tod collins' "The Art of being an awful angler" A review by Ian Cox Tod Collins’ “Art of being an awful angler” is one of the best flyfishing reminisces I have ever read. I say so, not just because of the quirky subtlety of the title and the journey you embark on when reading this Underberg veterinarian's tale of a lifetime of fishing. That is enough to make this book great. But what makes it extraordinary is the way Tod describes those fishing moments of being, not in the context of the fantastic angler (FF as he calls them), but foranglers for whom fishing is a pastime rather than their main preoccupation.
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Tod is well qualified to write this book. His is the busy life of a country veterinarian, naturalist cum canoeist and mountaineer and family man He has number of well received books to his name. He claims to be an awful angler, but do not be fooled. According to Tod, awful anglers can and do fish. It is just that they do not make fishing the centre of their lives. Angling, for the awful angler lies more in the warp and weave of the cloth into which the tapestry of their lives is stitched. It is not the main event.
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