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Fly
Tales: Lessons in Fly Fishing Like the Real Guys
“Real Guys,” writes Scott Sadil in Fly Tales: Lessons
in Fly Fishing Like the Real Guys, his new collection of literary
essays, “belong to an inner circle of expert anglers—men
and women of rarefied gifts whose skills and knowledge and perhaps
fortune of good breeding have positioned them in territory the rest
of us can only glimpse or occasionally admire.”
But are Real Guys real? Or are they, asks Sadil, perhaps an ideal,
an illusion, a fabrication in the minds of fly fishers who find
themselves unable to avoid the kinds of failures and humiliations
anglers everywhere have suffered since first tying flies to the
ends of their lines?
Follow Sadil through more than three dozen essays, or “lessons,”
as he aims for membership into that “cadre of insiders”
who, he wants to believe, rarely if ever suffer the kinds of defeats
that he has known all too well throughout his angling career. In
the tradition of fine literature from hearth, home, and afield,
Sadil completes each lesson with his pattern, or recipe, for a fly
that has proven integral to these gracefully articulated steps along
his arduous journey to fish like a Real Guy.
“Scott Sadil is not only one of the best fishing writers
I’ve read in a long while, he’s one of the best writers,
period.”
...............................................—Patrick
McManus
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Lost
in Wyoming
Twelve new stories from one of the most captivating voices in contemporary
outdoor literature. Fed by the fertile springs of love and sport,
Lost in Wyoming treats readers to a rare taste in literary
fiction, the bittersweet pleasures of relationships afield. Men
and women, fathers and sons, siblings separated by life’s
unfathomable tides—the characters in these stories share in
the heartfelt tug of wars—some funny, some sad—immediately
recognizable in all of our lives. In Lost in Wyoming, Sadil
lays claim to a unique spot in contemporary literature: whether
near river or surf or stream, passions of the heart bring the waters
of these stories to a simmer and rolling boil.
“When I read my first Scott Sadil story I decided he
was the real thing. This collection confirms his status as a writer
we should read.”
...............................................—John
Gierach
“With language as clear and lively as the rivers that
run through them, Scott Sadil’s short stories disect the
extremities and the heart of the human condition with a sharp
and eloquent scalpel.”
...............................................—James
R. Babb, Gray’s Sporting Journal
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Cast
from the Edge: Tales of an Uncommon Fly Fisher
Cast from the Edge chronicles the experiences of Francis Theodore
Sepic, a mysterious fly fisherman who dwells on life’s edges—the
edge of society, the edge of respectability and, at times, the edge
of sanity. These stories are, by turn, outrageously funny, excrutiatingly
sad, and eminently poignant—a bluntly honest portrayal of
the life of an uncommon fly fisher.
“One of the most distinctive new stylists writing in
fly fishing today, often brilliant, surprising, provocative, graphic.”
................................................—Seth
Norman, Fly Rod & Reel
“Scott Sadil’s Cast from the Edge is
a vigorous, humorous, memorable description of the fishing passion
and why it takes hold, told with freshness and verve.”
...............................................—W.
D. Wetherell, author of Vermont Rivers
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Angling
Baja: One man’s fly fishing journey through the surf
“By its very nature, fly fishing in the surf implies a
certain reckless freedom, an affinity for risk-taking akin as much
to art as sport, plus a deep and committed faith in the possibility
of the extraordinary.”
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—Scott Sadil
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Scott Sadil
scott@scottsadil.com
541.490.1498
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