Sounds like a good read Art. That's one I'd like to find. I'll probably check my library first, and see if they have it (or can inter-library loan one) as I tend to want to read something before I add it to my own library.

Thanks for the tip, especially since I'm just finishing a book (Two years before the mast) and looking for my next read.

---David

Yep. Cover to cover. I've really enjoyed it, and have added it to my library. But I'm probably the perfect individual to enjoy it. Having grown up surfing and sailing the Southern California coast, (which I still do as often as I can) I have a real interest in the "historical" narrative describing areas that I called home. Santa Barbara in particular. But being a small craft "sailor" and having done a fair amount of coastal (and some off-shore) cruising with my father, I have a great deal of interest in the sailing / voyage accounts as well. So the book "fits" me in a lot of ways. I'd recommend it to the right individual, but for the wrong individual (my wife for example) it would probably be a tough read. Knowledge of nautical terms is also handy to have. So as a past Naval Officer, if you're into that kind of thing, and enjoy a book written as a memoir, you'd probably find it enjoyable. I seem to recall from somewhere that "Two Years..." was once required reading for our naval enlisted men. Based upon what you've stated, that must be false. Perhaps this "old curmudgeon" misunderstood, or just plain remembers things that never were. It wouldn't be the first time, and I doubt it will be the last. As much as I enjoy my "maturity", there are some things that suck about aging.

---David

This sounds like a great read. Thanks for the recommendation! I'll keep my eye out for it.

I've been wanting to pick this title up, but I have not got around to purchasing it. I'm currently reading Ed Shenk's Fly Rod Trouting, and I've got some fantasy novels sitting on the shelf that I need to read before I even think about buying anything else at this point.

Not yet - in fact I haven't even been up to the Hollow so far, which is strange in a country this small. If anything I know Neil more as a fellow writer than as a fisherman, if that makes sense, but he got a good trout on my river last year (and wrote about it), and I think I need to return the favour

Theo

I found a nicely discounted copy of this from Golden Witch on ebay and hope to have it in my hands soon.

So far I'm about 30 pages in and am really enjoying it. The book is a very nice diversion for sure.

blufloyd, funny you mention Herons. I fish small rough little creeks, almost always I am in the company of a blue heron. Very often hidden in the background I will get a glimpse of the smaller green Heron.

Just got a few books ordered off Abe. I need more books for the library it is overflowing badly.