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THE RIGHT ANGLE: If you wanted one book to introduce someone to ly ishing, this is it.
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FLY FISHERMEN tend to either not like reading ishing books very much—it keeps them from being out fishing—or to have shelves full of them. And ly-ishing books tend to be either all whimsy and about the experience, or densely practical. The Fly Fisher is both. Free of lowery language and rather pragmatic, the photographs and illustrations are extraordinarily beautiful; the ish drawings by Yusei Nagashima are wall-worthy. If you wanted one book to introduce someone to ly ishing, this is it.