A memoir of fishing and life shared through letters to a childhood friend. A three book series spanning 50 years - fishing with a fly rod in streams and in the salt. The characters fished with, the places traveled to and how life sometimes gets in the way. Tom McCoy is a lifelong fisherman who loves to fly fish for trout but also enjoys all that the saltwater has to offer. He has fished mountain streams north, east, south and west. In this collection he shares these adventures through letters to his lifelong friend named Mack. Here is a sample: Chapter Fourteen - East Branch at Roger's Dear...

Tom's home waters, when it comes to trout, are the Catskills of New York State so it is appropriate that the first stories in this collection take place there. Living on the Long Island Sound and being a short distance from the saltwater mecca of Montauk, he has been fortunate to fish there as well, one time witnessing the amazing triple play of bass, blues and false albacore, all exploding at once within the shadow of the famous lighthouse. Fly Fishermen have a need to look west, beyond the prairies. Montana and its sister states with their mountains, wild streams and monster trout have been...

A memoir of fishing and life shared through letters to a childhood friend. A three book series spanning 50 years - fishing with a fly rod in streams and in the salt. The characters fished with, the places traveled to and how life sometimes gets in the way. Letters to Mack 1 and 2 have brought us from the 1950's though 2010. The correspondence in book 3 covers the expanding reach of Tom's fly rod, moving from trout and stripers to smallmouth bass, tarpon, and salmon then on to steelhead. They include taking a buddy fishing and some kids as well. They disclose the closing of some chapters in...