Full Description
Two Thirds Water is a collection of fly-fishing essays covering Arnie Sabatelli's broad and varied lifetime experience of fishing all kinds of waters, salt and freshwater, from remote Adirondack ponds to the Long Island Sound, Bahamian flats, Michigan steelhead rivers, and tiny streams high in the mountains of Mexico.
Fly fishing for Arnie is such a meaningful pursuit and through it, in the quiet time on the waters and the reflection and introspection that follow, Arnie contemplates the presence of water within and around us to come to a deeper understanding of who he is and what matters.
In these essays, whether he's praising the raw, muscularity of catching bluefish, enjoying the solitude of hiking into remote places to fish from canoe, looking at quantum physics to address nuanced dimensions of catching fish with a fly, or using fishing memories to express feelings of personal loss, Arnie reaches for and grasps the mystery and beauty at the heart of fly fishing.
The collection will inspire you to look more fully at the world around you, especially the fish-filled waters covering two-thirds of our planet.
Contents
Table of Contents:
Seeing Them
Voices
Getting Ready (Michigan, the late 90s)
Trucha Chiquita
Two Thirds Water
Pounds, Not Inches
First Fish
Confession
The Fish in the Log
Chasing the Blues
Parallel Universes
Too Much?
The Birds and the Kayak
Spinner Fall, a Northern Michigan Fish Story
Fishing with Brad, a Tribute
Super Fly
Acts of Faith
Ode to Wooly Buggers
Blow Winds, Blow
Perfect Worlds
Blind Luck (Or, Being and Fish)
A Kind of Turbulence
Ninety Seven Bass
Notes From the Shed
Adirondack Bass
Deceptions
