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- catalog abstract "A salmon is a large and energetic fish inhabiting untamed places. A fly rod is a wispy featherweight stick of graphite or bamboo. Connect the first thing to the second by a length of line with a #4 White Wulff, and the comprehension of wilderness is immediate. And nobody has captured that magical experience and understands the process better than Lee Wulff--long the acknowledged dean of American fly-fishing in general and salmon fishing in particular. He was an. Enthusiastic practitioner and a generous teacher. This book--his last--gathers sixty years of experience and wisdom on fly-fishing for salmon. Here are thirty of Lee Wulff's finest essays on salmon: narrative accounts of trips to the most tantalizing waters in North America and beyond; ruminations on technique, equipment, and fly selection; spirited appreciations of the natural world (he was an environmentalist long before that word became popularized); advice to. Beginners and old hands on casting and reading a river. Wulff was the skilled tactician with an uncanny ability to get salmon to rise to his fly patterns, and he candidly explains his methods in these pages. Like the best books, this one is apparently about one thing (fly-fishing for salmon) while it is really about something else (the love of life itself).".
- catalog contributor b5823938.
- catalog contributor b5823939.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "A salmon is a large and energetic fish inhabiting untamed places. A fly rod is a wispy featherweight stick of graphite or bamboo. Connect the first thing to the second by a length of line with a #4 White Wulff, and the comprehension of wilderness is immediate. And nobody has captured that magical experience and understands the process better than Lee Wulff--long the acknowledged dean of American fly-fishing in general and salmon fishing in particular. He was an.".
- catalog description "Beginners and old hands on casting and reading a river. Wulff was the skilled tactician with an uncanny ability to get salmon to rise to his fly patterns, and he candidly explains his methods in these pages. Like the best books, this one is apparently about one thing (fly-fishing for salmon) while it is really about something else (the love of life itself).".
- catalog description "Enthusiastic practitioner and a generous teacher. This book--his last--gathers sixty years of experience and wisdom on fly-fishing for salmon. Here are thirty of Lee Wulff's finest essays on salmon: narrative accounts of trips to the most tantalizing waters in North America and beyond; ruminations on technique, equipment, and fly selection; spirited appreciations of the natural world (he was an environmentalist long before that word became popularized); advice to.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Nelson Bryant -- Introduction / John Merwin -- Ch. 1. The Atlantic Salmon -- Ch. 2. Something Fishy about Salmon -- Ch. 3. Well-Remembered Salmon -- Ch. 4. The Rod Bender -- Ch. 5. The Conversion of Samuel Shinnix -- Ch. 6. Charlie's Pool -- Ch. 7. Flight to the River of Ponds -- Ch. 8. On Delivering an Identical Fly -- Ch. 9. The Wonderful Pool -- Ch. 10. A Word of Advice for the Novice -- Ch. 11. Common Faults of a Salmon Angler -- Ch. 12. Salmon Fishing in Iceland -- Ch. 13. Fair Hood and Foul -- Ch. 14. Long Rod, Short Rod -- Ch. 15. How Fast the Fly? -- Ch. 16. How and When to Change Flies -- Ch. 17. The Strike -- Ch. 18. The Coho Problem -- Ch. 19. Bring the Boys -- Ch. 20. Sanctuary for the Salmon -- Ch. 21. Salmon Differ -- Ch. 22. Sex in Salmon-Fly Selection -- Ch. 23. The Wulff Flies -- Ch. 24. Fifty Years of Dry-Fly Salmon -- Ch. 25. What Makes Salmon Rise to the Fly -- Ch. 26. Gamefish Status for Atlantic Salmon -- Ch. 27. Terrestrials for Salmon -- Ch. 28. The "Rivveling" Hitch -- Ch. 29. Lucky or Smart? -- Ch. 30. Over the Years.".
- catalog extent "223 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Salmon on a fly.".
- catalog identifier "0671760653 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Salmon on a fly.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Salmon on a fly.".
- catalog subject "799.1/755 20".
- catalog subject "Fly fishing.".
- catalog subject "SH684 .W85 1992".
- catalog subject "Salmon fishing.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Nelson Bryant -- Introduction / John Merwin -- Ch. 1. The Atlantic Salmon -- Ch. 2. Something Fishy about Salmon -- Ch. 3. Well-Remembered Salmon -- Ch. 4. The Rod Bender -- Ch. 5. The Conversion of Samuel Shinnix -- Ch. 6. Charlie's Pool -- Ch. 7. Flight to the River of Ponds -- Ch. 8. On Delivering an Identical Fly -- Ch. 9. The Wonderful Pool -- Ch. 10. A Word of Advice for the Novice -- Ch. 11. Common Faults of a Salmon Angler -- Ch. 12. Salmon Fishing in Iceland -- Ch. 13. Fair Hood and Foul -- Ch. 14. Long Rod, Short Rod -- Ch. 15. How Fast the Fly? -- Ch. 16. How and When to Change Flies -- Ch. 17. The Strike -- Ch. 18. The Coho Problem -- Ch. 19. Bring the Boys -- Ch. 20. Sanctuary for the Salmon -- Ch. 21. Salmon Differ -- Ch. 22. Sex in Salmon-Fly Selection -- Ch. 23. The Wulff Flies -- Ch. 24. Fifty Years of Dry-Fly Salmon -- Ch. 25. What Makes Salmon Rise to the Fly -- Ch. 26. Gamefish Status for Atlantic Salmon -- Ch. 27. Terrestrials for Salmon -- Ch. 28. The "Rivveling" Hitch -- Ch. 29. Lucky or Smart? -- Ch. 30. Over the Years.".
- catalog title "Salmon on a fly : the essential wisdom and lore from a lifetime of salmon fishing / Lee Wulff ; edited by John Merwin ; decorations by Paul Bacon.".
- catalog type "text".