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awurban@msn.com

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haig-brown books
« on: November 30, 2010, 10:59:49 PM »

Hey, I was just wondering if any of you have read any of Roderick haig-brown's books? I haven't yet and I dont really know where to start or which ones are good. Any advice?
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2010, 11:09:49 PM »

fishermans summer & fishermans fall are 2 of his best.
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2010, 02:46:03 AM »

The Whale People is a good read as well.
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2010, 08:12:52 AM »

I think his best was "Measure of the Year", followed by "A River Never Sleeps" but hell, he didn't write any bad ones.
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2010, 09:16:11 AM »

Just start by going to your local library as they have most of them. I have not read a bad one yet.
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2010, 08:50:07 PM »

My 15 yr old just handed me "A River Never Sleeps". He ripped through in about 2 weeks and said it was very good. His grand dad gave it to him. I think it is considered one of Haig-Brown's top books.
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2010, 09:22:17 PM »

Thanks for the advice guys, I am going to check a couple of them out for sure :) I am just reading another book on fishing and after I read some haig-brown I want to find some books relating to fly fishing for steelhead
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2010, 10:27:22 PM »

Its not a Haig- Brown book, but 'The River Why' by David Duncan is a great read.  Some great parts about Fly vs Bait (gear) fishing....
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2010, 08:05:55 AM »

Its not a Haig- Brown book, but 'The River Why' by David Duncan is a great read.  Some great parts about Fly vs Bait (gear) fishing....
I agree lovethewater.  Probably the best fishing book I have read.
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2010, 12:31:34 PM »

To learn a bit about what grantswish means, try reading E. Bennett Metcalfe's  "The Life of Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown, A Man of Some Importance".  Shows a little known side of the man; not all good. 
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2010, 12:55:33 PM »

A tremendous reminder.  I always enjoyed his books.  I grew up in the territory about which he wrote and so it all had special meaning.   I think I still have the last one I read, Bright Waters Bright Fish, tucked away somewhere.   Time to look and maybe read it again.

I was a teenager in the area when he was a judge and it was certainly considered  bad luck to appear before him.

I recall reading in one of his books about his early years in BC when he worked in a logging camp near the Nimpkish River.    He talked about throwing copper spoons to huge schools of giant Springs as they came up the river.  Oh to see that again.

I think it was that same book in which he wrote about a smaller stream near the Nimpkish in which the coho were bigger, brighter and better biters.  He never identified the stream and I have wondered whether it was the Kokish, the Cluxewe or an even smaller stream.
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Re: haig-brown books
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2010, 01:58:49 AM »

Bright Waters, Bright Fish is one book my dad gave me. I treasure that book very much. and another vote for Fisherman's Fall - first book I ever borrowed from the library.
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