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Whether you chase the big browns or feisty rainbows of the high country and lakes, the dusky flathead in the estuaries, bass in the rivers or tackle-breaking hoodlum kingfish, this is the book for you. Les Hawkins has collected some of the most evocative accounts of fly fishing, stories that will make fisherpeople, professional and amateur, gather their tackle boxes and head for the water. Great Australian Fly-Fishing Stories will appeal to anyone with a sense of adventure and a love of the great outdoors.
The is book is written in appreciation of the many joys and quiet contentment that I have found in my wanderings by river and lake. These words were penned by the legendary Australian author David Scholes. It would be hard to find a better way to introduce a collection of fi shing adventures, because fi fty years of waving the slender rod have given me abundant pleasure, copious exercise both physically and mentally, wonderful & lasting friendships and the enjoyment of being at one with nature. On refl ection, it seems that centuries ago a good friend and skilled fl y fi sherman introduced me to what became a pastime, perhaps an art, certainly a physical exercise, a method of spending the fa...
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