THE PERFECT FATHER'S DAY GIFT! Since the earliest writings of
civilization, people have been writing about fish and the pursuit
of them. Taut Lines is a book of the present with regular forays
into the past, reflecting not on where we're going, but where we've
come from. As all anglers know, the fish themselves are only half
of fishing. Finding peace, spirituality, or a sense of belonging in
nature; the meditative tranquility that settles into the mind and
body as you cast into the waters for hours on end; the
companionship or, alternately, the solitude: these are some of the
things that hook anglers as much as the fish. They are all explored
in this book. In the name of variety, coverage has been extended to
some fishes typically overlooked in fishing anthologies, up to the
great white shark from Jaws, the most famous (and feared) fish in
all of film and literature. There are as many types of fishing
literature as there are fishermen. One of these is humorous stories
about the follies that inevitably plague anglers. Several stories
of this type are to be found in Taut Lines, including Rudyard
Kipling's 'On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art' and Eric Witchey's
'Bats, Bushes, and Barbless Hooks.' Fishing is more than folly,
however, and so many of the stories tackle more personal and
profound subjects. Kevin Maloney's 'Soldiers By the Side of the
Road', Gretchen Legler's 'Border Water', and Gabino Iglesias's
'Fourteen Pounds Against the World' are just three of many
heartbreaking essays which prove that while fishing is an effective
medicine for grief and loss, it can also lead to contemplations of
death and mortality, both the fish's and our own. A passion for
angling is most often passed down through families, and so many of
the pieces in Taut Lines examine familial dynamics in relation to
fishing, like 'Fish' by Judith Barrington and 'Unsound' by Nick
Mamatas. There are great stories of big fish by angling legends
such as Jeremy Wade, Bill Heavey, and Zane Grey, along with stories
of daring rescues ('The Man in the Fish Tote' by Tele Aadsen) and
war ('I Used to Be a Fisherman' by Weston Ochse), alongside a new
modernized version of the first text written about sportfishing,
'Treatise of Fishing with an Angle' by Dame Juliana Berners and
'Fishing for a Cat' by Francis W. Mather, perhaps the earliest
known essay devoted to catfish angling. There are also some
long-lost classics, like former Atlantic editor Bliss Perry's
'Fishing with a Worm'.
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