Fish On, Fish Off

The Misadventures and Odd Encounters of the Self-Taught Angler

Stephen Sautner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2018
The Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-4930-3694-3 (ISBN)

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Fish On, Fish Off is the angling version of Bill Bryson’s 'A Walk in the Woods'. Through a series of nearly 50 personal essays, the author explores what happens when the self-taught, DIY angler sets out to fish the world – and winds up stumbling into every possible pitfall and danger along the way. These include: getting chased from a river by an elephant, surviving a terrifying helicopter ride over the Straits of Magellan, and breaking his only rod on the second cast in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs.

Closer to home, he is swept off a jetty on Block Island by a rogue wave, winds up in an emergency room more than once with fishing lures hanging from various parts of his anatomy, and perhaps most daunting, surviving 30 years of the scrum better known as opening day of trout season in his crowded home state of New Jersey.

If Upriver and Downstream showed the poetry of angling, Fish On, Fish Off shows the scars.

Stephen Sautner is obsessed with catching fish. Any fish. From the Falkland Islands where he cast for sea trout next to an active mine field, to the Zambezi River where three-ton elephants guarded pools filled with tiger fish and Nile crocodiles. His stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Fly Rod & Reel, Wildlife Conservation, and Underwater Naturalist. Along with Sautner's 15 years of contributing to the NY Times, he is also the director of communications for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, where he publicizes the Society's conservation programs.

Foreword

Introduction: Fish On

Part 1: Early, Spastic Casts

Part 2: Snags

Part 3: Streamside Hazards

Part 4: Catching the Creeps

Part 5: Blood Knots

Part 6: In Foreign Waters

Part 7: Later, Graceless Casts

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2018
Vorwort	Ted Williams
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations; 20 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Guilford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
ISBN-10	1-4930-3694-7 / 1493036947
ISBN-13	978-1-4930-3694-3 / 9781493036943
Zustand	Neuware