A Flyfisher's World

Description

"In this elegant collection of essays, Lyons reflects on a life spent fishing for everything from pike outside Paris to giant tarpon . . . off the Florida Keys" (Publishers Weekly). With classics like Spring Creek and Bright Rivers, Nick Lyons established himself as one of the great authors of fly-fishing literature. This ample selection of his articles and essays begins with a moment on Michigan's Au Sable River—the exact moment when the author lost his heart to fly-fishing. A Fly Fisher's World chronicles a fishing life punctuated by a revealing trip with one of his grown sons and mellow reflections from a hospital bed. This is the broadest of Nick Lyons's books, with sections on tarpon and pike fishing in the Marquesas and in France, bass bugging on a small Connecticut pond, and trout fishing on unnamed creeks and blue-ribbon western rivers, as well as reflections on such aspects of the sport as the flies that are the underpinning of it all, the pursuit of records, the odd characters he's met along the way, and the increasing challenge of crowds who pursue this ever-popular sport.