"From Pulitzer prize--winning author E. Annie Proulx to fly casting champion Joan Salvato Wulff, this anthology presents "a different angle" on the literature of fly fishing and its great tales of adventure, renewal, and discovery. Whether exploring the sensual and spiritual pleasures of casting a line or the realities of being female in the predominantly male world of fly fishing, the women in this collection write with humor, eloquence, and passion...

Thomas Henry Younker, the son of Frank Wyman and Nellie Metcalf Younker, was born in North Bend, Or., August 28, 1941. Thomas recalls family stories about his father and his mother, who was one-half Coquille Indian, educated at Chemawa Indian Boarding School; growing up on South Slough near Charleston on property his mother owned; being a three-sport athlete in high school, playing football and baseball at Linfield College, and signing with the Los...