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52 Rivers

52 Rivers

A Woman's Flyfishing Journey

by Shelley Walchak

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appears in Fishing.

Shelley Walchak is a librarian by trade, but she is an angler at heart. Flyfishing is a late life discovery for her, but she intends to make up as much time as possible. Walchak gave up her job at the Colorado State Library to fly fish a river a week for a year. She bought and outfitted a camper, purchased camera equipment and a computer and hit t...

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Consider A River Runs through It and Other Stories by Norman MacLean. Recommended by 3 sources.

MacLean writes in lean yet lyrical sentences that slow time down; the title novella unfolds like a single, patient cast of a fly line. What works best is the combination of precise outdoor detail and a melancholic account of family, faith, and memory—the fishing scenes function as both action and extended metaphor. The main limitation is tempo: readers who like plot-driven narratives or quick payoff may find long, contemplative passages and repeated landscape description tedious rather than immersive. Other stories in the collection are shorter and sometimes sharper, so skim-and-return works.

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