Cast Again - Hardcover

Olsson, Jennifer

4.5

6 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558214429 ISBN 13: 9781558214422

Publisher: Lyons Pr, 1996

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Jennifer Olsson's dozen tales, fueled by her experiences as a fishing guide in Montana, introduce us to a colorful panoply of clients: a wealthy, middle-aged woman forced by her husband to learn to fly fish, who talks the author into taking her shopping instead; a young woman who is determined to fish despite her boyfriend's disdain for the sport; a man who, given just a few months to live, miraculously recovered and has looked forward to his day of fishing for years. We are taken to the pristine trout streams of Montana, to the tarpon flats of the Florida Keys, and to the icy rivers of Sweden to fish for grayling.

Cast Again is also the story of a woman's life built around fly fishing and the aesthetics, ethics, beauty, and rhythms of the days that define the angling life. It will appeal immensely to all fly fishers, especially to the legions of women just discovering the sport, but also anyone seeking a life more connected to the natural world and more dictated by the heart's desires. Crisp as perfect casts, the essays in Cast Again are funny, poignant, fresh, and vibrating with life.

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Jennifer Olsson is a spy in the ranks; her keen eye for detail and generous spirit make Cast Again a pleasure to read and a lesson to anyone bent on introducing a loved one to fly-fishing. A guide in Montana for more than 10 years before becoming a full-time writer, Olsson's voice is that of the infiltrator. She smuggles the usual bits of information--the dilemmas of a difficult sport--from the front but deciphers them through her own unique perspective. In "I'd Like to Get My Wife into Fly-Fishing," the narrator (also a fly-fishing guide named Jennifer) and her freshly coiffed client spend a day shopping on the sly at the western boutiques instead of fishing. In "Just One," the same narrator struggles to snare a fish for her inexperienced client, and when the woman finally lands a big, beautiful brown trout, the narrator hopes that her client's waiting husband won't ask, "Just one?" These are stories that sparkle and instruct.

From Library Journal:

A Montana fishing guide, writer, and instructor, Olsson offers a collection of essays on the fishing life. Some deal with her family, some with her husband (with whom she shares a passion for fly fishing), but the best pieces deal with her trips (both successful and unsuccessful) with her clients. Often caught in the midst of dysfunctional families on vacation, she is forced to be diplomatic in the face of family tension and squabbles. One husband, hoping his wife will learn to love fishing, waves her off: "Anxiously, like a patient waiting for the pathology report, he waits for our return." And if the fishing is lousy, "you feel like nobody, and begin to believe that the trout, with a brain the size of a pea, laughs." Fans of Holly Morris's A Different Angle: Fly Fishing Stories by Women (LJ 3/15/95) will enjoy this. Recommended for public libraries.?Kathryn Ruffle, Coll. of New Caledonia Lib., Prince George, B.C., Canada
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