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Crunch & Des: Classic Stories of Saltwater Fishing

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If you like fishing, South Florida, good stories with a human interest slant, tales with a moral to be gleaned, adventure and solid humor, you will enjoy these short stories of two fishing guides, their clients and associates set in forties era Miami and in the waters outside. The fishing knowledge of the author is clearly authentic, as is the capability to make genuininely likeable characters and amusing story lines. His love of this locale is apparent, as is his capability to translate the mood of his settings to his readers. Most of the stories were first published in the Saturday Evening Post. This is a keepsake book you will want to reread

I don't fish. But the short stories told in this book are great. If you enjoy great writing and stories with good overtones, then you'll enjoy this book. First read it when I was about 15. I still pick it up and read it at least once every year. I'm mid-40s now.

Set in the 30s and 40s, these short stories chronicle the working lives of two charter boat sport fishermen and their customers who sail out of a Miami, Florida fishing dock.

A great perspective on life in those times and better days in this country. A feel good book even for someone who isn't a feel good kinda guy. I'd loan you my copy, but I don't want to part with it. A book I'd want my kids and their kids to read.

Filled with many personalities and twists, but always with a good ending.

A delightful read that will make people looking at you wonder what is so amusing. Really captures the flavor of early saltwater sport fishing. Enjoyable whether you are a sport-fisher or not. Selected short stories from a larger list published in Sat. Eve.Post. Anxiously trying to find more by this fine writer.

Phil Wylie was a marvelous fisherman and he delighted in sharing the sport with his readers. Wylie never received the recognition he deserved as an author and it is hoped that more of his titles will be reprinted for a new generation. His humanity shines throught on every page he ever wrote.

If you fish blue water, come from Miami, or just enjoy well written stories about fishing this book is a must. Get a dictionary due to Philip Wylie's use of words or just read over them. Either way the stories in this book will reveal them selves to you as highly entertaining and redeeming for the fishing soul. Great stories like these are hard to find!!

Having read some of the stories when originally published, it was a great pleasure to see them again, just as I remembered. It is fantastic to be able to read good stories, without the gore and F-words thrown in. These stories are well written and fun to read. Good reading for teens on up.

I love this book! Each short story holds your absolute attention, not only for the great fishing, but also the entertaining life lessons each new character brings. You don't have to be interested in fishing to like Crunch & Des, but if you are, you'll appreciate it all the more. I highly recommend this book. I'm buying copies for friends.

This is a wonderfully written and thoroughly entertaining book. I never ever want to go fishing, but I find that Wylie's accounts make even a nonfisher a reader of fish and fishermen(and women)