Anglers Journal

The Armchair Angler

The Catch of a Lifetime

By Peter Kaminsky

Artisan Books

Peter Kaminsky writes passionately about the world of angling, but he now flexes his curating muscles in this beautiful fly-fishing anthology. A common pitfall of anthologies is the repetition of subjects and entries so long you forget the book is a collection of voices. Yet Kaminsky has set a format with that balks at those shortcomings.

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