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 Author Name: Ken Marsh
Title: BREAKFAST AT TROUT'S PLACE: SEASONS OF AN ALASKA FLYFISHER
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: JOHNSON BOOKS
ISBN Number: 1555662471 / 9781555662479
Seller ID: 1028311
Through stories, understand what it is like to live & flyfish in Alaska, year-round. Join Ken with crazy, interesting friends through the seasons Float tubing for grayling, pursuing prehistoric pike, plus trout & salmon. 5x8 inches, 192 pgs.
'Ken Marsh will take you on a flyfishing adventure as only a native who has lived and flyfished his entire life in Alaska can. you won't find a catered, cozy flyfishing camp with protective, professional guides in these stories. Instead, you'll join Ken and his sometimes crazy, always interesting friends as they flyfish through the seasons in the real Alaska. Through it all, they're on a search for solitude, for the untrammeled, and for a place where angler and fish can meet in one moment that can't be taken back or forgotten. it's the same search all flyfishers are on, but the scale is, like the state itself, much grander than most of the Lower Forty-eight.
PRAISE FOR TROUT'S PLACE
'Marsh has the poet's ear for tone, rhythm, sibilance and internal rhyme. ' But journeyman wordsmith that he may be, it is ultimately Marsh's infectious good nature that carries the book.' 'Anchorage Daily News
'The writing is very descriptive, yet hits a nice pace that lets the reader enjoy the words, and envision the descriptions at a leisurely pace.' 'The Reel News
'In a sense, to think of Ken Marsh's new book as a collection of flyfishing stories is to do it an injustice. Of course there are plenty of flies and plenty of fish, but Marsh's scope is far grander. The true subject of Breakfast at Trout's Place is Alaska, and in Marsh's hands fly rods become instruments for exploring the mystery and allure of the Far North as no one has managed to before. The result of Marsh's totally captivating voyage of discovery is one of the most thoughtful studies of this enigmatic region ever to appear in print.' 'E. Donnall Thomas, Jr., author of Whitefish Can't Jump and Dream Fish and Road Trips
'Knowledge and writing skills don't always go hand-in-hand, but in Breakfast at Trout's Place they meet perfectly. Ken Marsh grew up in Alaska, so he knows what he's talking about, and his writing will put you there, among the trout and salmon and bears who inhabit wild Alaska.' 'John Barsness, author of Montana Time and Western Skies
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ken Marsh is the former outdoor editor, managing editor, and editor-in-chief of Alaska magazine, where he also created the award-winning 'Hindsight' column.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword'ix
Acknowledgments'xi
Introduction'1
Spring
Desperate Measures'11
Marsh Madness'15
Gulf Coast Secrets'25
Deep South'33
The First Fish'45
Breakup at Shady Lake'55
The Season of Trout Dancing'59
Summer
Discovering South Fork'69
Summer Nights'81
Russian River Stones'85
Dinosaur Fish'97
One Enchanted Evening'107
Little Mysteries'111
A Road Runs Through It'119
Bloody Knuckles'129
Goldenfins'143
Alaska's Fish'147
Stream Maggots'155
Fall
North Fork'161
River of Questions'167
Three Rivers'171
Just Before Winter'187
October Wind'193
Winter
Fishing the Black Hole'199
A Perfect World'203
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