Blue Lines: A Fishing Life

by Tom Reed

Blue Lines is about fishing small streams in the Rocky Mountain West. It follows one man's life from Colorado childhood streams to Montana high country creeks. Blue Lines is filled with superbly told fishing stories, and it shows us fishing as a healer, fishing as common ground between adversaries, and fishing as a way to escape the travails of the mundane.

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2010

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Reviews

[Andrew Wayment · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has everything you could want from a fishing book, small creeks, high mountain lakes, and the monster fish that got away. I really enjoyed the author's sparse, but succinct prose. Most of the chapters are written in present tense so you feel as if you're there with the author. The stories are great from the beginning chapter about the book's title to the story about how Tom made a friend of a bully through his skill with a fly rod. As I read, I thought I can't wait to read a book about bird dogs and upland bird hunting by this author.