Hi GANG !
I just finished re-reading "Fishless Days and Angling Nights, by Al
Miller, AKA Sparse Grey Hackle, Crown Publishing co., 1971 This book is
a gathering of Spars's fishing stories, some true, some embellished, but
still one of the most enjoyable fishing books I've ever read. I highly
recommend anything written by Sparse.
This also got me to thinking about my alltime favorite outdoor writers.
So, I decided to list my top ten. This will be hard to do, but here
goes! Those of you who know me, know that I'm a collector. I collect
classic babmoo fly rods, classic golf clubs and fly fishing books, some
classic, some not, some instructional, but all entertaining. At last
count I have 231 of thesse books.
My rankings are below with my top entertaining fishing writer being
Sparse Grey Hackle. Flick, Schullery and Schwiebert are my three
favorite instructional fishing writers. They tied for tenth place.
WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITES ?
Alfred Miller, AKA Sparse Grey Hackle
Ray Bergman
Roderick Haig-Brown
Robert Traver
John Voelker
Frank Woolner
Patrick McManus
Ed Zern
John Gierach
Art Flick
Paul Schullery
Ernest Schwiebert
Have A Great Day!
JIMMY D
P.S. Sparse Grey Hackle looks enough like DonO to be his twin. Put a
white mustache and Presto - Don Ordes! Anyway, I'm sure that DonO knew
Sparse. After all DonO knows most everything. Just ask him. ;-)
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JIMMY D. MOORE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish & Game Mag,
Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club,
Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited,
Member TOWA, Retired Scout Exec. BSA.
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