"Scott Seidman" wrote


I'm actually not this way with most books.

I didn't think you were ... or worded better .. I knew I was, to a degree,
misreading you when I tapped out my reply.

It's just the phrase struck me, and not really as it applies to fishing
books, but to all our culture and our reverence for books. Every stupid
thing ever thought has been published in a book ... and then again on ROFF
G. The first semester in an honors program at college my son was
required to take a course designed to make more careful in their choices of
sources of information ... I thought that was a great idea.


Hughes is one of my favorite modern authors ... well presented, documented
and helpful ...never inflexible or "my way is the one right way".



The modern author that causes me to "smile" the most is Borger, who has line
after line that read like, " After I invented wet flies, and my son invented
the basic overhead cast, we caught 387 fish that afternoon in 55 minutes,
all in the 7 to 12 pound range." Makes it hard for me to even try and
believe the real content on technique.