Fishing and Other Follies

It was 1978, when Charles Thacher received an unexpected gift of a fly-fishing outfit from his wife Ann. He knew nothing about fly-fishing, and never suspected that the gift would change his life forever. In an entertaining collection of stories involving angling, Thacher describes adventures traveling the world with rod in hand, as well as many fascinating characters whom he has met. The book is not a manual about how to fish, but you will learn much about why you should want to go fishing in the first place, and some wonderful places to go. In this eclectic book, the author also explores fishing literature and describes his quest to build one of America's great angling libraries. The final section is for the intrepid angler who enjoys fishing on their own or with a friend. Relying on the Author's personal experiences travelling to Argentina to fish without a guide over 20 times, it provides meticulous directions, so that anyone with a vehicle and map can find and fish over 20 of the most famous or remote rivers of that popular and fascinating country. Fishing and Other Follies is an entertaining volume of stories that chronicle an ardent angler's pursuit of fish, only to discover that there is much more to fishing than the catching