Welcome to Fly Fish Literati

[ron]

Hello. Fly Fish Literati is a group formed to encourage reflection and discussion about angling and fly fishing literature. Are you a fan of Tom McGuane? Have you just read the latest essay by John Gierach in Fly Rod & Reel? Did you stumble across a new online interview with Nick Lyons? Here is a great place to pen and share your thoughts with other like-minded readers.

[Alan]

Excellent idea!

[A.J.]

Great idea, Ron.

[Justin]

Thanks for setting this group up, Ron -- great idea.

[ron]

Hello. Two months have passed, and the Fly Fish Literati have begun a veritable brook's flow of good reading discussions. Thanks for your regular participation!

[sam]

Just a quick note to say hello. Thanks for setting this group up and Scott, thanks for posting about it on Cutthroat Stalker. I am excited to join, I have a PhD in environmental history and sociology, and my research is on fly fishing history and history of conservation, so I am very excited to talk with and learn from you all about the literary tradition of fly fishing.
Cheers
Sam
www.headwatersofhistory.com

[Erik]

I just found this as well. Thanks for setting it up Ron, and thanks to Scott for calling attention to it!

[Todd]

Hey ron, great group! Long time coming, I must say. This should be a lot of fun as I enjoy discovering (and rediscovering) great fly fishing literature. Speaking of which, I put a new post up on my blog that pretty much sums up my feelings on fly angling literature, written by one of my favorite writers, H.T. Sheringham:

http://fishinghistory.blogspot.com/20...

The gentleman's sport! What a novel approach to angling...

[Todd]

Thank you for the kind words. Actually, I've been very disturbed about the lack of publishing resources for fishing authors for some time. We hope to have our first fiction work (fly fishing mystery from a noted Maine guide) out by December, and we're always on the lookout for good essayists, poets, and fiction writers on all aspects of angling...I receive quite a few inquiries every week and hope to have a number of essay and fiction collections out in the coming year.

[Kat]

Why I didn't find this quicker, I don't know. Happy discovery, though.

[Jim]

I actually found this group a little while ago and have already been steered toward a book I am finding quite enjoyable, Bamboo Fly Rod Suite by Frank Soos. Thanks for starting this group.

[Ants]

Excuse me, if I got the order wrong, but a book (Casting a Spell) was added for the reading group and here's my first comment.

Enjoy the book. Hope you get out to fish also.

Ants

[Jim]

Not sure what book you are referring to, Ants. I just finished Gierach's "Death, Taxes and Leaky Waders". Wrote a review of it. Gierach...I dunno...

[Frank]

Just joined the group...and started a discussion about Threatened Species and Other Stories under the Fly Fishing Authors category.

What a great idea. I love fly fishing lit and even took a course in Fly Fishing Literature in my undergraduate days, which featured A River Runs Through It, Big Two-Hearted River, and The River Why.

[Kevin]

Hello all. I'm new to this group and I just wanted to say hello and see who's out there. I've been a fan of fly fishing literature for many years and I even dabble in writing myself. I'm sure it'll be a bit before I get a feel for this group, but I'll start tinkering as soon as I can. Anyone out there?

[Kevin]

Frank wrote: "Just joined the group...and started a discussion about Threatened Species and Other Stories under the Fly Fishing Authors category.

What a great idea. I love fly fishing lit and even took a course..."

A course in fly fishing literature? I didn't know such a thing existed. Cool.

[ron]

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Dear Good Readers --

Welcome again and again. There are active discussions on the new writing of John Gierach and David R. Bertsch active now.

-- ron P. swegman
-- founder & moderator
-- Fly Fish Literati



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[David]

Hello all,

I just joined the group and was excited to see a "fly fishing" literature group. I'm currently reading my first of many Gierach books and look forward to future discussions.

[ron]

J. David --

Welcome Aboard.

Good Reading . . .

-- ron P. swegman
-- founder & moderator
-- Fly Fish Literati

[David]

Hey there,

Good to see a fly fishing group interested in the literature of the sport!

Dave Micus

[Wren]

As a new member and assuming that there are actually some fishing stories that are truly fictional, can you recommend a novel that is centered around fly fishing for trout or salmon?

[Tom]

The longest silence

[David]

strong agreement re The Longest Silence. And will add Sydney Lee's 'A Place in Mind' as a resonating, thoughtful story of fly fishing, aging, friendship.

Also, the great short story by Ernest Hemingway - Big Two-Hearted River.

Cheers,

David