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Book SynopsisBelgian Flats is the story of a fly-fishing guide named Cody who's hit a career dead-end after a dozen years guiding on a famed western trout stream. Cody's mysterious and bombastic mentor, JD, suggests that Cody take a job as a lodget manager at a prestigious Atlantic salmon lodge in northwestern Russia. The story follows Cody's travels to the Kola Peninsula and his encounters with the characters that filter throughfrom Oxbridge professors who can't cast, to philosophizing oligarchs, to Sami herdsmen who are not above kidnapping lodge staff to maintain control of their historic lands. There's even a love interest. Belgian Flats provides an offbeat and humorous insider's view of the fly-fishing world that angling aficionados will appreciate.
