An Honest Angler: The Best of Sparse Grey Hackle
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558216243 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A treasury of essays, columns, articles, and letters from an icon of fly fishing's golden age.
A Customer said Observations from one of the Orginial fly fishing greats!. Funny, thoughtful, honesta great compilation of short stories from one of the orginial sport/fly fishermen (and a superb writer) of the rivers!! Do not miss it!!. HATS OFF TO HIS DAUGHTER FOR PUTTING SUCH A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF HER DADS STORIES kurt frenzel really great reading the kind of book you can read over and over. "I find Grey Hackles books to be very boring" according to Author. I find Grey Hackles books to be very boring have read a few of them my thoughts were "Oh My God" this person has to much time on his hands. He has no imagination at all, but when one sits around tying flies all day what can you expect. I give it a one star rating because I couldn't find a - star rating.
His writing, like a smooth cast, deftly covers a variety of productive "waters," moving from the tall tales of fishermen to the finer points of presenting a particular dry fly to a particularly fussy trout. Sparse Grey Hackle is a legendary member of the fly-fishing literati, although he'd be the first to resign from anything that sounded as pretentious as "literati." For years his articles, writing he referred to with a usual dollop of self-deprecation as "huntin', shootin', fishin'" columns, delighted readers of outdoors magazines. An Honest Angler collects many of these pieces, reflecting the author's generous wit and experience, along with correspondence to noted fly-fishers. Although an outdoorsman in the general sense, Sparse was, abo