Rod Rage

By Rhea Topping

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159228552X
• ISBN13: 9781592285525
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Rod Rage

An interesting, funny, and important collection of stories and photos of angling ethics, etiquette, and pointers on how to avoid confronts while angling.Should be in all fishing libraries.

A great read... very entertaining and informative

Not only is this book enlightening with regard to etiquette, it provides humorous anecdotes by some of the premier fly fishing personalities of our time. It's a very easy read, and being a fairly experienced fly fisher, I was surprised by how much I learned. It's a great read for beginners to experts alike, and I'm sure our waters would be a better place if all fishermen read this book.

A Guide to Enjoyable Angling

(Rod Rage; The Ultimate Guide to Angling Ethics; edited by Rhea Topping; Guilford, Connecticut; The Lyons Press; 2004; 292 pp; Hard cover; $22.95) Much of the present day writing is simply a repetition of the accumulated experiences and thoughts of our forebears, especially writing about fly fishing. Today's writers often unwittingly restate the knowledge they acquired through reading the older books and articles without crediting the earlier authors. When one comes across a book that actually quotes the writings of the earlier authors, it is to be treasured. Such a book is Rod Rage: The Ultimate Guide to Angling Ethics, edited by Rhea Topping (The Lyons Press, 2004). Ms Topping has searched the literature of fly fishing, from the 15th Century's Dame Juliana Berners to the 21st Century's Federation of Fly Fishers' Chairman of the Board Gary Grant, to find the best thinking about fly fishing ethics and etiquette. She has quoted often lengthy passages and complete articles from writings of more than sixty authors, many of the names well known in fly fishing circles. In compiling Rod Rage Ms Topping has not just accumulated other writers' work. She has written short, but insightful introductions to each author and closes the book with a summation of much of the thinking of the quoted authors. "Some Dos, Don'ts, and Solutions" cover such problem areas as "Crowding: The Biggest Problem", "Respect for Other Anglers", "Some Options for Fishing in Crowds or With Friends", "On Rights-of-Way", "On the Environment", "On the Law", "On Boats", "The Client's Responsibility to the Guide", and "The Guide's Responsibility to the Client". The book is illustrated with black and white photos and cartoons of some of the good and bad ethical situations as well as photos of many of the authors quoted. Rod Rage should be required reading for any fly fisher-no, any angler who goes to a creek, river, lake, pond, estuary, flats, or blue water to enjoy the sport of angling and tries to avoid spoiling the sport of others. Rhea Topping is to be commended for compiling the thinking of these authors as "The Ultimate Guide to Angling Ethics" for us. [...]