Late in an Angler's Life: Essays on the Sport Book

	Induction	1
	Notice	3
	December 1999	6
	Of Girlfriends, Grasshoppers, and New York	9
	Saint Patrick's Day, 2003	13
	Fortune-telling	16
	In Autumn Leaves	19
	A Silhouette	21
	The New Adventurers and Me	26
	A Portrait of the New Fly Fisher	31
	The Yellow Primrose	39
	The Silver Salver	41
	In a New Jersey Garden: Forsythian Parabolas	45
	His Brain	50
	A Fly Line Tangled	53
	The Rise of the Crafts	55
	Remembering Trout Fishing in America	61
	On Don Quixote, Adventure, and Getting Wet for Trout	67
	Angling and the Class Struggle	75
	CEOs and Fly Fishing	86
	It's Only Fly Fishing	92
	Nativism: The Call for Species Cleansing	95
	Solitude	102
	Caves, Hunters, Paintings, and Reality	107
	Yes, but Is It Art?	110
	The Quality of Angling	113
	Where Are the Flies of Yesteryear?	118
	Exclusively Flies?	131
	Toward a Big Six of Great Patterns	135
	From Henhouse to Fly Shop	140
	"Oh, We'll Kill the Old Red Rooster When She Comes"	144
	Those Damned Leaders	148
	Fly Book/Fly Box	151
	Confessing Heresy	153
	Spinning	159
	Of Cane Poles and Bare Feet	164
	Propinquity	169
	The Brown Trout	172
	Gulls and Guts	174
	The Other Salmon and MacGuffinism	179
	Hickories and Herrings	184
	The Natural Corral	189