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Tight Lines, Bright Water: Travels with a Fly Fisherman

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No Idaho or western long-rod enthusiast should miss reading Dave Engerbretson's warm-hearted book, "Tight Lines, Bright Water." Dave is a Moscow, Idaho resident and former editor for "Fly Fisherman" magazine. Over the years his many popular articles on fly fishing generated reader demand for a collection - and this delightful and instructive fly anglers' feast is the happy result.

Not all the 29 juicy chapters in "Tight Lines, Bright Water" are republished articles, however. A number are revised and updated versions of past stories, while others are totally new. They range in coverage from flyrodding for Alaskan king salmon to Salmon River steelheading to the nuances of fly tying, casting, and custom-building rods.

Throughout each piece is a rare quality that shines through Dave's obvious technical expertise - this is one happy man! You'll see that elusive personal quality in chapters like, "Parents, Kids, & Flyrods," "The Joe Brooks Memorial Fly," and "He Was a Strange Old Man." It also peeks from between the lines of sections on leader design, the art of falling into rivers, and where-to treatises on Idaho, western, and Canadian flyrodding "paradises" - a pointedly popular Engerbretson word!

In his preface, Dave insists the book will not try to answer why people go flyrod fishing. It's an ironic testimony to both Dave and his upbeat writing style that in almost every section he manages to answer that question, eloquently if never quite directly.

The book is a compilation of just who Dave Engerbrettson is. I've had the distinct and honorable pleasure of knowing Dave, personally, for a good number of years now. He is not only a consumate writer, author, editor, photographer and one of the best darned fly-tiers gracing God's green earth .. he's just one heck of a nice guy! He is, just like he sounds in his writing.

This book will please, humor, inform and for the most part - improve your abilities as a fly-fisherman, tyer and your all-around knowledge of streams, fly-fishing, outdoor ethicity and just what makes for "good" in the outdoors.

Chapter 9 should be required reading for ALL parents; fishers or not.

You will be recomending this book to all who fish .. and then some. Read and enjoy.