Calling After Water

By Dave Karczynski

Book Overview

This extraordinary first essay collection charts the journey of writer-angler Dave Karczynski as he fishes his way from the quiet streams of the Upper Midwest to the far corners of the earth-and back again. Calling After Water is one of those rare books that will both delight readers and invite them to reflect on their own love of fly fishing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493086464
• ISBN13: 9781493086467
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Vastly overrated

I generally follow Thumper's advice: "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all" However, after reading positive reviews of Calling After Water" , I ordered and read it, and feel compelled to ignore the rabbit's dictum. This book is poorly written. Granted there are few great fishing writers, Hemingway, Melville, Maclean, Haig-Brown being notable exceptions. Still, much fishing writing is decent, or even good, as in Gierach, Lyons, Tapply, Baab, Zern. Such writers are clear, descriptive, and inclined to report fishing details in a straightforward manner. This author's writing is overstated, obtuse, and forced. Many sentences seem contrived, with several adjectives artificially added for apparent effect. Beans for shore lunch are "other-worldly", most streams and sky scapes are religious or cosmic, and fishing itself is almost always reported to be celestial. Sorry, pal. It's not really like that. I've been fishing, and reading about fishing, for over 65 years, and in my opinion, the stories in Calling After Water sound pretty phony.