The Tug Is the Drug [Hardcover]

Some fly-fishing books are not meant to be technical but rather to entertain and delight. Santellas well-written short stories are about our passion: its anglers and fascinating essays. You will enjoy this one.?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.Tug?is honest, fair and self-effacing, and it does what great angling writing shouldit inspires us to get on the water more often to fish. If you dont want to fish the world with a fly rod in hand after reading it, you better check for a pulse.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 Dylans 1970s obsession with fishing. Santellas 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.FISHING ADVENTURES FROM THE AUTHOR OF 50 PLACES TO FLY FISH BEFORE YOU DIEThese 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 Dylans 1970s obsession with fishing. Santellas 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.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 FllS6