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Being, Nothingness, and Fly Fishing: How One Man Gave Up Everything to Fish the Fabled Waters of the West
Being Nothingness and Fly Fishing How One Man Gave Up Everything to Fish the Fabled Waters of the West Author:Michael Checchio For Michael Checchio, fly fishing has been a process of refinement and personal introspection, a journey that included dropping everything and moving to the West to fly fish - particularly the North Umpqua for steelhead. In humorous and beautiful prose, Checchio recounts his years as a novice and self-taught New Jersey fly fisherman, and how he... more » set out to find the hallowed trout-fishing Meccas of the Rocky Mountain West. Along the way we meet iconoclasts, wildlife, and the breathtaking landscapes of fly fishing's most fabled Western rivers, and at journey's end is the West Coast, and the pursuit of the beautiful and elusive steelhead. (5 3/4 x 8 1/2, 226 pages)« less