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Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die is the latest offering in the bestselling Fifty Places series. Chris Santellas first book, Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die, has more than 100,000 copies in print, and Santellanow a regular fly-fishing contributor to the New York Times and many angling periodicalshas finally returned to the subject that started it all. Santella profiles 50 more first-class fly-fishing destinations around the world, as shared by top fishing-expedition leaders and journalists. This volume includes many of fly fishings next big things: fishing in San Diego for mako sharks; sight-casting in Bolivia for golden dorado; flats-style striper fishing in Maines Casco Bay; nocturnal sea trout angling in Wales; and fishing for giant mahseer in the Himalayan foothills of India. Gorgeous photography showcases the beauty of these destinations, and the If You Go section enables readers to embark on the fishing trips themselves.Praise for Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die:The photos are sharp, the prose is compelling (Santella is one of the best in this business), the research is supremely thorough . . . and as such, the ride through 50 More Places is very much worth taking. Field and Stream.com

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	16 novembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781613121917
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Other Books by Chris Santella

Fifty Favorite Fly-Fishing Tales
Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die
Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die
Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die
Fifty Places to Hike Before You Die
Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die
Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die
Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die

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This book is for my girls, Cassidy, Annabel, and Deidre, and the waters that I hope we ll one day fish together or at least read a book by!
Contents
Acknowledgments / Foreword / Introduction
THE DESTINATIONS

1 Alaska-Kodiak Island: Karluk River RECOMMENDED BY KIRK DEETER
2 Alaska-Quinhagak: Kanektok River RECOMMENDED BY ANDREW BENNETT
3 Alberta: Bow River RECOMMENDED BY MIKE GIFFORD
4 Argentina: Jurassic Lake RECOMMENDED BY CHRISTER SJ BERG
5 Australia-Cape York: Gulf of Carpentaria RECOMMENDED BY GREG BETHUNE
6 Australia-Tasmania: Central Highlands RECOMMENDED BY KEN ORR
7 Belize-Mainland: Punta Gorda RECOMMENDED BY JIM KLUG
8 Belize-Offshore: Turneffe Atoll RECOMMENDED BY STEVE ABEL
9 Bolivia: Asunta and Pluma Rivers RECOMMENDED BY BRIAN GIES
10 British Columbia-Omineca Mountains: Sustut River RECOMMENDED BY KEN MORRISH
11 British Columbia-West Kootenay: Columbia River RECOMMENDED BY GEOFF MUELLER
12 California: San Diego RECOMMENDED BY CONWAY BOWMAN
13 Chile: Rio Cisnes RECOMMENDED BY TIM PURVIS
14 Colorado-Denver: South Platte River RECOMMENDED BY WILL RICE
15 Colorado-Pagosa Springs: Rio Blanco RECOMMENDED BY JIM HILL
16 England: Derbyshire Wye RECOMMENDED BY DR. JOHN SMITH
17 Florida: Homosassa Springs RECOMMENDED BY MAC MCKEEVER
18 Guatemala: Puerto San Jos RECOMMENDED BY CHUCK FURIMSKY
19 Hawaii: Oahu RECOMMENDED BY MIKE HENNESSY
20 Iceland-Akureyri: Upper Lax I Adaldal RECOMMENDED BY PETER MCLEOD
21 Iceland-Hvammstang: Mi fjar ar River RECOMMENDED BY APRIL VOKEY
22 Idaho-Driggs: South Fork of the Snake RECOMMENDED BY RANDY BERRY
23 Idaho-Ketchum/Sun Valley: Silver Creek RECOMMENDED BY BOB UNNASCH
24 India: Western Ramganga River RECOMMENDED BY JEFF CURRIER
25 Ireland: River Moy RECOMMENDED BY JOE HEALY
26 Maine: Casco Bay RECOMMENDED BY ERIC WALLACE
27 Mexico-Baja California Sur: East Cape RECOMMENDED BY JAD DONALDSON
28 Mexico-Yucat n: Costa Maya RECOMMENDED BY BILL MARTS
29 Montana: Big Hole River RECOMMENDED BY DENISE SCHREIBER
30 New Brunswick: Miramichi River RECOMMENDED BY BILL TAYLOR
31 Newfoundland and Labrador: Hawke River RECOMMENDED BY MIKE CROSBY
32 North Carolina: Cape Lookout RECOMMENDED BY JAKE JORDAN
33 North Carolina/Tennessee: Great Smoky Mountains National Park RECOMMENDED BY IANRUTTER
34 Norway: M lselv River RECOMMENDED BY MARK HEWETSON-BROWN
35 Oregon-Camp Sherman: Metolius River RECOMMENDED BY JOHN JUDY
36 Oregon-Condon: John Day River RECOMMENDED BY MARTY SHEPPARD
37 Seychelles: Outer Atolls RECOMMENDED BY HENRY GILBEY
38 Slovenia: Soca River RECOMMENDED BY ROK LUSTRIK
39 South Africa: Vaal River RECOMMENDED BY GERHARD LAUBSCHER
40 Texas-Gulf Coast: Port O Connor RECOMMENDED BY KEVIN TOWNSHEND
41 Texas-Hill Country: Llano River RECOMMENDED BY TIM ROMANO
42 Texas-South Padre Island: Laguna Madre RECOMMENDED BY ERIC GLASS
43 Venezuela: Los Roques RECOMMENDED BY JOEL LA FOLLETTE
44 Wales: Rivers Teifi and Towy RECOMMENDED BY STEFFAN JONES
45 Washington, DC: Middle Potomac River RECOMMENDED BY MIKE BAILEY
46 Washington-Kalaloch: Queets River RECOMMENDED BY MIKE DICKSON
47 Washington-Seattle: Puget Sound RECOMMENDED BY DAVE MCCOY
48 Wisconsin-Fennimore to Hudson: The Driftless Region RECOMMENDED BY DR.GARY BORGER
49 Wisconsin-Northwoods: Greater Hayward RECOMMENDED BY ROBERT TOMES
50 Wyoming/Colorado: Upper North Platte River RECOMMENDED BY JOHN LAND LE COQ
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book would not have been possible without the generous assistance of the expert anglers who shared their time and experience to help bring these fifty great fishing locales to life. To these men and women, I offer the most heartfelt thanks. I would especially like to thank Mac McKeever and Ken Morrish, who both offered encouragement and made many introductions on my behalf. I also wish to acknowledge the fine efforts of my agent, Stephanie Kip Rostan, my editors Wesley Royce and Jennifer Levesque, designer Anna Christian, and copyeditor Ashley Benning who helped bring the book into being. I ve had the good fortune over the last thirty years to make many fine fishing friends who have furthered my horizons, both in terms of angling experiences and a greater appreciation of life. This list includes Howard Kyser, Peter Marra, Ken Matsumoto, Jeff Sang, Joe Runyon, Mark Harrison, Peter Gyerko, Tim Purvis, Geoff Roach, Kenton Quist, Mike Marcus, John Smith, David Moscowitz, Ken Helm, Bryce Tedford, Darrell Hanks, and Hamp Byerly. I look forward to many more days on the river with these friends and friends to come. A special thanks goes to Paul Franklin and WaterWatch, on behalf of the group s fine efforts to keep rivers flowing in my native Oregon. I also extend kudos to Sloan Morris, Keith Carlson, and Doug Mateer, who ve helped put fly fishing to music in our band, Catch Release.
Finally, I want to extend a special thanks to my wife, Deidre, and my daughters, Cassidy and Annabel, who ve humored my absence on far too many occasions so I could pursue my favorite pastime and to my parents, who are not anglers, but always encouraged me to pursue my passions.
FOREWORD
Having spent my entire working life in the fly-fishing industry and the past twelve years happily immersed in international fly-fishing travel, I am one of the first to applaud works that highlight the pleasures of fishing new and sometimes distant waters. It is a broad field with an unfathomable number of venues and outfitters, not all of which are created equal. Sorting through these many options in search of the true gems is an ongoing process and a challenge I enjoy. In the same breath, I know that to do it well takes a lot of work and energy, making me all the more impressed when an author can take a topic of diversity and distil it into something as balanced, informative, and inspiring as Chris Santella s Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die. This man clearly did his homework.
Both fly fishing and travel demand a need for adventure, interest in the natural sciences, athleticism, and, above all else, an innate and irrepressible obsession for which there is no cure. When it comes to fly fishing in its purest form, and a discussion of the World s Greatest fishing destinations, there will never be consensus. There are no formulas, nor absolute truths. Instead, we face a myriad of subtle choices that, on rare occasions, combine with good fortune to create fishing scenarios so special we cannot help but consider them among the most exciting and pleasurable of our earthly experiences. Though anglers may not reach consensus on the perfect bucket list, this volume certainly offers something for everyone-from the choosy trout of Idaho s Silver Creek to Tasmania s fabled tarns, the less than particular giant trevally of the Seychelles Outer Atolls, and the giant rainbows of Argentina s Jurassic Lake.
For fly anglers, it is this hope of being in the right place at the right time that helps us through the motions of our daily grind, wakes us happily before dawn, and compels us to travel to the far corners of the globe. It is also the inspiration for this book, an impressive collection of dream trips, carefully selected to help all those with the burning drive to travel and fish make the most of their cherished time on the water.
-K EN M ORRISH , F LY W ATER T RAVEL

A fall angler on British Columbia s Sustut, where any cast could connect you with a supertanker steelhead.
INTRODUCTION

In 2003, I was fortunate enough to realize a lifelong dream-to have a chance to write a book. Better yet, it was to be a fly-fishing book, a topic dear to my heart, and it would be titled Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die. My thinking at the time was that this would be my one book-something every writer I know hopes to achieve-and that I d return to my marketing-consulting practice once it was done and have something neat to show my grandchildren (the book, that is).
Thanks largely to the book s beautiful design and to the wonderful angling insights the fifty individuals I interviewed provided, Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die was far more successful than anyone could have imagined. Not quit-my-day-job-and-buy-a-fishing-lodge successful, but successful enough that I was offered the opportunity to write another book and another book and another and now this, my tenth title- Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die -truly a labor of love!
At bookstore readings and fly-fishing club meetings, audience members often ask, Did you go to all of these fifty places, and if you did, how can I get that job? I must sadly answer no. While I have been fortunate enough to do a bit of angling travel (mostly around North America), the fifty places in this new book have been compiled by interviewing people from around the angling world and asking them to chat about an angling venue that s unique, a place that s dear to their heart, a place that well, that you need to fly fish before you go off to the great streams and flats of the hereafter. As a writer who often covers travel-oriented topics, I have the opportunity to visit frequently with many very well-traveled anglers, folks who have had a chance to experience the next big thing. A few such places certainly appear in this book (like the clear-flowing golden dorado rivers of Bolivia and the roosterfish beaches of Baja California), but there are also some old favorites that anglers have been returning to again and again for generations (Idaho s Silver Creek and New Brunswick s Miramichi, to name a few). Some venues