Watched carefully by their guides, anglers have been casting flies over the Miramichi River for at least a century and a half, hoping to catch the king of fish, the wily and fierce Atlantic salmon. Today’s guides are living encyclopedias, with techniques for canoeing, fishing and managing “sports” passed down from generation to generation. They are also men and women of the Miramichi — strong, kind and shrewd, and proud of their knack for yarn-spinning. No one knows Miramichi fishing guides like Wayne Curtis — he has been one himself for 37 years — and no one is more skillful at enticing guides to share their best stories. In River Guides of the Miramichi, he introduces more than 20 guides. With sensitivity and humour, he outlines their lives and — mainly in their own words — repeats their yarns. All the biographies are illustrated with photos of the guides, their canoes, rods and other equipment, the fishing camps where they work, and some of the “sports” they educate and entertain so vividly.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 799.1/1/092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-nk
- ISBN
- 9780864922243 9781459340084
- LCCN
- SH414
- LCCN Item number
- C87 1997eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaNSHD
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (186 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00215084 (OCoLC)288115758 (CaOOCEL)415466
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 12
- GUIDES AND GUESTS 14
- THE GUIDE 24
- ROY CURTIS 28
- JACK JARDINE 34
- PERCY MOUNTAIN 40
- JOHN BROPHY 48
- PAT BROPHY 54
- THE GUIDES OF CHARLIE WADE'S CAMP 62
- GUIDING JIM LORENTZ 66
- JIM COLFORD 72
- GORDON MUNN 76
- CLAYTON FORAN 82
- EUGENE HARRIS 86
- ERNEST J. LONG 94
- LLOYD WAUGH 102
- MAX GILLESPIE 108
- GUY SlLLIKER 114
- RALPH WARREN 124
- JOHN CURTIS 128
- VINCENT SWAZEY 138
- RENATE BULLOCK 144
- BILL MACKAY 148
- MERVIN GREEN 154
- CLAYTON ARTHUR STEWART 160
- MERLIN PALMER 164
- EVELOCK GlLKS 170
- GUIDING GENE HILL 174
- INDEX 180
- A 180
- B 180
- C 181
- D 182
- E 182
- F 182
- G 182
- H 183
- I 183
- J 183
- K 183
- L 183
- M 184
- N 184
- O 185
- P 185
- Q 185
- R 185
- S 185
- T 186
- U 186
- V 186
- W 186
- Z 187
