Casting into Mystery – Robert Reid Engravings By Wesley W. Bates.

Welcome to Casting into Mystery:

The website you are browsing is a tributary of an angling memoir of the same title I wrote in creative partnership with wood engraver Wesley W. Bates.

We are both enthusiastic fly anglers who share a passion for many of the ‘good’ things we associate with the contemplative recreation: nature and ecology, literature, art and music, malt whisky—to name but a few.

Although the memoir is, by necessity, about fly fishing, it is not necessarily about catching fish. Catching, of course, is an integral part of fishing, but it is not everything—at least when it pertains to fly fishing.

Or, more precisely, the kind of fly fishing Wes and I practice …

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