Man Vs Fish
by Streit, TaylorFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary
"These stories catch fish. And all of them are hefty lunkers."--John Nichols, from the Foreword
Author Biography
Taylor Streit is the author of Instinctive Fly Fishing: A Guide's Guide to Better Fishing and Fly Fishing New Mexico. He guides out of Taos and Chama, New Mexico, and takes anglers to Argentina each winter.
At the time of his death in 2023, John Nichols had published eleven works of nonfiction and thirteen novels, including the classic The Milagro Beanfield War. A resident of Taos since the 1960s, his recent works include The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! A Novel; On Top of Spoon Mountain; and My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose (all from UNM Press).
At the time of his death in 2023, John Nichols had published eleven works of nonfiction and thirteen novels, including the classic The Milagro Beanfield War. A resident of Taos since the 1960s, his recent works include The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! A Novel; On Top of Spoon Mountain; and My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose (all from UNM Press).
Table of Contents
| New Mexico | |
| Rivers of the North | p. 1 |
| Ole Walter | p. 5 |
| Egocentricity | p. 12 |
| Red River Blues | p. 20 |
| My Valle Vidal | p. 26 |
| Rio Grande | |
| Fishing with Nichols | p. 31 |
| Colleen | p. 38 |
| The Side Less Fished | p. 42 |
| South America | |
| Amazon | p. 49 |
| The Five-Peso Float - Part I | p. 58 |
| The Five-Peso Float - Part II | p. 62 |
| By Hook or by Crook | p. 68 |
| Argentine Lakes | p. 71 |
| The Royal Brookie | p. 73 |
| Crying for the Argentine | p. 82 |
| Adrift in Patagonia | p. 87 |
| Salt Water | |
| Man's Superiority to Fish | p. 95 |
| Blue Hole Snapper | p. 99 |
| Marlin | p. 109 |
| Hunting | |
| Life and Death on the Sierra Alto | p. 117 |
| Raising an Elk Hunter | p. 123 |
| Zeus - God of Bird Dogs | p. 129 |
| Fifty | p. 135 |
| Collateral Damage | |
| Animals | p. 141 |
| Humans | p. 146 |
| Big for Its Size | p. 150 |
| Ice Fishin' at Eagle Nest | p. 153 |
| Which Way's Upstream? | |
| The Legend of Super Fly | p. 157 |
| Super Fly Sighting - by Warren Dean McClenagan | p. 161 |
| The Legend of Spifmeister | p. 170 |
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