This new and expanded edition of An Angler’s Astoria is a reflective and exuberant collection of stories and essays about Hughes’ home water near Astoria, Oregon. There is a new preface and a substantive, previously unpublished piece, Life Cycles. His views on conservation are especially refreshing with a depth of historical perspective and a clean line of reasoning that will grab your understanding f irst, then your emotions. John Gierach An Angler’s Astoria contains many lessons, the kind you come by honestly, if you grow up fishing a place you learn to love. Seth Norman, California Fly Fisher