Tight Lines: Ten Years of the Yale Anglers' Journal

Drawing on the Yale Anglers' Journal's first decade of publication, this solid collection of 50 short stories, travelogues, memoirs, scientific explorations, speeches and poems covers popular and obscure aspects of the sport: fly fishing, spin fishing and cane poling, along with catfish, striped bass and even the lowly sunfish. The Yale Anglers' Journal was founded in 1996 by James Prosek, an upperclassman from New England, and Joseph Furia, a freshman from the West Coast, who bonded over their love of fishing and the written word. These two pursuits are the glue that holds together this anthology of well-crafted pieces from contributors including household names such as W.B. Yeats, President Carter and Christopher Buckley as well as less well-known writers like Furia. Prosek's magnificent watercolor illustrations lend the volume a coffee table book-feel despite its slender size, making it a visually appealing gift for any fisherman, even ones that attended Harvard. Illus.