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Book SynopsisThirty seven stories take readers from leaping makos near the fairways of Torrey Pines to midnight Atlantic salmon fishing on the fabled Ponoi. Santellaâs peripatetic lifestyle and eye for entertaining details â even those that have little to do with the act of throwing flies at fish â will make one look at fishing in a whole different way.
Trade ReviewSome fly-fishing books are not meant to be technical but rather to entertain and delight. Santella’s well-written short stories are about our passion: its anglers and fascinating essays. You will enjoy this one. -- Lefty Kreh, fly fishing legend and author of numerous books, including Casting with Lefty Kreh, Fly-Casting Fundamentals, and 101 Fish
The list of how-to fly-fishing books is at least a mile long, but there are scant few that delve into the “why” with such clarity and credibility as this one. Nobody else wades as far out of the main channel, but brings it home with such resonance, like Santella can. -- Kirk Deeter, Editor-in-Chief, TROUT Media
Tug is honest, fair and self-effacing, and it does what great angling writing should—it inspires us to get on the water more often to fish. If you don’t want to fish the world with a fly rod in hand after reading it, you better check for a pulse. -- Greg Thomas, Editor, Fly Rod & Reel
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Ferocious Gift Lures Anglers to Christmas Island The Karma of Broken Trailers Traveling Light Calgary — A City Where Trout Fishing Does Not Go to Die Chasing Juvenile Tarpon through Yucatán Mangroves Off the Links, Onto the Stream Frank Moore, Dean of the North Umpqua When the Roosterfish start to Run, Anglers Just Try to Keep Up Once Considered 'Trash', Carp Become Worthy Fly Rod Target Seeking Stripers in the Shallows of Maine's Casco Bay Nato and the Human Anchor Postcard from Homosassa In Ireland, Fishing for Salmon that Like a Crowd On Our Own on Alaska's Kanektok River Casting with a Master Salmonflies Awaken Western Trout, Anglers The Fish Whose Bite Is as Fierce as Its Name White Nights of Salmon Fly Anglers Are Drawn to a Toothy Adversary The Addictive Allure of the Steelhead's Tug Mojitos, Muchachas, y Sábalo Lobstermen Turn to Guiding in the Yucatán How to Get Skunked on the Bulkley and Threaten Your Marriage at the Same Time Makos on the Fly Size Does Matter When Spey Casting The Man Who Brought Trout to a Valley of Gravel Fishing with Lewis and Clark The Greedy Beady Egg Man Dylan: The Fly Fishing Years Feed your Fish Head Among the Hobbit Trout Rainbows All The Rainbows of Crater Lake It was Epic, Dude The Pledge No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Smallmouth in Greater Portland About the Author
