The Fly Rod Chronicles - A Collection of Essays on the Quiet Sport of Fly Fishing (Paperback)

by Richard Landerman (Author)

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Product Description
Author Richard Landerman takes random, everyday musings and weaves them together with humor and substance using the common thread of fly fishing. His candid ruminations over such topics as life, death, sex, international politics, dentist's chairs, religion, art, literature, shaving lotion, lemon meringue pies, moustaches, growing up, skunks, and weather reporters will surely entertain you, cause you to reflect, and most certainly - itch to grab a fly rod. The Fly Rod Chronicles is a tapestry of a simple and provident life; an absorbing look back at the sport of fly fishing and one man's fifty year pursuit of this quiet pastime.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Sortis Publishing (October 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977202526
• ISBN-13: 978-0977202522
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #672,299 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chronicle of Life, October 13, 2007

By	Artwerks (Utah) - See all my reviews

This is a witty and funny book about life. The author takes you through life's ordinary experiences while tying in to his love of nature and fishing. This is a great read as well as thought provoking. Recommended!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fly Rod Chronicles - flyfishing is just the beginning, December 25, 2007

By	Thomas E. Williams (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Dick Landerman carries on a tradition of authors who examine flyfishing as a metaphor for life's journey - in the spirit of Ernest Schwiebert, Nick Lyons, and John Gierach.
But unlike the aforementioned authors, Landerman neither claims nor chronicles any special talent for capturing trout on a fly. He speaks for the rest of us - guys (and gals) with day jobs, civic assignments, kids and grandkids, aches and pains. In other words, the broad, unofficial flyfishing club whose members would love to spend their lives chasing trout, but settle for the limited time, talent and resources they have to pursue "the quiet sport."
There are musings on life's ironies, personal travails, government encroachments, unexpected setbacks, an often-bewildered spouse, and both good and bad days onstream. You'll meet a broad assortment of characters - a streamside critic coaching him on the art of netting a trout, a salmon-fishing guide who takes some big ones on a few highly unorthodox patterns, a non-fishing neighbor who asks, "What's the point?" To Landerman's credit, he makes a valiant stab over 206 pages to answer that rhetorical question, taking the reader from Alaska to Canada's Bow River, to Idaho's South Fork, and back again to his beloved home streams.

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for an angler's library..., June 6, 2009

By	Julio Silva "Fish360.net" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Reading The Fly Rod Chronicles is a pleasure. In chapter one, Landerman casts his line. In chapter two, he sets the hook. In chapter three, he starts his retrieve.

As Landerman pulls you in, he shares stories about his childhood fishing adventures, his uncensored views on fishing politics, his near death experience, his family fishing trips, SWAMBO, and George. He also captures the essence of fly flying. Fly fishing is not just about catching fish for food or modeling catalog merchandise to fashion-ignorant trout. Fly fishing is about learning, playing, mastering an art, and teaching others this art.

I must disclose that although I was released at the end of the last chapter, I am now hooked on fly fishing. I am in the market for my first fly rod!

Tempus fugit. Fly fish.