The Angler's Field Journal

“Is not this worth all my labour and your patience?”

— Izaak Walton

That trout was landed some 370 years ago, but the question remains.

The Angler’s Field Journal offers 150 lined pages for recording the flies that worked, the pools that didn’t, the brown that rose and reconsidered, the weather, the water, and anything else worth remembering before the particulars get away from you.

The wraparound cover pairs a magnificent vintage trout engraving with an old pastoral fishing scene and words from Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler. First published in 1653, Walton’s book has been read, quoted, carried, and loved by generations of anglers… less a manual for catching fish than a celebration of everything that happens while attempting to do so.

On the back, another excerpt, perhaps one of the most poignant:

“He that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself.”

The deskbound angler may find those qualities useful, too.

Perforated pages make it easy to tear out anything requiring closer examination, fishing-related or otherwise.

Details

• 5.75″ × 8″

• 150 lined pages (75 sheets)

• Perforated pages for easy tear-out

• Matte laminated hardcover

• Full wraparound printed design

• Casewrap binding with a flexible sewn spine

• Printed and fulfilled in the U.S.