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__Covering a span of more than 60 years, these classic fishing essays are brought together for the first time, celebrating the thoughts, pleasures and adventures of a devoted angler and renowned storyteller as he fishes some of the timeless streams of the Ireland, New Zealand and British Columbia.__Through the pages of __Casting Back__ Peter McMullan takes the reader from his youthful Irish beginnings in the 1940s to his time as a young journalist in Northern Ireland during the mid-1950s, through the 1960s and into today's western Canada and a totally different sport fishing environment.Pike and bream, roach, tench and perch were his original targets – what British and Irish anglers call "coarse" fish. Then, with experience and the passage of time, came brown trout and Atlantic salmon – the more highly regarded "game" fish – as angling with lures and sometimes even "garden olives" gave way to dressed silk flies and fine handmade rods crafted from split cane. Moving from Northern Ireland to British Columbia in the 1970s brought an entirely new dimension to McMullan's fishing life, as there were now Pacific salmon and legendary steelhead to be caught in stunning rivers too numerous t

Who reads Casting Back : Sixty Years of Writing and Fishing?

Author

Peter McMullan; ProQuest (Firme)

Publisher

RMB | Rocky Mountain Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781771601757

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Memoir, Nature