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Editor's note; If you can
read the titles in Table of Contents below, sample the two
chapters in our fly fishing section and not buy you don't deserve
it,
 “Good Old Guys, Alibis and Outright Lies”
is Bob Scammell’s selection of his best humor pieces from 30
years of outdoor writing. Although he does the serious stuff,
too, Scammell believes outdoors people are far too serious about
things that other people find ridiculous who only have their own
word for it that they, themselves, are sane. Here Scammell tells
the tragic stories of the victims of outdoors addictions: moose
hunting, ice fishing and fly tying. There is much in “Good
Old Guys Alibis and Outright Lies” of the unnatural world:
horses, huntin’ uncles, fishin’ cats, good old farm
boys and other wild creatures. But no outdoors book would be
complete without some of that great how-to- stuff, and “Good
Old Guys, Alibis and Outright Lies” is full of it: how to
get (and stay) lost, how to get permission and how to beg
forgiveness if you don’t, how to give up chewing snoose,
even how Scammell taught his Dad to fish.
Outdoors humorist Bob Jones, who won the
1995 Book Award of The Outdoor Writers of Canada for his
“Tangled Lines and Patched Waders,” says of
Scammell’s new book: “This lexicon of alibis,
fabrications and downright distortions of the truth can be
adapted for personal use, guaranteeing you will never again be
without an excuse, no matter how illogical, for failures afield
or afloat.”
Table of
Contents
Good Old Guys
Tracking Laughter: An
Introduction
How I started the Guv Fishing Again and Went to Hell, Maybe
My Outdoors Career
Paying those Huntin' Uncle Dooz
Alberta, Jugheads and Me
Vested Interests
Zero Impact Logging
It's fishing--Cats and Dogs!
Serious What-Tail Bizness
Down on the Farm Boys
The Guv's Old Tackle Box
Alibis
Gunner's Alibi
Pheasant Fillosopher
How to Eschew Snoose
Jigger's Elbow, Fly Tier's Finger and Other Outdoor Afflications
Bonasa Days--Grousing in Paradise
Miracle Moose and Mal Demise
Getting Found Out
There's No Free Mutt
The Cuzif Comundrum (A Bluffer's Guide to Gutting)
How to Get Permission
Outright Lies
How to Beg
Forgiveness
Truth in Angling
I and the egg (Caviar Emptor, Ernie)
Surviving the Wild Auction
Hard Water Porn
The Where-to of How-to
Hunting the Moggie
Reasonable Moose vs. Moron in a Hurry
Stalking the Wild Bargerian (Or the Fifteen Loonie
Misunderstanding)
Advanced Tie Flying
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