Calling After Water: Dispatches from a Fishing Life [SIGNED]

Calling After Water: Dispatches from a Fishing LifeDave Karczynski fishes—and writes—with both eyes wide open to the magic of water. With the trademark blend of adventure, humor, and insight that has made him one fly fishing’s most widely published authors, this collection of nineteen essays charts Dave’s journey as he casts his way from the quiet streams of the Upper Midwest to the far corners of the earth—and back again. Readers will tramp across Patagonia with a shamanic brook trout whisperer, raft through the Himalayas in search of golden mahseer, hunt native brown trout in the Bohemian highlands, and revel in the promise of a Northern Michigan spinner fall.  But Calling After Water is more than just a travelogue or memoir. It’s also a book-long effort to plumb fishing’s deepest experiences, and in doing so to probe its many questions. What is the line that separates sanity from madness when it comes to winter steelheading? How does time behave differently for an angler tied tight