NATURAL RESOURCES BOOK REVIEW.The Fly Fishing Anthology Edited by Danielle Ibister (Voyageur voy·a·geur n. pl. voy·a·geurs A woodsman, boatman, or guide employed by a fur company to transport goods and supplies between remote stations in Canada or the U.S. Northwest. Press), $35 There is no great prose written about fishing with PowerBait, a bobber and a lawn chair. Fortunately, there is a vast body of first-class writing about fly-fishing and this book has gathered some of the best. Included is a graceful Ernest Hemingway story about fishing the Rhone Canal. Ace sports columnist Red Smith tells of his first attempt to tie an Atlantic salmon Atlantic salmon Oceanic trout species (Salmo salar), a highly prized game fish. It averages about 12 lbs (5.5 kg) and is marked with round or cross-shaped spots. Found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, it enters streams in the fall to spawn. fly - a fly as ``...misshapen mis·shape tr.v. mis·shaped, mis·shaped or mis·shap·en , mis·shap·ing, mis·shapes To shape badly; deform. mis·shap as the knuckles of an old baseball catcher,'' Smith wrote. The hawk-like vision of Ted Williams helps a neophyte ne·o·phyte n. 1. A recent convert to a belief; a proselyte. 2. A beginner or novice: a neophyte at politics. 3. a. Roman Catholic Church A newly ordained priest. fly angler catch a bonefish bonefish, common name for a fish belonging to either of two species of the family Albulidae. Albula vulpes is widespread in warm, shallow marine waters, and Dixonina nemoptera is found only in the West Indies. in ``I'm No Ted Williams'' by Charles Elliott. Fallen former New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times editor Howell Raines tells of his redemption from an early life of redneck fishing in an excerpt from his classic ``Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis midlife crisis n. A period of psychological doubt and anxiety that some people experience in middle age. midlife crisis .'' This handsome volume is decorated with color photos and paintings, new and old, that show great art has followed fly-fishing as much as great writing. This book will likely end up on coffee tables in fly-fishing lodges from the Skeena River in British Columbia to the Henry's Fork in Idaho to New Zealand's South Island. But it belongs on your coffee table, so your non-fly-fishing spouse can read it and learn why you've left her, if only for a weekend on the Owens River. - Bill Becher ON THE INTERNET Alpine Meadows near Lake Tahoe would be an excellent choice to spend a couple of days skiing or snowboarding and www.skialpine.com is a Web site that prides itself on getting you there. Skialpine.com has affordable packages that might be hard to pass up. The deals are accompanied by a menu that included The Mountain, Plan (trail maps, parks and pipes, stats and ski shop), and Buy (detailed lodging rates and online reservations, directions, shuttles and season passes). Also Ticket Passes (lift tickets and passes), Lessons and Rentals (clinics, programs, etc.) and Conditions and Galleries (snow report, park and pipe report, daily photos and wallpaper). - Nathan Brown CAPTION(S): photo, 2 boxes Photo: no caption (Book: The Fly Fishing Anthology) Box: (1) TUNE IN (2) CHECK IT OUT |
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