Salmon on a Fly: The Essential Wisdom and Lore from a Lifetime of Salmon Fishing

After his death in an airplane crash in 1991, Wulff's eulogists emphasized his salmon conservation work from among a lifetime of angling accomplishments. So this collection, spanning his writing on Atlantic salmon (including a few of his rare fiction pieces from the 1940s), will come as something of an epitaph. The stylish introduction by Nelson Bryant is like swallows over a stream: a promise of good fishing. Former Fly Fisherman managing editor Merwin's selections reflect Wulff's range as an angler and conservationist. The claim the subtitle makes for this pleasant little anthology of magazine pieces--``The Essential Wisdom and Lore from a Lifetime of Salmon Fishing''--however, was actually met by Wulff's The Atlantic Salmon, published in 1989. Still, this is a fitting farewell to a passionate, truly compleat angler. (June)