Need a Good Book

If you've never read it, YOU MUST READ

     THE RIVER WHY

By David James Duncan

From the title you can tell it's more about river fishing than most of our kayak fishing sites. Especially if you are a fly fisherman, or if you know any fly fishing folk, you'll appreciate some of the sly humor  throughout the book. But the first chapter was so hilarious and captivating that it became one of those books I couldn't put down. Oh, it's not just about fly fishing, the wonderful lovely love interest is a bait fishing young woman with a "unique" style of landing a big steelhead, somewhere around the middle of the book.

Not to be missed. You should read it before the movie comes out later this year. Outside Magazine had a recent article about the making of the movie, and it sounds like a winner. Just read it.

Andy

"The Angler's Coast" by Russ Chathum is a great book on the local coastal streams. It's about flyfishing for salmon and steelies from the Russian to the Chetco. Used to fish with a few of the renowned anglers in that book. The early pioneers of flyfishing for salmon.

I read "The River Why".
I read "Blue Water Gold Rush".
Both very good books....BUT....The book I just could not put down
is called "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson.
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-Adventure-Americans-Everything/dp/0345482476/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1234619875&sr=1-1
From the cover:
"The true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II."
"An engrossing saga of the suspenseful, intriguing, and dangerous underwater investigation of a mystery U-boat."

These guys literally re-wrote history.

That sounds interesting. Weren't there literally only about half a dozen Akitas left after WWII? Sorry for the threadjack, Eric.

So the book says. That was what drove the guy to devote his life to keeping the breed alive. Like I said, if you are into dogs or are interested in post ww2 japanese history, it's a good read.

The books written by Linda something (she was the female swordboat captain in "the perfect storm") are good fishing related books too. I can't recall the titles, but one was about lobster fishing & the other just about being a woman swordboat captain.

The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw. Not a bad book and a quick read. Currently reading Generation Kill by Evan Wright. Nothing to do with fishing, but a good read so far.

If I were to recommend one, it would be The Sea-Wolf by Jack London.

like tote said, "shadow divers" is an excellent read about salvage/shipwreck divers. "highliners" is another great book about commercial fishermen in alaska. "freediving and bluewater hunting" by terry maas is a must-read book if you do any free-diving.

"freediving and bluewater hunting" by terry maas is a must-read book if you do any free-diving.

Yep, own that one too.

I second The Angler's Coast, if you can find it.
Other good reads: The Moon Pulled Up An Acre Of Bass by Peter Kiminsky
                          Flyfishing Through The Midlife Crisis by Howell Raines
                          Totem Samon by Freeman House
                           On The Run by David DiBenedetto

All these are non-fiction. I'm going to look up The River Why.
BTW, how does one underline titles when writitng here?

I read the River Why about 15 years ago. I forgot all about that book. Awesome. If you want something different try. Trout fishing in America by James Brautigan. True North  by Jim Harrison is about the upper peninsula of Lake Superior. Family tragedy and trout fishing. I Heard the Owl Call My Name is another short but good book to read.

California currents : an exploration of the ocean's pleasures, mysteries, and dilemmas / Marie De Santis

This is a good, smart book by a woman who has a lot of fishing experience. It's out of print and kind of pricey to buy used (around $50) but it is available at the San Jose Public Library.

Gerry

Perfect Storm or my all time favorite Shadow Divers.

-Eric

Just got "The Angler's Coast" on Friday as a gift on my last day with the Russian coho program.  Can't wait to read all the old stories about the Russian River and to hear mid-70's thoughts on the state of the fisheries.  Tons of cool pictures though!

I don't know about you guys, but I enjoy crappy weather fishing. You get things like these go come out and play.

Not a book but an interesting site that will take up some of this bad weather time.  I've seen crabs and what looked like Halibut. Anyway check it out... http://www.teamorca.org/eyeinthesea.htm

I second the book, Last of the Blue Water Hunters.  It's a quick read.  I gave my copy to a fellow yaker I met on the beach one day. 
Picsean (sp) My current read is Shutzhund Training by Paterson.

Anything by Farley Mowat ....canadian writer .... wonderful.

No Man's River
Never Cry Wolf
People of the Deer

One of the one's I liked most that seems to be lowest on everyone else's list is his book titled "The Far Farers"    ---in this book he supports an original hypothesis with (I found) convincing evidence that The Vikings didn't "discover" Iceland and Greenland.   What actually happened, according to Mowat, was that in the year 800 the Vikings came along and killed all the early inhabitants, which he called "Albans"  (skin-boat immigrants from ancient England, which at the time was called Alba) ......then the Vikings re-wrote history (which is customary for all victors to do).

Mowat wrote a-book-a-year....or just about.
I've read many of them and liked every single one.
Mowat is totally a HANDS-ON guy....he's done everything he writes about.

Judd

PS.....about four post-ers have recommended SHADOW DIVERS.
I do too.   An exciting well-told story of high-risk "old wreck" diving done at
ferocious depths.  If you haven't read it....well....you need to do yourself a favor.
And I don't even dive.