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True Love and the Woolly Bugger

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If you ever have the need to walk on the wild side, rest at ease. Dave Ames has done it for you. This set of eclectic tales has the common thread of flyfishing, but the stories are more truly bound by the protagonist's need to push out the perimeters of life-as-usual. It's alternately romantic, adventurous, and weepy, with seamless transitions among all those emotions. Read it before leaving town next week-end, and the road will look different somehow, as if through tinted glasses...

Dave Ames is hilariously brilliant. True Love and the Woolly Bugger isn't just for fisher people, it is a great book for anyone who enjoys all views of life, only with a twist of fish! I would recommend it to anyone!

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I love Dave Ames and have found myself looking for more of his books. This contains some very good stories fishing in Montana (and Bahamas). Just a good read, funny guy, never boring, someone you feel like you could pull up a barstool next to and have a good conversation.

...and a little too predictable for my taste.

I presumed that the stories were fiction, are they?

Unlike Gierach where one gets the feeling of the real river, the soil, his personal experience through an inspired journalism, Ames is a craftsman writer. Perhaps I expected more from the hype?

Ames offers writing that is humorous and enjoyable. However, the main theme in this book is that one should simply act like a horse's ass to fully enjoy fishing. Look, I fly fish because I like to attempt to match wits with fish (albeit I mostly lose). It also helps that I can enjoy a few moments of silence, which is great after a whole day of hearing my own voice. I do not fish to chase anything in a skirt, avoid the Significant Other, or to avoid life. That is what Ames seems to explain that he did with his life in this book. That is fine, but I could care less what he does at night. And this comprises too much of the entire book, to the point that you do not get much of a sense of what the fishing locales he habits look like, other than through a drugged out fog. It simply was too much self-indulgent narcissism to wade through to enjoy a few snippets about fishing. There are much better writers (for example, Schullery, Baab, and Geirach) living the fishing life out there to justify buying this new.

I admit I am a fan of woolly Buggery, some may argue as per the last posts.
I like being buggered, it adds that special spice when the dom is woolly. It's like they dont understand the authors point of view, It kinda annoys me when people buy things yet dont understand what they are buying.

I must admit my Dad wasnt too impressed when i told him i am a buggery fan, but luckily my uncle (*his brother) totaly understood and I think it has improved our relationship. My uncle now spends a lot more time taking me out and enjoying our together pleasures.
Its nice to have a family that can enjoy the same interests.

I say this is a good guide to a family wholesome pursuit.

Lackness Mr. S