Fishing Season by Philip Weigall

Fishing Season is the latest book by one of Australasia’s foremost flyfishing authors, Philip Weigall.

Fishing Season, described by Sir Robert Jones as "a truly lovely book, beautifully made and presented and reminiscent of the craftsmanship one associates with 19th century book publishing..."  is a celebration of all that is great about fly fishing.

‘It’s simultaneously a brutal and beautiful scene, carnage and life, and although I release most of my catch, in a way I’m part of it. For a moment I think of people who don’t fish, and feel sorry for them.’ Philip Weigall…

This beautiful book is a great addition to all angler's library.

Philip Weigall lives with his partner and two young sons near Ballarat, Victoria. He is a flyfishing guide and instructor at Millbrook Lakes, and otherwise fishes and travels as often as he can. Philip has been writing regularly on all things flyfishing for twenty years and is presently a columnist and feature writer for Freshwater Fishing magazine, and editor of Flyfisher magazine. Fishing Season is his sixth book.

Philip Weigall deftly captures all that makes flyfishing a passion for so many. It is an engrossing read that captures the heart and soul of this pastime that is so full of challenges, victories, disappointments, frustrations but, most of all, quiet happiness.

It ponders such important questions as why you invariably never have the right fly at the right time, how you only ever lose new pieces of equipment, and why sometimes the unlikeliest waters have the most to offer.

"As the name suggests, Fishing Season spans the highs and lows, the hot and cold of a year onthe streams and creeks, rivers and oceans of Philip's memory" "...it a journey from boy to fisherman"

"Fishing Season is an education, and an inspiration".

Grant Fraser

The full review can be read in the magazine FlyLife, Number 57, Spring 2009 available from magazine outlets and booksellers in Austrasia and New Zealand (see page 80).

"Let me say at the outset, it is a truly lovely book, beautifully made and presented and reminiscent of the craftsmanship one associates with 19th century book publishing..."

"Weigall holds the readers interests with all sorts of pertinent diversions, written in an easy chatty manner. I enjoyed reading it and have no doubt Fishing Season would be an appreciated gift for any fisherman. Highly Recommended"

- Sir Robert Jones