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Publisher's Weekly
To the author, trout fishing is an obsession; fishing for other species is recreation. Tapply, a contributing editor of Field and Stream and creator of the Brady Coyne mystery novels, offers an entertaining collection of pieces about his favorite sport. A catch-and-release angler, he has fished in the millponds and streams of New England, the fabled trout rivers of the West, the tarpon flats of Belize. Among his neuroses are the ''fly fetish'' and ''pattern anxiety.'' Tapply complains that the flies he makes are designed for yesterday's trout, and he fantasizes about the perfect fly. Reprinting brief excerpts from his novels, Tapply introduces his alter ego, Brady Coyne, who sums up the essence of the sport: ''Fishing is just the most fun a man can have standing up.'' The book is a fine addition to the angler's library; much of it was originally published in Field & Stream , in slightly different form.
Library Journal
Tapply is best known as the author of mysteries featuring lawyer-fisherman Brady Coyne. Opening Day offers a couple of Coyne excerpts, but the majority of the 22 pieces are reworked nonfiction essays Tapply wrote for Field and Stream in 1988-89. Primarily trout-oriented, their venues are divided between New England, Colorado, and Montana, with a side trip to Belize for tarpon. Thoroughly professional in style and written with a light, self-deprecating hand, the pieces mix some interesting fly-fishing pointers with good-humored personal anecdote. There is nothing here that destines Opening Day for the highest echelons of angling literature, but it is a solid, pleasant, and readable contribution to the genre which should be acquired by all large fishing collections, and small to medium collections in the locales described.-- David J. Panciera, Westerly P.L., R.I.
To the author, trout fishing is an obsession; fishing for other species is recreation. Tapply, a contributing editor of Field and Stream and creator of the Brady Coyne mystery novels, offers an entertaining collection of pieces about his favorite sport. A catch-and-release angler, he has fished in the millponds and streams of New England, the fabled trout rivers of the West, the tarpon flats of Belize. Among his neuroses are the ''fly fetish'' and ''pattern anxiety.'' Tapply complains that the flies he makes are designed for yesterday's trout, and he fantasizes about the perfect fly. Reprinting brief excerpts from his novels, Tapply introduces his alter ego, Brady Coyne, who sums up the essence of the sport: ''Fishing is just the most fun a man can have standing up.'' The book is a fine addition to the angler's library; much of it was originally published in Field & Stream , in slightly different form.
Library Journal
Tapply is best known as the author of mysteries featuring lawyer-fisherman Brady Coyne. Opening Day offers a couple of Coyne excerpts, but the majority of the 22 pieces are reworked nonfiction essays Tapply wrote for Field and Stream in 1988-89. Primarily trout-oriented, their venues are divided between New England, Colorado, and Montana, with a side trip to Belize for tarpon. Thoroughly professional in style and written with a light, self-deprecating hand, the pieces mix some interesting fly-fishing pointers with good-humored personal anecdote. There is nothing here that destines Opening Day for the highest echelons of angling literature, but it is a solid, pleasant, and readable contribution to the genre which should be acquired by all large fishing collections, and small to medium collections in the locales described.-- David J. Panciera, Westerly P.L., R.I.
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