Quarter cloth over boards with a sewn binding. 154 pp; b&amp;w illustrations throughout. "It is impossible to read this without being reminded of Garrison Keilor at his best, which is very good indeed." -- M.F.K. Fisher "One by-product of current anti-hunting sentiment is that hunting lore gets lost in the process. In the musings of Proper, however, such literature lives on. Pheasant hunting is his focus and serves as a springboard for philosophizing on camaraderie, recreation, agricultural methods, dogs, outdoor equipment, property management, cooking, and other important facets of leisure or not-so-leisure time. Those who think hunting is hokey or barbaric have probably never read Aldo Leopold, Theodore Roosevelt, or Datus Proper. The love of land, seasons, or times of day, the old and new ways of outdoor sportsmanship, and the styles and manners by which we live are admirably explicated in these well-crafted essays." -- Henry T. Armistead, Thomas Jefferson University Library, Philadelphia Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Pheasants of the Mind: A Hunter's Search for a Mythic Bird

Sports & Outdoors

Datus C. Proper

Hunting & Fishing

PRENTICE/HALL

From dust jacket notes: "What the Trout Said is a fishing book in the great tradition, the tradition of Skues and Halford, La Branche and Marinaro. Datus C. Proper, like these acknowledged masters, has something authentically new to say about the art and science of fly-fishing. And like them he has the true writer's ability to say it with such authority and freshness of style that his book will be read for a long time to come. His thesis is this: that trout flies have been too often considered mainly in terms of pattern (meaning color) rather than design (meaning the way component materials are chosen and assembled) 'the difference between the two being', as Proper puts it, 'the difference between painting and architecture'. Design is what controls a fly's behavior on the water, and to a trout 'his food's behavior is more important than its tint.' The best authority on this subject is, obviously, the trout himself. Hence the title, and hence the author's ingenious and wonderfully informed attempt to understand and explain just what a trout (particularly a suspicious and well-educated trout) thinks of the flies the fisherman is trying to delude him with...."

What the Trout Said: About the Design of Trout Flies and Other Mysteries

KNOPF

Creased and worn dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

What the Trout Said : revised and Augmented Edition

Swan-Hill Press

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Pheasants of the Mind: A Hunter's Search for a Mythic Bird

What the Trout Said: About the Design of Trout Flies and Other Mysteries

What the Trout Said : revised and Augmented Edition