THE TUG IS THE DRUG: 37 FLY-FISHING ESSAYS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES and BEYOND. By Chris Santella.

2017 1st edition. 8vo (156 x 235mm). Ppviii,176. Not illustrated. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

"These thirty-seven stories take readers from leaping makos near the fairways of Torrey Pines to midnight Atlantic salmon fishing on the fabled Ponoi to encounters with very friendly mujeres on the streets of Havana .. .. and even offer an unauthorised (yet unequivocal) account of Bob Dylan's 1970s obsession with fishing. Santella's peripatetic lifestyle and eye for entertaining details - even those that have little to do with the act of throwing flies at fish - will make you look at fishing in a whole different way." Essays include: A ferocious gift lures anglers to Christmas Island; The Karma of broken trailers; Travelling light; Calgary - a city where trout fishing does not go to die; Chasing juvenile tarpon through Yucatan mangroves; Off the links, onto the stream; Frank Moore, dean of the North Umpqua; When the Roosterfish start to run, anglers just try to keep up; Once considered 'trash', carp become worthy fly rod target; Seeking Stripers in the shallows of Maine's Casco Bay; NATO and the human anchor; Postcard from Homosassa; In Ireland, fishing for Salmon that like a crowd; On our own on Alaska's Kanekok River; Casting with the master; Salmon flies awaken western trout anglers; The fish whose bite is as fierce as its name; White nights of salmon; fly anglers are drawn to a toothy adversary; The addictive allure of the Steelhead's tug; Mojitos, muchachas, y Sabado; Lobstermen turn to guiding in the Yukatan; How to get kunked on the Bulkley and threaten your marriage at the same time; Makos on the fly; Size does matter when Spey casting; The man who brought trout to a valley of gravel; Fishing with Lewis and Clark; The greedy beady egg man; Dylan, the fly-fishing years; Feed your fish head; Among the Hobbit Trout; Rainbows all; The Rainbows of Crater Lake; It was epic, dude!; The Pledge; No good deed goes unpunished; Smallmouth in Greater Portland.