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Making The Times
Almost ten years ago, Bob Butz wrote a story for the New York Times about fly fishing for carp on Lake Michigan near his Traverse City-area home. That story is included in a new book edited by Stephen Sautner. Flats style fly fishing for carp has exploded in popularity in the last ten years. Northern Michigan, and specifically the Traverse City area, is commonly regarded among anglers as one of the best places in America to do it. Bob Butz has written about flats style carp fishing for Fly Rod & Reel, and Orvis News, but the story included here in this new book, Upriver & Downstream: The Best Fly Fishing & Angling Adventures From The New York Times, was the first that arguably sparked a new and nationwide interest in this incredible fly fishing opportunity. ...Upriver And Downstream gathers seventy columns about fishing—from freshwater to saltwater, from small ponds to the Great lakes, from the Pacific Northwest to post-Soviet Russia—written for the “Outdoors” column of the New York Times. Contributors include such celebrated names as Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane, Nelson Bryant, Peter Kaminsky, Ernest Sweibert, and Robert H. Boyle… To order or learn more, click here.
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