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Post by Uplander on Jan 17, 2007 18:05:23 GMT -5
Just received my copy of Gray’s Sporting Journal’s annual “Fly Fishing Book” in the mail today, filled with photos and stories. Never fails. Every year, come mid-summer I’m taunted by the arrival of Gray’s “Bird Hunting Book,” and this time of year they do it again with fishing. Torture!
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Post by JoeOverlock on Jan 17, 2007 18:46:48 GMT -5
Any good articles?
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Post by Uplander on Jan 17, 2007 18:49:53 GMT -5
Haven't read it yet. I'm going to read it slowly, over a period of several days. An article here, an article there. Gotta savor it....
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Post by JoeOverlock on Jan 17, 2007 19:52:52 GMT -5
I'll have to pick up a copy at the bookstore. You've got me intrigued.  |
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Post by Uplander on Jan 17, 2007 20:45:56 GMT -5
Without a subscription to the magazine, I don’t know where in the Berkshires one might pick up a single issue. Perhaps the big Barns & Noble in Pittsfield.
At any rate, I see the Gray’s website isn’t updated to the latest issue yet, so here’s the table of contents to this year’s “Fly Fishing Book:”
· Auld Red: A bright-water meeting with the Pride of Whitechurch, Hampshire, by Kevin Searock
· The Ghost of John Voelker: Rembering the nearest thing to a great man fly fishing has ever known, by Jerry Dennis
· Relics in Antique Land: Prospecting for native trout on Antoia’s Uzan Yayla, by M.S. Nakeeb
· Twenty-Three Skiddoo: Some fly fishers embrace obsolescence. Others have it thrust upon them, by John Hewitt
· Mongolian Digressions: Pursuing taimen, and truth, in a league of her own, by Genevieve Joelle Villamizar
· Rainbow: There was a secret waiting up in the canyon. At least for a while, by Trigg White
· Yarnspin: Reveille: Stirring up the bass during the dog days of summer, by David Witt
· Traditions: The King of Kings, by Will H. Dilg
· Recipe: International Cats; Whiskered sharks, African electric cats, and notes on bullheads, by A.D. Livingston
· Art: Thomas Aquinas Daly; Sporting art as autobiography, by Brooke Chilvers
· Angling: Tangled Up and Blue; Helping yourself out of a jam, I guess, without using too much force, by James R. Babb
· Shooting: Amecian Classic; How the modern gunstock became the modern gunstock, by Terry Wieland
· Expeditions: Fishing in the Land of the Big Feet; To Patagonia for big, well, everything, by William G. Tapply
· Books: Gierach, by Christopher Camuto
· Not Catching Fish: A Poem, by Mark Halperin
In addition, there are various photographic essays interspursed throughout the magazine.
Gray’s Sporting Journal. One of the best magazines out there….
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Post by JoeOverlock on Jan 18, 2007 11:41:44 GMT -5
Relics in Antique Land and Mongolian Digressions sound like two good articles.
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