"True Love and the Woolly Bugger is a thoroughly amusing, manic, and
perversely informative book about fishing in several of its most mutant
forms." -Tom McGuane "Dave Ames's book . . . is good-natured fun, filled
with insight, a passion for what honest fly fishing really is. He has a
sharp eye for quirky nuance that makes simple language dance a wild
step." -John Holt, author of Knee Deep in Montana's Trout Streams "True
Love and the Woolly Bugger is adventurous and funny, and yet also
poignant. In short, it's not just a fishing book, but very much like
life itself, and well worth reading, even by folks who have never made a
cast." -John Barsness, editor of Gray's Sporting Journal and Montana
Time When is "sex, death, and fly fishing" not about the life cycle of
an insect? When you read True Love and the Woolly Bugger, which views
fly fishing and life through a different lens. In these tales trout,
tarpon, and bonefish are skillfully interwoven with all the
things-funny, happy, and sad-that happen to Dave Ames's completely
unforgettable characters: a laid-back Bahamian fishing guide who stalks
"gourmet" food, especially for his American clients; a tattooed,
motorcycle-riding, fly-fishing beauty who teaches the hero a thing or
two; his fishing buddies . . . a perverse and driven lot who continually
push the envelope of sanity and good judgment. "True Love" takes you to
the Bob Marshall Wilderness to fish for grayling and trout, and to learn
about enduring love. "The Woolly Bugger" is an odyssey through three
decades of fishing and sometimes hard living, from the author's
childhood bait fishing to his truly unusual conversion to flies and
catch-and-release. True Love and the Woolly Bugger will captivate you
with remarkable stories, remarkably told, and leave you asking for more.
