Conrad Voss Bark, the wittiest observer of the fishing scene, has written a book which will strike a chord with all anglers. This collection of essays - some have appeared in The Times, but many are new - touches on the remarkable, fascinating, absurd and moving aspects of that most absorbing pastimes: flyfishing….Alas, our opportunities to fish are all too few. But so powerfully does this book evoke those heady days of hatching mayfly (not to mention the pain of impairing oneself on a barbed hook!) that reading is a wonderful substitute for the real thing.