Perfect Cast: A Celebration of Fly-Fishing - Hardcover

Quinn, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811710572 ISBN 13: 9780811710572

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2011

Synopsis

Inspiring collection of three centuries of angling stories and art Gems from the great angling writers, including Chris Yates, G. E. M. Skues, Izaak Walton, Dame Julia Berners, Arthur Ransome, Nick Lyons, Dave Hughes, Ed Engle, and Paul Schullery A perfect gift for the discerning fly fisher Salmon fishing, trout fishing, flies, perfect days, and the fish that got away"

About this title

Review:

I wish I saw more books like The Perfect Cast: A Celebration of Fly-Fishing. The success of any anthology depends on the taste of its editor. These short angling essays and artwork (drawings, paintings, photographs) were gathered by British angling author Tom Quinn, who has taste aplenty. In addition to a few American voices (Babb, Lyons, Schullery and Rosenbauer), this book puts in your hands the sparkling variety, warmth, and good humour of British angling literature... If you don't know British tradition, this is an excellent sampler and a fine fireside book, both for the images and the tales. I know the tradition pretty well, but I found a number of pleasant surprises here. --Gray's Sporting Journal, USA

This coffee-table hardback covers salmon and trout fishing, flies, perfect days, and, of course, the one that got away. --Countryside

This is a real coffee table book - the sort you can pick up and dip into when you have a few spare minutes, or simply gaze at the pictures, and in an instant you are on the river bank. It's an excellently chosen anthology of some of the best writing on fly fishing... The illustrations are superb and if the next best thing to fishing is reading about it, this book will ease the long days until April. --BASC Shooting and Conservation

About the Author:

Tom Quinn has fished the world over and is editor of Country Landowner magazine. He was the former assistant editor of Trout & Salmon and has written more than twenty books about the countryside and fishing, including Heaven Upon Earth (978-1-904057-67-3) and The Whisky Companion (978-1-84525-011-9).

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0811710572
• ISBN 13: 9780811710572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160