On Fishing. Brian Clarke

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      SOMETIMES, when sitting out there by the river alone, especially at dusk, I begin to fold into myself and my thoughts. Then even thinking fades away. I seem to liquefy, to melt into the physical world shawled about me, to dissolve into the water’s curlings and slidings, its soft easings and crinklings, its twiddling little vortices and its washes of light. I go, though not consciously, to some other place.

      Later, as if unprompted, the world takes form again, sounds separate and become distinct again and I look at my watch. Ten minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour. I do not know where I have been, but it has been somewhere deep down and I suspect far back, perhaps near that place where everything began.

      Wherever that place is, I go there gladly. It is somewhere deep-healing and it makes me whole. It is to that place and space that I dedicate this book: to that place where the physical passes through me like ether – and to fishing, which magics me there.

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

Introduction

One Long Morning

Which Fly, When

A Second-hand Book

A Shattered Dream

Wildlife, the Media and Us

All You Need to Know

Arthur Ransome

Coarse Fish on the Move

Buying Tackle

Dry Fly, Wet Fly, Nymph

Fun in the Grass

Arthur Oglesby

The Weakest Link

Always and Never

Barbless Hooks

Bernard Venables

       The Power of the Close-up

       Best Day, Worst Day

       Big Noreen

       Brain-boxes on Fins?

       Frank Sawyer and Oliver Kite

       The Man Who Dressed as a Tree

       A Definition of the Impossible

       The Beatrix Potter Syndrome

       Fishing at Night

       Flies, Hooks and Leaders

       The Lady Gives it a Go

       Fred Buller

       Getting Stocking Levels Right

       Stalking Fish on Lakes

       Giving Logic a Chance

       Chub, Dace, Roach, Barbel

       Halford and the Dry Fly

       John Goddard

       Just Going Fishing

       Life and Death in the Arctic

       A Perfect Day

       Making Fishing Too Easy

       Morality Tale

       Size and Relative Size

       Reet Queer Trout

       My Way with Carp

       Need, СКАЧАТЬ