Fireside Enviro. Speaker Series: Mark Kurlansky in conversation with Ryan Stahl

  • 13 May 2021
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Virtual Meeting over Zoom
  • 18

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Mark Kurlansky in conversation with Ryan Stahl

The Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club is honored to host celebrated author Mark Kurlansky at a Special Fireside Environmental Speaker Series Event.  Kurlansky is the author of thirty-four books, including New York Times bestsellers Cod, Salt, 1968, and Food of a Younger Land.  Kurlansky will participate in a question and answer talk regarding his most recent book, The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing.

Fly fishing, historian Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char; and for some, bass, tarpon, tuna, bonefish, and even marlin--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky learns, is that fly fishing makes catching a fish as difficult as possible. There is an art, too, in the crafting of flies. Beautiful and intricate, some are made with more than two dozen pieces of feather and fur from a wide range of animals. The cast as well is a matter of grace and rhythm, with different casts and rods yielding varying results.

Kurlansky is known for his deep dives into the history of specific subjects, from cod to oysters to salt. But he spent his boyhood days on the shore of a shallow pond. Here, where tiny fish weaved under a rocky waterfall, he first tied string to a branch, dangled a worm into the water, and unleashed his passion for fishing. Since then, a lifelong love of the sport has led him around the world to many countries, coasts, and rivers--from the wilds of Alaska to Basque country, from the Catskills in New York to Oregon's Columbia River, from Ireland and Norway to Russia and Japan. And, in true Kurlansky fashion, he absorbed every fact, detail, and anecdote along the way.

The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing marries Kurlansky's signature wide-ranging reach with a subject that has captivated him for a lifetime--combining history, craft, and personal memoir to show readers, devotees of the sport or not, the necessity of experiencing nature's balm first-hand.




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