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 FishingRabbi |
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Posts: 57 05/25/2009 16:49 |
I'm going into the hospital later this week for a little cardiac "tune-up". Hopefully, (G-d willing), I won't be in for too long. Anyway
I'm looking for some suggestions for light (ie, readable under the influence of significant pain-killing drugs) and humorous reading material . Doesn't
have to fly fishing themed - but it wouldn't hurt.
Thanks for the help, Best the FishingRabbi |
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Posts: 6000 05/25/2009 18:02 the Canefather |
Any of the One Eyed Poacher books by Edmund Ware Smith, Robert Traver's Danny and the boys books and Dud Dean books by Arthur Macdougall Jr. best of luck
as well.
banjo
Fly fishing is my Quisisana (the name is Italian for "place where one heals one's self.") "...... SLG Visit my website about Bamboo rods... Fishnbanjo's Place |
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Posts: 1183 05/25/2009 21:27 |
Any of John Gierach's books would fit the bill. Best of Luck!
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Posts: 164 05/25/2009 21:38 |
Start from the begining: Trout Bum. You will be a friend of John in no time - truly a prophet in the chruch of Flyfishing.
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Posts: 165 05/25/2009 21:39 |
Ooops I forgot, please feel better soon Rabbi.
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Posts: 306 05/26/2009 17:32 |
Pick up a copy of Robert E howards short stories "Breckenridge Elkins" A man from Bear Creek. You will find this just the ticket for a befuddled and
addlepated mind.
Better yet, I just downloaded a PDF Copy for free at the following URL. Enjoy http://manybooks.net/titles/howardrother08Breckinridge.html |
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Posts: 102 05/26/2009 17:49 |
Zaa Ghizint!
Steve V.
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Posts: 176 05/26/2009 18:49 |
Firstly I hope it goes well!!!!! Patric F McManus " A fine and pleasant misery" or any of his other books are real belly laugh reads if you did
any outdoors activities as a kid. A lot of really funny childhood fishing stories (so light on the fly fishing but if you remember tennis shoes and camping/
fishing/ hunting with a slightly goofy friend you will enjoy them) I also second Gierach's books sweet funny and some of the best fishing stuff ever
written. A Norman McClaine (sp?) book of short stories is a good read as well. Will keep you in thoughts and prayers.....
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Posts: 2719 05/26/2009 19:09 |
Best of wishes with your "tune-up". Hope your are out of the hospital in record time!
A couple of books you've probably read, but are always good for the occasional re-read......"Trout Madness" by Robert Traver and "The River Why" by David James Duncan. Both of these always bring smiles and oft-times outright chuckles. And, if you're into outrageous satire, "Catch 22" is always worthy of a re-read! Bob Go Heels!!!
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Posts: 198 05/26/2009 21:44 |
Lots of great suggestions here.... Two of the funniest fishing books I've ever read are Guiding Elliot by Robert
Lee and True Love and the Woolly Bugger by David Ames.
Get well soon, Geary |
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Posts: 709 05/27/2009 23:59 |
No One has mentioned John Taintor Foote's "A Wedding Gift", "Daughter of Delilah" - and the fine volume, "Anglers All" that
has those stories and more. Very funny stuff.
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Posts: 403 05/28/2009 11:52 |
Good luck with the surgery Rabbi.
I don't think you'll want anything that makes you "belly laugh" for a week at least. 
I'd second the Gierach books recommendation. Larry Swearingen Fort Wayne, IN New Hoosier |
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FishingRabbi |
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Posts: 58 06/05/2009 12:49 |
Thanks to all for the suggestions and good wishes. Back home now. Thank G-d starting to feel better. I'm not sure when I'll be back on the water, my
doctor wants me to finish rehab first.
Again, my thanks and best to all the FR |
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Posts: 4652 06/05/2009 13:55 Moderator |
Glad to have you back online in!!!
Do the rehab, do the rehab, oh and do the rehab! You'll back in the water before you know it.
Pete
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Posts: 266 06/05/2009 13:56 |
FR;
I've been home for about 3 weeks now from my own "tune-up" (quadruple by-pass) and I assure you that you'll feel better each day from here on out. Do exactly what your dr.'s tell you to do, work hard in your rehab and you won't believe how good you can feel in a short time. I have lawn cast but not fished yet, though I've been cleared to do so and I'm sure I'm going to be surprised at my energy and endurance over past years. Peace, G-d's blessings and rapid healing! Pat "He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly
fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."
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Posts: 1862 06/05/2009 15:06 |
Yesterday evening, I spent several hours with my young cardiologist teaching him a few things about fly fishing. Hopefully, will get him out on the water next
week after he spends a few evenings practicing his casting. Now to find a game warden to fish with and I'll be set !
Cheers and Good Health to All Bob |
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Posts: 1863 06/05/2009 18:19 |
Paul
Had the angiogram last December ... decided to see how my wife could drive at midnight during the biggest snowstorm of the winter .... plus found out that she could still stay awake for close to two days, given the right encouragement (or fear !) Best Bob |
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freestoner.fiberglassflyro... |
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Posts: 249 06/06/2009 15:28 |
I've been reading a few collections lately, for light reading:
The Armchair Angler, edited by Terry Brykczynski and David Reuther- a huge collection of legendary angling writing- just from the listing on the front cover: Ray Bergman, Ray Blount Jr., Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, A. J. McClane, Thomas McGuane, Izaak Walton, Ted Williams... think of four more names of well-known fishing writers, and I'll bet at least three of them have a story in here. The Best Of Outside (Magazine): The First 20 Years- another great anthology- just from the front cover: Edward Abbey, Tim Cahill, Ian Frazier, Jim Harrison, Sebastian Junger, Barry Lopez, David Quanmen, Jonathan Raban, Jane Smiley, Annie Proulx, John Krakauer, Thomas McGuane... and finally, probably the most fun one: Bad Trips, edited by Keith Fraser- a huge anthology of travel writers, recalling their most nightmarish, absolute worst adventures in journeying around the globe, from Louisiana, to Norway, to the Orinoco River Basin, to Bangkok, to Labrador...just to name a few of the settings, off the top of my head. A compendium of weirdness you could never have imagined before reading it. Take it easy, Rabbi.
"I can't not believe in a creator. The birds sing too beautifully and the trout are too speckled." John Martyn 1948-2009
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Posts: 508 06/09/2009 09:00 |
When I'm bored or depressed, I love to pick up a Gierach book for an hour or two. It always makes me smile.
Bill Anderson, Sarsota, Fl. "Bamboo is the Benchmark in flyrods". |
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Posts: 251 06/10/2009 04:28 |
There's an rare old (1949) English book written during WW2 by Bernard Venables, a then Newspaper Man, called "A Fisherman's Testament"
(recently republished http://www.medlarpress.com/7761-A-Fishermans-Testament_by_Bernard-Venables.html
), that I first read in hospital.
To save you trying to find a copy, here's the section that will describe any good fishing book that you will read: "Though at all times the fisherman's mind is apt to stray from more immediate things to thoughts of fishing, it is perhaps during
illness that he most dwells upon it. The longer he is
confined the more he sees not the medicine bottles, not the thermometer but the willowed banks he has known, the placid summer waters. He hears the slow sound
of oars in rowlocks and the splash of water voles. His appetite for angling literature and tackle catalogues becomes insatiable. He begins to wonder if his
illness will justify a convalescent holiday. From this stage he passes rapidly to making lists of the new tackle he will need to buy. On this list goes
everything that any possible contingency of water and weather may make necessary. And, indeed, many that are not so strictly necessary. In his heart he knows
that if he gets his holiday he will buy only a fraction of the list, but the making of it is a great happiness to him."
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Posts: 15 07/15/2009 08:36 |
Hi there,hope you are up and about and feeling well . I have just re-read 'On Fishing' by Brian Clarke who is the angling correspondent for The
Times newspaper. Wonderful book.
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