An author I will read anything by: Monte Burke, who writes about football and fishing (generally not at the same time). He documented the quest to catch a world-record tarpon using a fly rod in Lords of the Fly, a gorgeous book that is meticulously reported and researched. I’d recommend it to anyone, whether or not you are a fisherman: It’s really a Moby-Dick-like tale of obsession and madness, with a touch more drugs and mob activity than Melville. Burke’s new essay and profile collection, Rivers Always Reach the Sea, is also a delight. Source
This Tyler Austin Harper, a staff writer who has covered the University of Chicago’s latest “gut-punch to the humanities”; the dangerous, secretive world of extreme fishing needs to do a book on bass fishing.