by Leigh Seippel | Aug 5, 2022 | Author Discussion of Ruin Origins
Really looking at any trout is difficult. Sculptures from photo of released taiman,Atlantic Salmon and rainbow trout From above to bird predators the always dark backs look like shadow lines in their streambed rock jumbles. To bankside observers, on four feet or on...
by Leigh Seippel | Aug 4, 2022 | Author Discussion of Ruin Origins
Frank’s challenge water The only fully imagined fishing episode in Ruin is at the English carp lake. It is where Aldous Huxley’s stunningly mordant 1939 novel After Many a Summer Dies the Swan is partly set. The small lake has held long-lived carp since it was...
by Leigh Seippel | Aug 3, 2022 | Author Discussion of Ruin Origins
releasing a taiman in Mongolia Ruin resulted from hearing a bankruptcy lawyer mention a heart-breaking case where he could not help a couple who lost everything in a large, litigious bankruptcy. And hearing how hard it was on the marriage since the wife was a naïve...
by Leigh Seippel | Aug 2, 2022 | Author Discussion of Ruin Origins
with son Alex in Connemara,Ireland For a decade my pal Barnaby Conrad III and I wrote and published The Royal Coachman, an eccentric fly fishing travel journal equally focused on good sport and good creature comforts. We turned a little profit every year, advertising...
by Leigh Seippel | Aug 1, 2022 | Author Discussion of Ruin Origins
In Patagonia, Argentina, not foulhooked this time In Ruin Frank takes the man who bankrupted him fishing on a Guatemalan jungle river. But not fly fishing. By then in Part Three Frank has been traveling itinerantly in research for his book about unorthodox fishing...
