.
Good to hear...I have it next to me on my desk, it's next up in reading rotation.
Scott wrote:Can a throw a swerve ball in here? The Waterlog Years. A collection of essays, rather like Gierach's work. I rate this book as one of his best....
Hear, hear. I enjoyed these very much.
I also liked it a lot - but it was not really a new book as it was all of course published in the Waterlog magazines.
One of my favourites from that book is 'The keys to the madhouse'.
I also really like 'Four Seasons' - it doesn't get commented on much - not sure if that is because its not liked much or because few people have read it.
There is no peace on earth like the peace of fishing in the early mornings
