The Angler’s Coast (reprint)| Russell Chatham | new introduction by Tim Cahill | new afterword by Stephen Collector | ISBN 9781948509756 | $21.95 | Coming October, 2026
Once great, always great. Happy to bring this book back to print just like we did for his classic Dark Waters
Chatham is an evocative, skilled writer.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Some angling writers have traveled the world over in search of big fish, Chatham has cruised.”
—Thomas McGuane
“This book is by a fisherman who can write. Any writer can fish, but that doesn’t mean he ever catches anything other than the occasional finny idiot that happens to be in the wrong places at the wrong time.”
—Ted Trueblood
“Chatham’s one of the best angling writers in action today. I luxuriated in the his brilliant, sensitive descriptions of the West Coast and its fishing.”
—Nelson Bryant, The New York Times
“Everything in nature is essentially inscrutable,” claims Russell Chatham in The Angler’s Coast, but his written observations of the world around him are as evocative as his painted landscapes. Chatham is a fly fisherman, and his coast stretches from San Francisco north to British Columbia. Whether salmon with the legendary Bill Schaadt on the Smith River, or seeking herring on a slow day in Tomales Bay, the author is consistently incisive and amusing, and he brings a naturalist’s eye to bear on the increasingly fragile condition of the water he surveys. This new release features an introduction by Tim Cahill and an afterword by Stephen Collector.