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James Prosek A Good Day's Fishing
SIMON & SCHUSTER 0689853270 / 9780689853272 Hardcover BOOK
James Prosek, best-selling author of "Trout" and "Fly-Fishing the 41st" , tells the story of a good day's fishing in this beautiful picture book, illustrated with the author's own gentle watercolors. A comprehensive glossary of lures & flies completes the package. Who wouldn't want to spend a good day's fishing with James Prosek? It's an experience that's sure to transform even a first timer into an expert. Ages 5-10; Full-color illus.; 10x8 inches, 40 pgs.
'INSIDE THE COVER:
What I need for a good day's fishing is in here somewhere....
What's the secret to a good day's fishing'
Bright sun.
Cool breeze.
Favorite rod and reel.
Tackle box with bobbers,
hooks, and sinkers.
But we haven't gotten
to the secret...yet.
James Prosek, best-selling author of "Trout" and "Fly-Fishing the 41st" , tells the story of a good day's fishing in this beautiful picture book, illustrated with the author's own gentle watercolors. A comprehensive glossary of lures & flies completes the package. Who wouldn't want to spend a good day's fishing with James Prosek' It's an experience that's sure to transform even a first timer into an expert.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
James Prosek is a leading expert on fly-fishing and a popular writer in that area. A Yale graduate, he began his writing career at age 20 with Trout: An Illustrated History. His other books include Joe & Me: An Education in Fishing & Friendship, The Complete Angler: A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton, Early Love & Brook Trout and Fly-Fishing the 41st: Around the World on the 41st Parallel. His articles on fishing frequently appear in the New York Times. Prosek was recently featured on a Peabody-winning fishing documentary on ESPN. He lives near a fishing pond in Weston, Connecticut.
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James Prosek Fly Fishing The 41st Parallel: From Connecticut To Mongolia And Home Again
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHING 0060555920 / 9780060555924 Paperback BOOK
Jame Prosek fishes the 41st parallel from his home in Weston, Connecticut, to the mine fields of the Balkans in this entertaining travelogue. 5.5x8 inches, 320 pgs.
'A journey of an angler, Fly-Fishing the 41st captures with words and colors the humanity and shared love of angling.
The New York Times has called James Prosek "the Audubon of the fishing world, " and in Fly-Fishing the 41st, he uses his talent for descriptive writing to illuminate an astonishing adventure. Beginning in his hometown of Weston, Connecticut, Prosek circumnavigates the globe along the 41st parallel, traveling through Spain, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Japan. Along the way he shares some of the best fishing in the world with a host of wonderfully eccentric and memorable characters. It contains some of the great cities and great fishing of the world and was the approximate median of the ancient trade route from China to Europe known as the silk road.
Throughout, he is at home on the water, continually meeting anglers of a variety of cultures. captures with words and colrs the humanity and shared love of angling.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"We are blessed that we have such an original and meticulous observer in James Prosek; he has taken us on an unforgettable journey." -- Thomas McGuane, author of The Cadence of Grass and The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
"Fresh, engaging, and intensely interesting. A joy to read." --Annie Proulx
'The famed fishing writer loops the planet along one of its most interesting latitudinal lines...a hit not only with sport fishermen but with anyone who likes to read a well-written adventure.'
--BookPage
'A hit.'
--BookPage
'Refreshing...Prosek's passion and earnest investigation more than make up for any absence of tall fish tales.'
--Publishers Weekly
'Prosek's enthusiasm for fish by no means blinds him to the charms and eccentricities of the places he goes.'
--Booklist
"Prosek recounts his explorations in passages notable for stunning slices of imagery that linger in the mind; it's not hard to close your eyes and see these faraway places in all their Old World beauty. Resonant & lyrical." --Kirkus Reviews
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Prosek is the author of Trout, Joe and Me, The Compleat Angler and Early Love and the Brook Trout. He is a graduate of Yale and lives in Weston, Connecticut. In preparation for his next book, he is currently fishing the 41st parrallel -- a trip that will start and end in Weston, and also take him straight around the world.
EXCERPT: Ile de la Cite and Paris Fishing
Papa, papa!" said little Marlin looking up towards his father.
"No, we cannot bring the fishing rods, " said Pierre. He hoisted Marlin onto his shoulders, and we walked under the drizzle to Pont Neuf and down to the Place du Vert Galant over wet cobbles to the tip Ile de la Cite.
"There are two islands in the river here in Paris, " Pierre explained, "Ile St. Louis and Ile de la Cite. These are the two best places to fish. When the river is in flood, the fish stack up in the eddy downstream of the island where the current is broken. There are probably five hundred bream here. They especially don't like current, and at times the big silure come to feed on them. You would not believe, but you will see! They open their giant mouths and eat a four-pound bream whole. While you were skiing, my friends Jean-Pierre and Guy hooked eight off Ile St. Louis. They landed one that was about thirty kilos and lost one they said would have been nearly fifty - that's over 110 pounds!"
West of where we stood was the metal bridge, the Passrail des Arts., on the left bank the Musee d'Orsay, on the right the Louvre. Downstream were Ile St. Louis and Notre Dame Cathedral, whose bells then indicated it was well into the afternoon.
"This is the most beautiful pool in the world, " Pierre said, passing Marlin to me as he climbed over a rail, "and the fishing gets better every year. The Seine was very polluted in the sixties and the only fish that lived here, if any, were carp and eel. Now there are thirty-eight species in downtown Paris. I only started catching silure two years ago, small ones. This is the first year we have caught such monsters."
"And you eat them'" I asked Pierre.
Pierre looked at me through his glasses, raising his gnomish nose and scratching his wavy hair. "Oh yes, we eat them, " he smiled as if to assure me that I would eat them too. "The Seine is clean; my friend Andre insists that in a year or two he will swim in it. The source of the river in Burgundy is a spring-fed trout stream. We will fish it in May and we hope to find a nice hatch of mayfly. Both Francois and Vincent have access to excellent trout fishing on the haute Seine."
"Did salmon ever run up the Seine'"
"Yes, of course, all the rivers draining to the Atlantic in France had salmon. The run in the Seine was magnificent. The last one caught in Paris was in 1956." Pierre stopped to carry Marlin up the steps to Pont Neuf again by the statue of Henry IV. "Well, who knows, " he continued, "maybe we will get one tomorrow morning. Maybe Guy and Jean-Pierre can join us. We'll fish until about nine in the morning, and then we must go and set up for the fly-fishing exhibition."
That night, I slept wrapped in a wool blanket on the floor of Pierre's office. At eight he knocked on the door, came in with his key, and woke me. "Well, we slept too late, " he said standing over me, "but that's ok, I think. We have a long day ahead." He looked at his watch. "Let's walk down to Ile St. Louis anyway, to see if Guy and Jean-Pierre caught anything. We'll leave the rods behind this morning."
Pierre and I walked along the Seine on the Quai des Orfevres to the facade of a newly renovated Notre Dame Cathedral, dim and ominous in the morning light. "They are wonderful fishermen, these guys, " Pierre told me of Guy and Jean-Pierre. "I met them four years ago fishing on Ile de la Cite. One of them had caught a ten-kilo zander. I couldn't believe it! So I started to follow them and fish with them and made a small film of their fishing. I gave Guy a cell pone to call me if they caught a big fish, and I would ride my bicycle down to the river with my camera. I got them sponsorships through American fishing tackle manufacturers, so they now have good free equipment. They mostly fish with worms and they are very skilled. It takes a great deal of skill to fish a worm correctly - as much as it does to fish a wet fly."
At this hour of the morning, Paris was quiet and the city belonged to the fisherman. The river was a beautiful eggshell brown and made the limestone facades of the city buildings seem a more luminous yellow and the zinc roofs a deeper gray. "They're out there, see'" Pierre said as we crossed Pont St. Louis to the Ile. The fisherman were two dark shapes on the tip of the island, standing with their lines in the water.
"'Jour, Pierre, " one said as we approached them. They had caught a bream and killed it. It lay bloodied on the cobbles. I shook each of their hands.
"Well, " said Pierre, looking into the opaque water, "if the bream are here the silure should be too." We stayed and watched them for a half an hour, but neither Guy nor Jean-Pierre had caught a fish, so we left to go set up booths at the fly-fishing exhibition.
Pierre and I were on Ile St. Louis the next morning with our lines in the water. Pierre fished with a worm and gave me a heavy rod rigged with a big lure for silure.
"I think Jean-Pierre and Guy are fishing at Neuilly, " he said. He picked up his cell phone and called Guy to get a report.
"What' Yes, Guy' Two bream, no silure. Okay. What' Vraiment' Okay, a tout a l'heure." Pierre put the phone in his pocket, laughing and shaking his head.
"Did they catch anything'"
"They caught two bream and Jean-Pierre hooked an ear."
"An ear'" I asked, thinking I'd heard wrong.
"Yes, apparently, " Pierre said, casting.
"You mean a human ear'"
"That's what he said, " Pierre said, casting.
"What did they do with it' Are they going to tell anybody'"
"What, and cause trouble' They are just fisherman."
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James Prosek Fly-fishing Pocket Pads
BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE
Exquisitely designed & portable pads provide an inspiring place to let creative thoughts flow with the oxbows & bends of a lazy river. Prosek delights nature lovers everywhere with his richly imagined watercolor paintings of freshwater trout. 4 journals; 3.5x5 inches, 72 pages each.
'Watercolors: Handsome products for the inspired fishing enthusiast. Internationally celebrated artist, bestselling author, and fly-fishing expert James Prosek - hailed as "the audubon of the fishing world" by the New York Times delights nature lovers everywhere with his richly imagined watercolor paintings of freshwater trout. Now Potter Style presents a sophisticated collection of products featuring Prosek's vibrant illustrations - just in time for both fishing season and Father's Day.
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James Prosek Joe And Me
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHING 0060537841 / 9780060537845 Paperback BOOK
A story of an unlikely friendship between two men: one old, one young. "Joe and Me" brims with both the enthusiasm of youth and the wisdom of experience. As Joe passes on his affection for nature to his eager young student, James's reflections are, in turn, intimate and expansive, inspirational and full of wonder. 20 color illus.; 6x9 inches, 204 pgs.
'Every lover of the outdoors will cherish this journal about a young man and the mentor who opens his heart to the spirit of nature -- from the celebrated twenty-two-year-old author of Trout: An Illustrated History.
When James Prosek was just fifteen, a ranger named Joe Haines caught him fishing without a permit in a stream near his home in Connecticut. But instead of taking off into the pouring rain like his fishing buddy, James put down his rod and surrendered. It was a move that would change his life forever. Expecting a small fine and a lecture, James instead received enough knowledge about fishing and the great outdoors to last a lifetime.
The story of this unlikely friendship between two men--one old, one young--Joe and Me is brimming with both the enthusiasm of youth and the wisdom of experience. As Joe passes on his affection for nature to his eager young student, James's reflections are, in turn, intimate and expansive, inspirational and full of wonder.
With twenty rugged and richly colorful illustrations in the style that first brought James critical acclaim, and graceful prose that belies an insightfulness far beyond his years, Joe and Me is a one-of-a-kind journal by a talent The New York Times has dubbed "a fair bid to become the Audubon of the fishing world."
REVIEWS
"[Joe and Me is] about what it means to be tried-and-true; about generosity, responsibility, humor, curiosity, appreciation; about having a warm heart and doing the right thing... Prosek describes for us a lost world of sportsfolk--relaxed, comradely, reflective, perceptive--from which he wisely decides to take his cues. " --Kirkus Reviews
"Mr. Prosek makes art of that friendship with Joe Haines in a charming memoir... In it he shows that he can paint with language as simply and refreshingly as he does with watercolors." --New York Times, 7/7/97
"This is a book without writerly tricks. Held in your hand it begins to feel like something from another era: Gentle, solid, uplifting and just a little sentimental... This book is a tribute to the binder's art. It is finely crafted, with an inlay cover and no dust jacket, and illustrated with 20 of Prosek's splendidly evocative paintings. The paper is heavy, thick, as if to acknowledge that fathers will be passing this along to their sons in tribute to a stylized America that always seems on the verge of disappearing." --Los Angeles Times, 6/8/97
"Prosek is a writer at once artful and natural, an original in literature even as he is in painting. Joe and Me incarnates again the values of Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Altogether, a beautiful and radiant book, a book for everyone. " --Harold Bloom
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Prosek is the author of Trout and Joe and Me. He is a graduate of Yale and lives in Weston Connecticut. In preparation for his next book, he is currently fishing the 41st parrallel--a trip that will start and end in Weston, and also take him straight around the world
EXCERPT
It's not like I had never done it before. In fact, poaching had almost become an art to me. I prided myself on being discreet and having successfully evaded the law for years. The Weston Reservoir, owned by the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company, is just a short walk from my home, and it was where I spent most afternoons fishing. Along with the Aspetuck and Saugatuck reservoirs, Weston was routinely patrolled by wardens whose job it was to keep anyone who was a threat to water quality off the property. That apparently meant anyone who even went near it.
At fifteen, the thought of getting caught breaking the law was both frightening and exhilarating. I was well aware of the danger of fishing illegally, and although I'd never been caught, I had mapped out every possible means of escape. Stone foundations, left from when the water company tore down old houses, would make ideal hiding places. The stone walls that crisscrossed the woods, remnants of farmers' attempts to rid the soil of rocks and keep their cows fenced in, would be good for ducking behind at the last minute. Large sycamores and sugar maples with low branches would be ideal for climbing if I felt that the best way to escape was up. I had found or cut trails in every direction, sought out undercut banks where I could crawl if I was trapped against the water, and even entertained the idea of swimming to the other side of the reservoir or to one of the two small islands in the middle if there was no alternative. But the danger of getting caught was only part of the attraction of fishing where I did. More than the thrill, it was the prospect of catching a large trout that kept me going back, and that same prospect led me from the familiar Weston Reservoir to the Aspetuck, where I found myself one afternoon standing on the lip of the dam, next to my friend Stephen, in the pouring rain.
We had run with our equipment through the woods, our ponchos trailing behind us like great green capes in the heavy April rain. Exposed to the road and bordered by a swamp, the dam was undoubtedly the worst possible place a poacher could find himself. I hesitated before moving into the open, crouching against the wind to tie a lure on my line.
Copyright ' 1997 by James Prosek
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James Prosek The Day My Mother Left
SIMON & SCHUSTER 141690770X / 9781416907701 Hardcover BOOK
When his mother leaves 9-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression & his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, & finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing. Ages 9-12. 5.5x8 inches, 304 pgs.
'Jeremy's whole life changed the day his mother left.
When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression & his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, & finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing.
In this novel, James Prosek tells Jeremy's story without blame, without self-pity, & without excuses. The Day My Mother Left should be read by anyone who has gone through the pain of losing a parent, & by anyone who wants to meet Jeremy, a boy who can see inside himself the person he wants to become.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
JAMES PROSEK is a leading expert on fly-fishing. He began his writing career at age 20 with Trout: An Illustrated History. His other books include Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship and Early Love of Brook Trout. His first venture into children's books, A Good Day's Fishing, was published in 2004.
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James Prosek The Day My Mother Left
SIMON & SCHUSTER 1416907718 / 9781416907718 Hardcover BOOK
When his mother leaves 9-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression & his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, & finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing. 5.5x8 inches, 304 pgs.
'Jeremy's whole life changed the day his mother left.
When his mother leaves with the father of his worst enemy at school, nine-year-old Jeremy seeks to make sense of her abandonment. He throws himself into recreating the Book of Birds, a collection of drawings that his mother took with her on the day she left. While his father fights his own depression & his sister distances herself from their lives, Jeremy turns wholeheartedly to nature, & finds solace in the quiet comfort of drawing.
In this novel, James Prosek tells Jeremy's story without blame, without self-pity, & without excuses. The Day My Mother Left should be read by anyone who has gone through the pain of losing a parent, & by anyone who wants to meet Jeremy, a boy who can see inside himself the person he wants to become.
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James Prosek, Illustrator, & Various Editors Tight Lines: Ten Years Of The Yale Anglers' Journal
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 0300126301 / 9780300126303 Hardcover BOOK
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Anthology presents a selection of 50 stories, recollections, essays, & poems featured in the Yale Anglers? Journal during its first remarkable decade. Accompanied by original artwork from James Prosek. Anyone who has felt a line pull tight, or is curious to know why the experience has inspired anglers throughout human history, will want to open the pages of this inviting book. 52 color illus; 9x6 inches, 264 pgs.
'Illustrated by James Prosek; Edited by Joseph Furia, Wyatt Golding, David Haltom, Steven Hayhurst, Joseph Kingsbery, and Alexis Surovov; With a Foreword by Nick Lyons; With a Preface by James Prosek and Joseph Furia
Since the first copy of the Yale Anglers' Journal appeared in 1996, readers with an interest in fish and fishing have opened the pages of each issue with anticipation and delight. YAJ's founders suspected that others would share their passion for literature and art related to angling; what they had not fully anticipated was the intensity of enthusiasm from readers and writers everywhere. Perhaps they shouldn't have been surprised. Statistics tell us that 35 million Americans regularly fish, and among their numbers are presidents and students, old and young, the famous and the unknown, the busy and the idle.
This anthology presents a selection of 50 stories, recollections, essays, and poems featured in the Yale Anglers' Journal during its first remarkable decade. Accompanied by original artwork from James Prosek, these writings all celebrate fish and the experience of fishing, yet they could hardly be more diverse. Some evoke a nostalgic earlier time, others vibrate with excitement, and still others offer a humorous view of life's surprises. The contributions come from well-known current writers, little-known newcomers, and even authors of antiquity, such as Homer, who had a thing to say about fishing. Anyone who has felt a line pull tight, or is curious to know why the experience has inspired anglers throughout human history, will want to open the pages of this inviting book.
EXCERPT:
'So here is where I came out as I entered my fiftieth year'.I believe in a balanced life. I do not want to fish all the time'.But I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go.''from 'Amare O Pescare,' by Howell Raines
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
James Prosek and Joseph Furia cofounded the Yale Anglers' Journal. Joseph Furia, Steven Hayhurst, Alexis Surovov, David Haltom, Wyatt Golding, and Joseph Kingsbery have served as editors of the journal.
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James Prosek Trout : An Illustrated History
BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE 067944453X / 9780679444534 Hardcover BOOK
No other book pictures all of the popular varieties, much less the rare, exotic, and in some cases extinct species, subspecies, and strains included in this comprehensive collection: Char; Mexican, Gila and Apache trout; rainbow, redband, and golden trout; cutthroat trout, brown trout and Atlantic salmon. Each of these, and many more, are captured in vivid watercolors, along with engaging, informative descriptions of their evolution and habitat. More than 70 original watercolor illustrations; 10x7 inches, 192 pgs.
'Having developed a passion for fishing as a boy, James Prosek searched in vain for a book that catalogued the trout he had come to treasure. Then he began painting them himself, inspired by John James Audubon's classic bird portraits. This is the dazzlingly beautiful result, with more than seventy original watercolors by a true prodigy--only twenty years old and already considered "a fair bid to become the Audubon of the fishing world" (The New York Times).
The trout of North America range from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the Arctic Circle to the Tropic of Cancer. No other book pictures all of the popular varieties, much less the rare, exotic, and in some cases extinct species, subspecies, and strains included in this comprehensive collection. Char; Apache, Gila, and Mexican trout; rainbow, redband, and golden trout; cutthroat trout; brown trout and Atlantic salmon--each of these, and many more, are captured in vivid watercolors, along with engaging, informative descriptions of their evolution and habitats.
With youthful passion and stunning accuracy, James Prosek celebrates as never before the indelicble beauty and variety of the trout, and makes an eloquent plea for its preservation. An unprecedented reference, Trout is essential for the serious angler--and a glorious introduction for anyone who loves fishing and the outdoors.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Prosek grew up in Weston, Connecticut.
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