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Article: The Fly Fishing Anthology.(Book review)
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- Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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The Fly Fishing Anthology. Ed. Danielle J. Ibister. Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, Inc., 2004. 192 pp. Cloth, $35.00.
Danielle Ibister's Fly Fishing Anthology collects essays and excerpts from twenty popular sports writers--men and women--and exhibits them in a coffee table style album beautifully designed and arranged by Maria A. Friedrich. Most of the writing is of the hook and bullet magazine sort--quaint tales of great outings, lost trophies, streamside follies, old timers and fantastic flies. But the collection doesn't pretend to be anything more, and the superb photos (both contemporary and historic) and finely reproduced artwork make turning the pages a ...