Tight Lines: Ten Years of the Yale Anglers' Journal Book

Contents
FOREWORD BY NICK LYONS....................viii
PREFACE BY JAMES PROSEK AND JOSEPH FURIA....................x
PART I-Backcasts Skip Morris PILGRIMAGE TO HAIG-BROWN....................3
Jimmy Carter FISHING WITH MY DADDY....................9
Dane Barca GREAT UNCLE....................13
Ivan Kerbel RIVERINE....................15
Benjamin Green ON ALMOST DROWNING....................18
Christine Hemp BIRTH OF AN ANGLER....................21
Dana S. Lamb ALL IS NOT GOLD....................25
Dana S. Lamb STARTING OUT....................28
Thomas Robert Barnes WINTER KILL AND OTHER POEMS....................31
Scott Bowen THE LOST STRIPER....................37
James Prosek NO TRESPASSING....................42
PART II-The Great Pool Keith Fryer CROCODILE CENTRAL....................50
Elliot L. Richardson THE GRAYLING AND THE BELL CURVE....................62
Ed Migdalski PANIC ON THE BANKS OF THE GRIMSA....................65
Richard Kenneth Stoll A TALE OF TALAU....................67
Abu Faruk THE COMPANION....................77
Daniel Stranahan AN EARLY WINTER....................83
Aaron Alter NIOKOLO KOBA....................92
Peter Fong SCRATCHING THE SURFACE, IN BORNEO....................96
PART III-Whatever Rises Ron McFarland THE ART OF FLY-FISHING AND THE AESTHETICS OF SOLITUDE....................105
Susan Borden SEA MONSTERS....................110
Taylor Kitchings MR. PINKY GONE FISHIN'....................115
John Struloeff THE FISH GARDEN....................124
Robert Tisdale AT HOME IN THE MIDWEST....................134
Cale Van Velkinburgh FEAR AND LOATHING ... IN ALCOVA,WYOMING....................135
Jimmy Hodges HOOKED CLANDESTINELY....................145
Mark Spitzer GITTIN' MYSELF A GARFISH....................149
Greg Keeler TO A FATHER LONG GONE....................155
Scott Bowen THE GRAND SLAM....................157
PART IV-Landing Net Homer, Translated by Robert Fitzgerald THE ODYSSEY, BOOK XII, LINES 294-305....................173
Tim Weed JETTIES....................174
William Butler Yeats SELECTIONS FROM YEATS....................179
John Hollander THE ANGLER'S STORY....................182
James Rossbach CLOSING DAY....................183
Jim Murphy RE-LAX-NESS....................185
John E. Smelcer LATE SEPTEMBER ON THE RUSSIAN RIVER....................187
PART V-A Necessary Passion Howell Raines AMARE O PESCARE....................191
Ernest Schwiebert A FISHING TALK GIVEN AT YALE....................203
Thomas Robert Barnes SOUL TO SOUL....................210
Elaine Bleakney IN TWO DAYS THE LEAVES WILL COAT....................213
Juaquín Hernàndez Canegato SALUDA PROBABILITY....................214
Robert Behnke RUMMAGING THROUGH THE BASEMENT FINDING PISCATORIAL AUDUBONS....................217
R. Howard Bloch MARCEL PROUST AND THE ART OF FLY-FISHING....................222
PART VI-Hook, Line, and Sinker Steven Rinella JEALOUS FISHERMAN BARES SOUL....................229
Dennis Sipe FLY-FISHING WITH JESUS....................232
Christopher Buckley THE NEW FLY-FISHING BOOKS....................234
Peter Just THE GAON OF BOZEMAN....................237
M.J. Trease ANOTHER POEM FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS....................239
ABOUT THE AUTHORS....................240