The Fly Rod Chronicles - A Collection of Essays on the Quiet Sport of Fly Fishing

By Richard Landerman

Author Richard Landerman takes random, everyday musings and weaves them together with humor and substance using the common thread of fly fishing. His candid ruminations over such topics as life,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977202526
• ISBN13: 9780977202522
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Richard Landerman
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Smiling while Wet!

I truly enjoyed Richard Landerman's book on growing up with core values and learning to fish when he was young, on having a drive in life that makes you smile inside, and can set things right when they seem all wrong. If you have never stood in a flowing stream and felt the tug of a hooked Trout, and never set the beautiful fish free once you have fought and landed it, you just don't understand this special book. Landerman does a great job of capturing the serenity and pleasure of giving your life over to tiny artificial flies and wading boots, to old hats and funny-looking vests, and the knowing smiles of chums who share this sport. He made me smile many times as I read his essays on a childhood spent in Northern California, on the thrill of watching a rise occur near your fly, and calmness that comes with this lifelong sport. Trying to explain "Catch and Release" fly fishing to someone who doesn't know the ideals of this form of self-preservation; the concept of giving back to society and assuring the fish are there you next time you show up... is like trying to help someone understand why a grandchild's call for "Pop-Pop" is so special...If you don't get it, you just don't get it! Great book and an easy, pleasurable read.

More than Fly Fishing

The Fly Rod Chronicles are spot on! I love this collection of Fly Fishing and Life. Dick Landerman paints a beautiful picture of one of my favorite places on Earth... Knee deep in a river, looking for that next bite. Amazing book and it's wonderful to find someone that I have so much in common with. 5 Stars for this journey that takes you right off the page to places you've been or can't wait to visit. FISH ON!

Brother's Viewpoint

As one of the "Band of Brothers", my opinion is obviously biased. However, this is a wonderful story that will take any reader to the places that Dick writes of in The Chronicles. His descriptions take me back to those places I have been and allow me the vicarious experience of being in those places I have not. He has been generous in his descriptions of all of us as brothers and yet curiously spot on in general. Overall, the experience of growing up in a family such as ours was unique and his telling of it can never quite match the living of it. You will enjoy this slice of the American experience.

The Fly Rod Chronicles - flyfishing is just the beginning

Dick Landerman carries on a tradition of authors who examine flyfishing as a metaphor for life's journey - in the spirit of Ernest Schwiebert, Nick Lyons, and John Gierach. But unlike the aforementioned authors, Landerman neither claims nor chronicles any special talent for capturing trout on a fly. He speaks for the rest of us - guys (and gals) with day jobs, civic assignments, kids and grandkids, aches and pains. In other words, the broad, unofficial flyfishing club whose members would love to spend their lives chasing trout, but settle for the limited time, talent and resources they have to pursue "the quiet sport." There are musings on life's ironies, personal travails, government encroachments, unexpected setbacks, an often-bewildered spouse, and both good and bad days onstream. You'll meet a broad assortment of characters - a streamside critic coaching him on the art of netting a trout, a salmon-fishing guide who takes some big ones on a few highly unorthodox patterns, a non-fishing neighbor who asks, "What's the point?" To Landerman's credit, he makes a valiant stab over 206 pages to answer that rhetorical question, taking the reader from Alaska to Canada's Bow River, to Idaho's South Fork, and back again to his beloved home streams.

Chronicle of Life

This is a witty and funny book about life. The author takes you through life's ordinary experiences while tying in to his love of nature and fishing. This is a great read as well as thought provoking. Recommended!