It may be a long winter. And sometimes
a person is out and about and sees a used book store. Or maybe
you have a friend or family member with a collection of sporting
books. Some old books obviously have become collectors items
and if you stumble across one of them you are indeed fortunate.
This one may not be exactly a collector's
item, but if you spend anytime in the outdoors, you will appreciate
the contents.
Those of us with a slight hint of grey hair
at the temples will remember "Tapply's Tips" which ran seemingly
forever in Field and Stream. This book was written as a
compilation of those articles, which at the time covered 14 years
of answers to sportsman's questions.
Almost everything you want to know on fish,
fishing, lures, flies are here. A small excerpt from the section on
"Reading the Water" appears in this weeks
Fly Fishing 101 article. For the hunters, there are answers
on upland birds, varmints, deer and ducks. Target shooting, dogs,
training dogs, even how to solve the problem of car sick dogs is here.
And a wonderful section called "Mixed Bag" which tells how to have
fun without killing anything, getting along with water skiers (and may
be usable with jet skiers as well) and the one I love, favorite arguments.
Camp fire conversation at it's best.
There is another Tapply book you just might
run across. We don't I have it. I remember it well, but it somehow
got away. It is the Fly Tyer's Handbook. Look for that
one too.
Maybe you haven't reached the point where
you see any value in old books ... but then again, you might be
surprised just how much has already been written about fly fishing.
Maybe nothing really is new. ~ DB
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