Jeremy Paxman

Why do anglers get so hooked?

Mark Kurlansky’s latest book fails to capture the charm of fly fishing and relies too heavily on secondary sources

‘Man Fishing in a New England Stream’ by Winslow Homer. [Getty Images]

  • The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

    Mark Kurlansky

    Bloomsbury, pp. 304, £14

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