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The Tug Is the Drug Chris Santella

The Tug Is the Drug By Chris Santella

The Tug Is the Drug by Chris Santella

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Thirty seven stories take readers from leaping makos near the fairways of Torrey Pines to midnight Atlantic salmon fishing on the fabled Ponoi. Santella's peripatetic lifestyle and eye for entertaining details - even those that have little to do with the act of throwing flies at fish - will make one look at fishing in a whole different way.

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The Tug Is the Drug by Chris Santella

FISHING ADVENTURES FROM THE AUTHOR OF 50 PLACES TO FLY FISH BEFORE YOU DIE These thirty stories take readers from leaping makos near the fairways of Torrey Pines to midnight Atlantic salmon fishing on the fabled Ponoi to encounters with very friendly mujeres on the streets of Havana . . . and even offer an unauthorized (yet unequivocal) account of Bob Dylan's 1970s obsession with fishing. Santella's peripatetic lifestyle and eye for entertaining details--even those that have little to do with the act of throwing flies at fish--will make you look at fishing in a whole different way.

The Tug Is the Drug Reviews

Some fly-fishing books are not meant to be technical but rather to entertain and delight. Santella's well-written short stories are about our passion: its anglers and fascinating essays. You will enjoy this one. -- Lefty Kreh, fly fishing legend and author of numerous books, including Casting with Lefty Kreh, Fly-Casting Fundamentals, and 101 Fish
The list of how-to fly-fishing books is at least a mile long, but there are scant few that delve into the why with such clarity and credibility as this one. Nobody else wades as far out of the main channel, but brings it home with such resonance, like Santella can. -- Kirk Deeter, Editor-in-Chief, TROUT Media
Tug is honest, fair and self-effacing, and it does what great angling writing should-it inspires us to get on the water more often to fish. If you don't want to fish the world with a fly rod in hand after reading it, you better check for a pulse. -- Greg Thomas, Editor, Fly Rod & Reel

About Chris Santella

Chris Santella is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon, where he resides with his wife and two daughters. He is the author of 19 books, including Fifty Places To Fly Fish Before You Die, Fifty Places To Play Golf Before You Die, Why I Fly Fish and Fifty Places To Drink Beer Before You Die (all Abrams), and Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press, with Dr. Peter Marra). The Fifty Places series has sold over 500,000 copies. Santella is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Trout, Fly Rod & Reel, The Drake, American Angler, and Fly Fish Journal. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Travel & Leisure, and Links, among many other publications. When he's not at his desk, Santella loves to swing flies for steelhead on the Deschutes, Sandy, and North Umpqua Rivers, and to front Catch & Release, a four-piece rock band that plays original compositions...including a tune called The Tug is the Drug.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements A Ferocious Gift Lures Anglers to Christmas Island The Karma of Broken Trailers Traveling Light Calgary - A City Where Trout Fishing Does Not Go to Die Chasing Juvenile Tarpon through Yucatan Mangroves Off the Links, Onto the Stream Frank Moore, Dean of the North Umpqua When the Roosterfish start to Run, Anglers Just Try to Keep Up Once Considered 'Trash', Carp Become Worthy Fly Rod Target Seeking Stripers in the Shallows of Maine's Casco Bay Nato and the Human Anchor Postcard from Homosassa In Ireland, Fishing for Salmon that Like a Crowd On Our Own on Alaska's Kanektok River Casting with a Master Salmonflies Awaken Western Trout, Anglers The Fish Whose Bite Is as Fierce as Its Name White Nights of Salmon Fly Anglers Are Drawn to a Toothy Adversary The Addictive Allure of the Steelhead's Tug Mojitos, Muchachas, y Sabalo Lobstermen Turn to Guiding in the Yucatan How to Get Skunked on the Bulkley and Threaten Your Marriage at the Same Time Makos on the Fly Size Does Matter When Spey Casting The Man Who Brought Trout to a Valley of Gravel Fishing with Lewis and Clark The Greedy Beady Egg Man Dylan: The Fly Fishing Years Feed your Fish Head Among the Hobbit Trout Rainbows All The Rainbows of Crater Lake It was Epic, Dude The Pledge No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Smallmouth in Greater Portland About the Author

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CIN0811719634VG
9780811719636
0811719634
The Tug Is the Drug by Chris Santella
Chris Santella
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Stackpole Books
20170301
184
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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