Opening Days by Richard Chiappone Reel is an angler's guide to

is an angler's guide to marine warm-water gamefish and their habitat

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he penned the Entomology column for American Angler magazine for thirty years

[John Gierach] is still a master” (Forbes)

Opening Days by Richard Chiappone Reel is an angler's guide toWith this eclectic collection of essays, short stories, and poems, Richard Chiappone elongates the fishing writing genre like a perfect backcast, suggesting that he finds almost anything a fisherman does interesting anything but the actual fishing. He describes only one sport fish landed a late season Alaskan steelhead too cold to put up a fuss about being hooked. In another piece, he never gets any farther than his own backyard, standing in a