Book Signing
Scott Sadil, author of
“Fly Tales: Lessons in Fly Fishing Like the Real Guys"
Saturday, Aug. 28th
1:00 - 3: 00 pm at Waucoma Bookstore

Waucoma Bookstore is pleased to host Hood River author Scott Sadil for a book signing on Saturday, Aug. 28th at the bookstore (212 Oak St., Hood River). Sadil will be signing his outdoor book, "Fly Tales.”

About the Book
“Real Guys,” writes Scott Sadil in Fly Tales:  Lessons in Fly Fishing Like the Real Guys, his new collection of literary essays, “belong to an inner circle of expert anglers—men and women of rarefied gifts whose skills and knowledge and perhaps fortune of good breeding have positioned them in territory the rest of us can only glimpse or occasionally admire.”


But are Real Guys real? Or are they, asks Sadil, perhaps an ideal, an illusion, a fabrication in the minds of fly fishers who find themselves unable to avoid the kinds of failures and humiliations anglers everywhere have suffered since first tying flies to the ends of their lines?

Follow Sadil through more than three dozen essays, or “lessons,” as he aims for membership into that “cadre of insiders” who, he wants to believe, rarely if ever suffer the kinds of defeats that he has known all too well throughout his angling career.  In the tradition of fine literature from hearth, home, and afield, Sadil completes each lesson with his pattern, or recipe, for a fly that has proven integral to these gracefully articulated steps along his arduous journey to fish like a Real Guy.

On the heels of his popular and highly praised Lost in Wyoming, the collection of fiction that placed his name squarely among the best writers of contemporary outdoor literature, Scott Sadil’s Fly Tales:  Lessons in Fly Fishing Like the Real Guys again treats readers to the humor, insight, and distinguished prose of an author whose reputation grows with each  book. Whether new to fly fishing or an experienced hand—or simply a devoté of literary essays of the highest rank—readers of Fly Tales will find themselves both enlightened and entertained, while at the same time offered invitation into the fabled circle of Real Guys—“secret practioners who beguile fish, especially trout, with the flair of stooping harriers.”

About the Author
Scott Sadil grew up surfing and fishing in southern California. He is the author of three previous books, the collection of stories Lost in Wyoming, the memoir Angling Baja and the novel Cast from the Edge.  Throughout his career his stories and essays have appeared in the outdoor press. The recipient of a Fishtrap fellowship, he lives with his family in Hood River, Oregon, where he writes, teaches, and navigates a fishing life.