The Angler's Coast. Introduction by Thomas McGuane.
New York: Doubleday, 1976. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Russell Chatham. Chatham dishes out fourteen tales of fishing in the Pacific Northwest, accompanied by numerous of his illustrations. Like Roderick Haig-Brown and other notable angler-writers, he is a fly-fisherman; he doesn't drop a line in the water, he seeks action. There are recollections of casting for salmon in British Columbia rivers; of a chance encounter with herring off the California coast, the titular locale; of steelhead trout biting on the North Umpqua, in Oregon, and the pursuit of shad in California's Central Valley. Item #28675
ISBN: 0385009461
Price: $375.00