Ted Leeson has been one of my favorite authors since his first book in 1994, The Habit of Rivers. That book contained essays concerning his trip throughout the western United States mostly fishing for native trout. Since then he has written a fair number of books on flies and fly tying. I rarely buy those types of books, preferring the literary over the practical (let’s not think what that might say about me), but it is his essays that I look forward to reading. Two years after his debut book he More...

Ted Leeson remains one of fly fishing's best-known lyrical essayists, and for good reason; his remarkable "The Habit of Rivers" finds its way into almost every conversation about the alltime great fly fishing books.

Leeson imbues his essays with a deep sense of place and a keen sense of observation, and the only complaint I could previously muster revolved around his tendency to write too much about too little, wrapping his words into Gordian sentences that required a bit mo More...

Well I've really changed my initial opinion of this book - at first I just wasn't digging it, but by the end I was won over. A must read for the serious fly fishing literati.

I wrote a more in depth review at my blog if you're interested: http://tinyurl.com/2ed3mgv