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The highlight of every fishing season is the trip to a small lake in northern New York where my buddies and I leave our trout gear at home and chase the king of the warmwater lakes - the largemouth bass.

That Maryland bank clad in stone offered no line of credit. The business, best described, was an angle of line to rock beside which a redbreast sunfish held suspended in shaded water.

Light gear is best for little fish for two big reasons

The father of English fishing literature, Izaak Walton, devotes two chapters of The Compleat Angler to chubs

When you catch a fish species on the fly for the first time

Picture a uniform, unbroken expanse of sun bright cloud bed; the classic white sky day

Perfection is as illusory in fishing as it is in any other aspect of life

This is a book I can highly recommend with a crystal clear conscience. Get a copy. You won't be sorry.