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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The East Coast migratory striped bass has the same trans-species attachment with Long Islanders as the blue crab does with the Chesapeake region, and the cod with New Englanders; striper fishing is nowhere more exciting, or more socially complicated, than in early fall off Montauk, New York. After the summer tide of celebrities and vacationers leaves the beaches, local sportfishers form their own society around the parade of southbound migrations. Not the average "hook and bullet" reporter, Kaminsky took a sabbatical from his New York Times column to fly-fish Montauk Point through the October peak, lured by the life fantasy of one dream fly-fishing season, an angling "walkabout into something perfect and outside of time." The tides of his obsession with the fish in this place occasionally carry him way offshore into social history, local color and ecology of the bass. The real prose action is on the shallow flats of Great Peconic Bay and in the jockeying among guide boats and surf casters for prime casting positions for "blitzes" of feeding 40-inch bass. Kaminsky (whose cookbook, Elements of Taste, is due out from Little, Brown in October) is neither the first nor the most stylish voice for this fish and this place (the Montauk bass fishery has its own shelf in angling literature, which includes John Cole's Striper and Peter Matthiessen's Men's Lives). Nonetheless, most Eastern fly rodders will revel in Kaminsky's walkabout and feel as wistful as he does when the cold northeast winds finally put down the fish in November.
From Booklist
In this beguiling memoir, New York Times sportswriter Kaminsky recounts how he lived an angler's dream: fishing every fishable day at the peak of striped-bass season at Montauk Point on Long Island's East End. When Kaminsky wasn't pursuing bass with fly tackle from a boat, he was indulging his passion for cooking (while staying at the summer home of the late chef Pierre Franey) and observing life in the Hamptons. Saltwater and freshwater fly fishing differ greatly, and Kaminsky proves especially adept at explaining the differences, as well as offering sound advice for freshwater anglers hoping to succeed in saltwater. This thoroughly readable account works both as a fishing book and as a travel memoir: Kaminsky's sharp ear for dialogue is on display in his character sketches of the region's anglers, some of whom seem to have walked out of the pages of To Have and to Have Not. Recommend this either to aficionados of fishing lit or to anyone with an interest in the Hamptons. John Rowen
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The East Coast migratory striped bass has the same trans-species attachment with Long Islanders as the blue crab does with the Chesapeake region, and the cod with New Englanders; striper fishing is nowhere more exciting, or more socially complicated, than in early fall off Montauk, New York. After the summer tide of celebrities and vacationers leaves the beaches, local sportfishers form their own society around the parade of southbound migrations. Not the average "hook and bullet" reporter, Kaminsky took a sabbatical from his New York Times column to fly-fish Montauk Point through the October peak, lured by the life fantasy of one dream fly-fishing season, an angling "walkabout into something perfect and outside of time." The tides of his obsession with the fish in this place occasionally carry him way offshore into social history, local color and ecology of the bass. The real prose action is on the shallow flats of Great Peconic Bay and in the jockeying among guide boats and surf casters for prime casting positions for "blitzes" of feeding 40-inch bass. Kaminsky (whose cookbook, Elements of Taste, is due out from Little, Brown in October) is neither the first nor the most stylish voice for this fish and this place (the Montauk bass fishery has its own shelf in angling literature, which includes John Cole's Striper and Peter Matthiessen's Men's Lives). Nonetheless, most Eastern fly rodders will revel in Kaminsky's walkabout and feel as wistful as he does when the cold northeast winds finally put down the fish in November.
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From Booklist
In this beguiling memoir, New York Times sportswriter Kaminsky recounts how he lived an angler's dream: fishing every fishable day at the peak of striped-bass season at Montauk Point on Long Island's East End. When Kaminsky wasn't pursuing bass with fly tackle from a boat, he was indulging his passion for cooking (while staying at the summer home of the late chef Pierre Franey) and observing life in the Hamptons. Saltwater and freshwater fly fishing differ greatly, and Kaminsky proves especially adept at explaining the differences, as well as offering sound advice for freshwater anglers hoping to succeed in saltwater. This thoroughly readable account works both as a fishing book and as a travel memoir: Kaminsky's sharp ear for dialogue is on display in his character sketches of the region's anglers, some of whom seem to have walked out of the pages of To Have and to Have Not. Recommend this either to aficionados of fishing lit or to anyone with an interest in the Hamptons. John Rowen
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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