The unreasonable virtue of fly fishing

Prologue: winter without Tolstoy on the Big Wood River

Why?

Doing it the hard way

The thinking prey

Who started this?

American fly fishing

It's about the fly

The comfort of my rod

Send you reeling

A good line

Wading in

Fisherwomen

Difficult thoughts

Fishing for words

Epilogue: Yeats on the Blackwater

Acknowledgments

Appendix: rivers in this book.