My Secret Fishing Life

by Nick Lyons

Book Overview

Beyond his life as an English professor, book publisher, and writer, Lyons has always had a "secret fishing life", explored in this collection of wise, gentle, and witty essays. Illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087113750X
• ISBN13: 9780871137500
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Nick, Mari, Tony & Sparse: highly personal matters

Mr. Lyons, whose books (both edited and written) fill a significant portion of my fly fishing library, has written a very personal book.The title is accurate at many levels. I doubt that many of us would share so much about our personal lives - or that we would be able to do so with such candor and joy.Mr. Lyons description of the travels (and travails) of a special copy of Sparse Grey Hackle's Fishless Days, Angling Nights is worth the price of the book.Fishing in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty between morning appointments is an incredible story (especially to this former New Yorker ... the Hudson off of NYC was dead in the 60's & 70's).I never seem to find any time to fish. With this little book, I have a guide of how to find (or take) a little time here and there for fly fishing. Thank you, Mr. Lyons, for your guide to blending avocations with vocations. Mr. Lyons sold his publishing company recently. May he and his family enjoy many years of post-publishing / editing repose and adventure. We may be lucky enough to have a second volume: perhaps a guide for the next twenty years?