Beloved Waters: For Steelhead and Salmon; Bonefish and Tarpon

By Paul Ford

Beloved Waters is about the unforgettable where fantasy is transformed by magic to reality. It is of tidal water and rivers, fish and fishers. You will wade a small tidal flow in foggy silence where chinook and coho of incredible strength come to the fly. You will see a lithe, silver ballerina dance white-capped Stilliaguamish riffle water, and ferocious Dean River steelhead destroy a fisher's bragged-on new fly reel. You will smile as an angler on Isla Holbox off the Yucatan hooks a giant tarpon without so much as a cast. You will encounter the charge of a giant trevally and hear the guide intone, Better he take bonefish than come eat us. And always within beloved waters, as with life itself, you will be touched by the uncertainty of certainty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571882995
• ISBN13: 9781571882998
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Memorable Fly Fishing Memoir

Paul Ford's Beloved Waters is a fine example of fireside reading, one of those books an outdoor enthusiast stretches out with at the end of a long day outside or during the dull days of a long, cold winter. Ford takes the reader to the northwest and the tropics, fishes for steelhead and tarpon, and tells some great stories in the poetic process. At the end of the second chapter -- "My Stilly" -- Ford writes: "There is poetry in this place." There is indeed poetry in the prose of Beloved Waters, and excellent b & w illustrations by Jerry Ellis. Many anglers these days catch and release their fish, but this book of fish stories is a keeper!