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US Mall 1 - Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die

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List Price: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 799.124 EAN: 9781584793564 ISBN: 1584793562 Label: Stewart, Tabori and Chang Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori and Chang Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2004-06-01 Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang Studio: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:      Summary: Dream book Comment: I really haven't in depth reviewed this, but I bought it for a friend who is an avid flyfisherman and I hope he can make it to all the places before he dies! I do think he has been to quite a few already, so maybe a later review would be in order.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Very informative and introductory Comment: It was a very good quality book, very informative. It is NOT a full informative planing trip gide, but rather a good place to start planing your own trips.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Where's the Beef, Er Trout? Comment: This is a beautiful book, one that is smartly designed and packaged, pleasant to leaf through and to handle, but somewhat lacking in substance.
Here's an example of the kind of lapse that would have been caught had the book been written for hard core fisherpeople. We read, "The South Island of New Zealand is awash with beauty and teeming with trout". And then a few sentences later, "The South Island trouting experience is certainly one of quality rather than quantity. A majority of the rivers simply don't support large numbers of fish. Some of the most fishy-looking water you can imagine may not contain a single fish".
So is the South Island "teeming with trout" or is it not?
Ultimately it doesn't really matter. This isn't a book about information - it's a wonderful collection of vicarious fishing trips. I'd never flicked a fly rod when I got it, yet I was engrossed, transported, and in the end captivated.
The settings range from intimate, "Brown Trout on Letort Spring Run", to grand, "Steelhead on the Dean River". Along the way we encounter tarpon, bonefish, snook, pike, redfish, all manner of salmon and trout, and even something known as a giant trevally that lurks in the waters off Christmas Island.
And the photographs are stunning. I only wish there were one for every destination.
Recommended to wile away a winter's afternoon while waiting for the ice to break.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die Comment: A wonderful book for the fly fishing enthusiast. A keepsake for all fishermen. A must have for the coffe table!
Customer Rating:      Summary: Beatiful places Comment: nice book, but i would like to see more pictures of the different species!! also some maps to locate some places would be great...I live in argentina and the 3 places chosen are great, although you must be a millionaire to fish rio grande!! Fortunately we still have a lot of places here to fish for free.
I would rather see a book where they tell where to fish and spent little money (as an example the book tells you that i f you want to fish rio traful, the only way to do it is going to arroyo verde lodge and thats no true!! you can do it for free if you want..there are accesses by foot or you can reach it by the lake, an there are other private places much more cheaper, but why they dont describe that??). Do not tell me where i can go spending $ 5000 a week because its obvious i could go everywhere with that money!!!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:      Summary: Dream book Comment: I really haven't in depth reviewed this, but I bought it for a friend who is an avid flyfisherman and I hope he can make it to all the places before he dies! I do think he has been to quite a few already, so maybe a later review would be in order.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Very informative and introductory Comment: It was a very good quality book, very informative. It is NOT a full informative planing trip gide, but rather a good place to start planing your own trips.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Where's the Beef, Er Trout? Comment: This is a beautiful book, one that is smartly designed and packaged, pleasant to leaf through and to handle, but somewhat lacking in substance.
Here's an example of the kind of lapse that would have been caught had the book been written for hard core fisherpeople. We read, "The South Island of New Zealand is awash with beauty and teeming with trout". And then a few sentences later, "The South Island trouting experience is certainly one of quality rather than quantity. A majority of the rivers simply don't support large numbers of fish. Some of the most fishy-looking water you can imagine may not contain a single fish".
So is the South Island "teeming with trout" or is it not?
Ultimately it doesn't really matter. This isn't a book about information - it's a wonderful collection of vicarious fishing trips. I'd never flicked a fly rod when I got it, yet I was engrossed, transported, and in the end captivated.
The settings range from intimate, "Brown Trout on Letort Spring Run", to grand, "Steelhead on the Dean River". Along the way we encounter tarpon, bonefish, snook, pike, redfish, all manner of salmon and trout, and even something known as a giant trevally that lurks in the waters off Christmas Island.
And the photographs are stunning. I only wish there were one for every destination.
Recommended to wile away a winter's afternoon while waiting for the ice to break.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die Comment: A wonderful book for the fly fishing enthusiast. A keepsake for all fishermen. A must have for the coffe table!
Customer Rating:      Summary: Beatiful places Comment: nice book, but i would like to see more pictures of the different species!! also some maps to locate some places would be great...I live in argentina and the 3 places chosen are great, although you must be a millionaire to fish rio grande!! Fortunately we still have a lot of places here to fish for free.
I would rather see a book where they tell where to fish and spent little money (as an example the book tells you that i f you want to fish rio traful, the only way to do it is going to arroyo verde lodge and thats no true!! you can do it for free if you want..there are accesses by foot or you can reach it by the lake, an there are other private places much more cheaper, but why they dont describe that??). Do not tell me where i can go spending $ 5000 a week because its obvious i could go everywhere with that money!!!!
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