Fishing and Thinking

By A.A. Luce

Book Overview

This reprint of Luce's classic book on fishing describes angling for salmon, sea trout and brown trout on the streams, rivers, tarns and lakes of Ireland. The thinking side of things ranges from angling problems proper to weightier matters. It includes notes on the history of places where the author has fished, notes on boatcraft, on the effects of hydro-electric dams on salmon runs, and studies in the cause of the "rise" and "take".

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853101516
• ISBN13: 9781853101519
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Swan Hill Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Thinking ... but not only about fly fishing

Mr. Luce has done a fine job of extending the fishing metaphor into a study of life and classical philosophy.Don't let that description deter you from reading this fine book. It is accessible and thoughtful on so many levels that I frequently pick it up and open to a page at random just for the insight I can draw from that random passage.If Norman MacLean's father had put pen to paper (and if he was not as dogmatic as Norman MacLean paints him), this might have been his take on the world, fishing and morality.A great addition to any library.