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A jerk on one end

by Robert Hughes

"In A Jerk on One End, Hughes traces his love of fishing back to his earliest boyhood on Sydney Harbor, Australia, and recounts the high and low points of his career with rod and reel - the first surge of triumph when he snagged a six-pound bonito, the shame of having his father catch him trout-fishing with live bait (the most perfidious failing in the eyes of every fly fisher), hair-raising shark tales he picked up on the Sydney waterfront.". "Here too is a history of fishing going back to classical antiquity, along with meditations on the art and philosophy of fishing and deep draughts...

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