Retail Price: $44.95 |
ARTHUR SHILSTONE LIFETIME OF DRAWING & PAINTING Arthur Shilstone
Synopsis: Arthur Shilstone, A Lifetime of Drawing and Painting reviews the career of one of America’s best-known and most highly regarded sporting artists. Shilstone came of age following the second World War and continues to paint in his Connecticut studio today. The book features more than 150 images of sporting art, including hunting and fly fishing, as well as examples of the artist’s earlier formative work as a professional magazine illustrator, and, before that, illustrations created during his war service in Europe. Full color, 160 pgs. |
Retail Price: $59.95 |
BENT ESSAYS AND IMAGES Jeff Mishler
Synopsis: Culture can be found in any pastime. This is a window into the culture of fly fishing, proving that passion indeed creates community. By the year 2015, writer, photographer and filmmaker Jeff Mishler, known in the world of fly fishing as the producer of the popular Skagit Master DVD series, had spent over forty five years chasing critters with a fly rod, shotgun, rifle and bow. This book presents images taken on four continents and stories collected from some of those fishing adventures. 8.5x11 inches, 144 pgs. SOLD OUT |
Retail Price: $34.95 |
THE DOMESDAY BOOK OF GIANT SALMON VOLUME 2 Fred Buller
Synopsis: In this new second volume, Buller collects the tales of capture of yet more Atlantic salmon over 50lb caught in Europe & North America, including those caught on the fly, by rod, or by other means. Each capture is carefully researched & examined for veracity, & confusions dismembered. All the case histories feature original photographs where available of the catches, their locations, the fishermen, and irreplaceable artefacts; along with snippets of fascinating background information. Much of the book is a testament to a world that has almost disappeared - of great catches and huge fish taken on legendary rivers: the Grand Cascapedia, Restigouche, Tay, Alten, Namsen and Vosso in their heyday between 1880 and 1930. It is a work of loving dedication and a deserving tribute to the king of fish, which will fascinate anglers of every persuasion. 11x8 inches, 192 pgs. |
Retail Price: $75.00 |
THE FINE ART OF ANGLING: TEN MODERN MASTERS Diane K Inman
Synopsis: Over 100 angling images by ten of America's finest sporting artists: Shirley Cleary, Rod Crossman, Thomas Aquinas Daly, Luke Frazier, Eldridge Hardie, Chet Reneson, Arthur Shilstone, Brett Smith, Mike Stidham and John Swan. Full-color; 10x12 inches, 216 pgs. |
Retail Price: $100.00 |
FLY FISHING IN CHILEAN PATAGONIA Gonzalo Cortes
Synopsis: Presents the best fly fishing destinations in stunning photos and bilungual text. The Chilean Patagonia is one of the few regions left in the world that still allows fly fishing in peace and tranquility, accompanied soley by the majestic landscape and countless lakes and rivers ideal for fly fishing. Stunning photos, full color 10x12.5 inches, 194 pgs |
Retail Price: $75.00 |
WATER MUSIC: OF SALMON, SAABS, & SPEY RODS David Swanson
Synopsis: Swanson, American photojournalist, gives endearing account of Norway & its Salmon fishing experienced by a young, gifted writer. Lively, fresh, original. High quality photos by author. Each book is signed. Hinged, clamshell box will fully enclose book. Hand-colored art, B/w photos; David travels and fishes through Norway’s pristine landscape with his friend and guid Truls Ronning, and together with a gleaming new Saab 9-3, they cover most of the pools and riverbanks holding both newly-arrived salmon from the North Sea and an international mix of anglers and characters you won’t forget. 6x9 inches, 124 pgs. |
Retail Price: $49.95 |
BLACK GHOSTS AND ART IN A MAINE GUIDE'S WILDERNESS Graydon Hilyard & Leslie Hilyard
Synopsis: Herb Welch, the inventor of the still popular streamer pattern, the Black Ghost, is Maine’s first and only celebrity guide to gain international status. With over 200 images including archival black and white and color images by photographer John Swan, this book documents the incredible life and work of a man that excelled in art, sculpture, taxidermy (he was the premiere fish taxidermist of his day), demonstration fly casting at major North American venues, and guiding. In addition, the Hilyards include never before published streamer patterns from the Rangeley region, including nine named streamers originated/adapted and tied by Herbert Welch. 8.8x11.3 inches, 200 pgs. |
Retail Price: $27.95 |
ART OF THE FISHING FLY Tony Lolli
Synopsis: For the millions of fly fishers who are passionate about their sport, this gorgeous book is both a visual feast and the perfect reference. The Art of the Fishing Fly includes a history of fly fishing focusing on the evolution of fishing flies; a guide to essential equipment; a how-to section on tying three key flies by three top fly tyers; and essays by noted experts. The book’s core includes 75 profiles of flies—the soul of the sport—with absolutely stunning color photographs of each fly and fascinating stories behind the flies, inspirational photographs of fly fishers in action, and profiles of the top 19 fly fishing locations around the world. All color, 8.5x9.5 inches, 240 pgs. |
Retail Price: $60.00 |
PETER CORBIN: AN ARTIST'S CREEL Tom Davis
Synopsis: Corbin is a modern renaissance artist. This 1st of its kind monograph includes his unique sporting portraits that capture the individual certainly, but also the life & passion within the man. A nationally recognized wildlife artist, Peter Corbin has been celebrated for his fishing & hunting oil paintings, pencil drawings & limited edition prints. Intro by John Merwin.60 1/2tones, 140 color illus; 11x12 inches, 204 pgs. |
Retail Price: $65.00 |
THE SPORTING ART OF FRANK W. BENSON Faith Andrews Bedford
Synopsis: A pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement, Benson's portraits & plein-air canvases won him an enthusiastic following. But is was the outdoor life & sporting subjects that remained his lifelong passion. He portrayed birds beloved since childhood, scenes of his hunting & fishing expeditions, & still lives of incomparable delicacy. Benson conveys the joy, beauty, & satisfaction of a life lived to the fullest in the out-of-doors. This book displays the best of his work, full of his watercolors, oils, etchings, & drawings. Color & B/w illus; 11x 10 inches, 276 pgs. Sold Out |
Retail Price: $24.95 |
FIFTY PLACES TO FLY FISH BEFORE YOU DIE Chris Santella Synopsis: Maps out the meccas of the flyfishing world, including natural history, anecdotes, & fish tales about each site. Vicariously cast mouse patterns to 50-pound taimen in the wilds of mongolia, wrangle with wily permit off the Florida Keys, & match the hatch on Montana's Armstrong's Spring Creek, Jardines de la Reina, Cuba (tarpon), the Zhupanova River, Kamchatka (rainbow trout), & the Rio Negro, Brazil (peacock bass) are also included. Provides adventurous anglers with enough travel-&-tackle info so that you, too, can start planning excursions to go fish around the globe. 40 full-color photos; 7x8 inches, 224 pgs. |
Retail Price: $30.00 |
THE STORY OF A SALMON FLYDRESSER Derek Mills and Jimmy Younger
Synopsis: Megan Boyd is considered to be one of the world's finest salmon fly tyers and she is the subject of the US film 'Kiss the Water'.
She was born in 1915, and was bought up in the Highlands of Scotland where her father was a bailiff on the River Brora.
She began taking flytying lessons at the age of twelve and soon gained a reputation for tying beautiful feather-wing flies which were extra-ordinarily durable and lasted many seasons. In 1935, at the age of twenty, Megan left home and moved into a small cottage near Brora where she lived without electricity or running water until the 1980s. Visiting anglers from all over the world who came to fish the Highland rivers for salmon would stop by her cottage to watch her tie flies and place orders. 5.5x8.5 inches, 128 pgs. |
$75.00 |
THE LIFE AND ART OF ARCHIE BOYD TEATER Lester D. Taylor
Synopsis: This volume features a detailed biography of the artist, an analysis of his work and reproductions of more than two hundred of his paintings. Included is work from all periods of Teater's life and in all of his motifs. The first comprehensive monograph on impressionistic western landscape artist Archie Boyd Teater (1901-1978), especially as they relate to Idaho, the Grand Tetons, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, but also including representative selections from his "International Collection". 200 color photographs; 12x12 inches; 256 pgs |
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