Actually it IS kind of fishing related once you read on.
I am reading a really good book "Celine" (about an older, feisty, and fearless Private Investigator.) It's written by Peter Heller who wrote "The Painter" (another really good book). If you love quirky, intelligent characters and a bit of mystery - for example the book, "A Man Called Ove", check this one out.
Celine is looking for a man who may have staged his own death in Montana by a grizzly. She finds the tracker who investigated the attack, Ellie Chicksaw. He tells her he had seen many weird things tracking. And this part that he shares with her cracked me up. And since i thought it was an ingenious plot to keep people away from your sacred and secret fishing spot i wanted to post it here: (Probably some of you already had this idea!)
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"I knew an eccentric painter once in Colorado who carved a set of huge clawed tracks and glued fur between the toes and bolted them to a pair of running shoes. Jim Wagner was the character. He stomped all over the mudbank of his favorite fishing hole and it worked. Scared the crap out of everybody and he had the place to himself. People thought he was crazy for fishing there in the evening. "
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Buzzy, since you liked Ove, i think you will like this book too. It's very well written. Many fun characters i wish who really were people i could call up.
I read the book a "a life well wasted" or something like that about a fly fishing guide. They showed up to their favorite run to find a group already there. They were on a Indian Reservation. The guide started warhooping and shooting his gun in the air. The other group took off fast. It made me chuckle, because I could see it happening where I mostly fish.
Peter Heller sounds like a very interesting guy; I've reserved two of his books at the library, and will have to learn how to download a third, "Come Hell or High Water," from the library's online system, Hoopla.
Thank you b_illymac! I found it and put a recommend at the library. thank you! Or i may just buy it from Amazon. I want to read "Dog Star" by Heller next weiliwen. He really is a good writer from the two books i've read. He lives in Colorado and has also written for Outdoor magazine. I bet he fishes too. What i love about his books, aside from his characters, is that he has a great way of describing even small things.
I read a lot and (except i think Buzzy here outreads me) and i am pretty picky. I have to like at least some of the characters or i have to enjoy hating the villainous ones.
Thank you Alivia.... i am starting to read it now. Got it on my iPad from the library. So far it kind of reminds me of "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. (Buzzy is the one who told me about that book.)
I thought since the Soap Lake Girls were brought up that it was a good answer. We went from reading to 'geology' to practicing safe sex all in one thread.
Thanks for starting an innocent thread on reading and fishing, trust @b_illymac to twist in his favorite ladies . As to the geology references - IAFI.org will be hosting the groups annual meeting in Soap Lake this September (and I'm trying not to pollute this any further)!
From the very first page in Dog Star he is pissed off that there are no more trout.
"If i ever wake up crying in the middle of a dream, and I’m not saying I did, it’s because the trout are gone every one. Brookies, rainbows, browns, cutthroats, cutbows, every one."
From the very first page in Dog Star he is pissed off that there are no more trout.
"If i ever wake up crying in the middle of a dream, and I'm not saying I did, it's because the trout are gone every one. Brookies, rainbows, browns, cutthroats, cutbows, every one."
In Monroe, near the prison and along the Skykomish River, wearing a orange jumpsuit with printed black numbers on the front and back will part the crowds and give you some wide clearance and plenty of casting room.
I just fish naked, mumble to myself and give him fives a d fist bump to an imaginary friend each time I get a bite. scares them all off. bingo keeps intruders far away, kingd of like the orange jumpsuits near monroe, but much easier to jump into and clean
Also loved the part about when the author, his first time guiding for Long Black Braids, even though he has never been one gets his first taste of a fine red wine.
You may like the "Dead" series by Victoria Houston. I've read four so far, and enjoyed them all. Murder mysteries with a fly fishing theme. A widowed doctor, who is being taught to fly fish by the local sheriff (a woman) ends up tangled up in murders, and helps the sheriff solve them. It sounds cheesy, but is pretty good.
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