The fish's eye : essays about angling and the outdoors
Ian Frazier (Author)
In The Fish's Eye, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world. He sees the angler's environment all around him -- in New York's Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida Keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains. He marvels at the fishing in the turbid Ohio River by downtown Cincinnati, where a good bait for catfish is half a White Castle French fry. The incidentals of the angling experience, the who and the where of it, interest him as much as what he catches and how. The essays contain observations of the American outdoors, a place filled with human alterations and detritus that somehow remain defiantly unruined
Essay
163 pages ; 21 cm
9780312421694, 0312421699
54396596
Anglers
Harlem and Hudson
An angler at heart
On the Ausable
On urban shores
Fishing without Dad
Big fish, little fish
It's hard to eat just one
In the brain
A lovely sort of lower purpose
Guiding guys
Fishing in town
From wilderness to Wal-Mart
Bad advice
Catching monsters after dark
The great outdoors
Five fish