Reviews for If Fish Could Scream: An Angler's Search for the Future of Fly Fishing

The average rating for If Fish Could Scream: An Angler's Search for the Future of Fly Fishing based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-06-12 00:00:00 Bonny Schwank I'm not a fly-fisher, but I found this to be an accessible, informative overview of the sport. It covered not only the history of fly fishing but also topics like the damming of North American Rivers, local celebrity culture, and fish physiology ("do fish feel pain?"). Recommended for the fly-curious.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-08-22 00:00:00 Rob Bernhart For anyone enamored of fishing, heck, for any soul with an affinity to the woods, rivers or damn good writin', this book's worth perusing. Author James R. Babb may well have experienced more stream-side - or better yet, in the stream, adventures than anyone alive. (Or he's probably in the top ten.) And whatever his reservoir of tales, no fisher, at all, can carry a story like Mr. Babb. If you can visualize hurtling a fly along some tree-dappled brook along with Mark Twain, Henry Thoreau and Stephen Colbert. Great fun and even uplifting, eh? Well, that's comparable to reading each distinct story in Crosscurrents. Simply put, if you like crackling prose, erudition without pretension and the search for native brook trout (mostly) from Tennessee to Maine, with a few indelible characters and a creek full of chuckles, check it out. In a word, impressive. One may even want to learn a new skill, fly-fishing. Babb's quirky spirit can come along, too.