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Blitz cat goes fishing11/11/2022 ![]() ![]() This definitely is not a book that celebrates the more contemplative aspects of fly fishing, but then the title gives that away. ![]() Sometimes the book sounds like it’s profiling jet-skiing big-shots, motocross competitors, or even Bassmaster champs. ![]() There are lots of hero shots as well.Īs for the writing, the tone is aggressive and rambunctious, in an exhilarating, X-Games kind of way. (Something tells me that many of the anglers profiled in the book may not have one in that case, a tying bench will do.) The most exhilarating photos, to me, are the pictures of breaching bluefin tuna. Given all the great photos, this would make a nice coffee-table book, assuming that you have a coffee table. The clear emphasis is striped bass, which makes sense-after all, nobody ever made a weakfish-taper fly line, and most folks don’t have the inclination or wherewithal to chase bluefins offshore.Ĭircling the book via dust jacket stokes the appetite for stellar photography, and The Blitz delivers. (These, among the others profiled, would be the people to look up if you wanted a guided trip somewhere on the Atlantic coast.) There are fascinating mini-bios of some of those fishermen, including Bob Popovics, Eric Wallace, Dave Skok, Jim Ellis, Jaime Boyle, Shawn Bristow, John McMurray, Chris Newsome, and many others. The book is an extended photo-essay that follows the Maine-to-North Carolina migration of certain Atlantic Ocean gamefish-striped bass, bluefish, bonito, false albacore, bluefin tuna, weakfish, and redfish-and the anglers obsessed by them. The book’s focus, naturally, is on those moments when predators, baitfish, birds, and angler converge. I had the benefit of reading the subtitle, so I was pretty sure that it wasn’t going to be a history of the WWII Blitz or, for that matter, a nostalgic nod to the Blitz-Weinhard brewery’s late great Blitz beer.Įvery Northeastern fly fisherman who plies the salt craves the late-season, predatory occurrences of blitzing gamefish, and this book provides them a racy and almost lewd sketch of how good the fishing can be on the Atlantic coast. A WWII-BUFF FRIEND of mine, who doesn’t fish, bought this book sight unseen and was disappointed to discover that it doesn’t even mention the Luftwaffe’s 1940-1941 bombing of Britain. ![]()
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