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Title

Every day was special : a fly fisher's lifelong passion / William G. Tapply ; foreword by Nick Lyons.

Author

Tapply, William G.

Publication

New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.

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Description

x, 186 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Thirty true fly-fishing tales by novelist and outdoor writer William G. Tapply.

Subject

• Tapply, William G
• Fly fishing > Anecdotes
• Fishers > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- pt. I. Where, when, why (Are we fly fishing yet? -- Opening Day 1938 -- Just an average day -- Same time next year -- Counting coup -- The truth about fly fishermen) -- pt. Cold water (Why trout eat, and why they don't -- When trout get antsy -- Dam it -- Out of season -- Tuna fish sandwiches and other inert materials -- Fear of midges -- My love affair with spring creeks) -- pt. III. Warm water (Bass-bug humbug -- Mr. Bass -- The perfect fish -- Just fishin' with Uncle Ray -- The pig boat) -- pt. IV. Salt water (First light -- Silence on the flats -- Turkey bones -- The bones of Deadman's Cay -- Spring break -- The hunt for November reds -- Daisy-chain blues) -- pt. V. Some flies (The mongrel bugger -- Bloodsuckers -- Clumped hackles -- Tap's Nearenuf -- Old-time New England trout and salmon flies).

ISBN

• 9781602399556 (alk. paper)
• 1602399557 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009045558

OCLC

• 464580632
• SCSB-10829275

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library