Not very close to anywhere to fish these days, I enjoyed reading book to experience it vicariously, while simutaneously being entertained with stories about history and Scotland! Armchair will enjoy this book as well as anglers, I plan to visit Scotland in the not too distant future and feel like I have already visited. It's a nice review to the country of my ancestors!

⭐⭐⭐⭐ -- Love the cover on this one!

I have been reading this one off and on for a while now. It's the type of book that is perfect for before sleep reading. Beautifully written and engaging, you can tell the author is passionate about fishing. His vivid descriptions of places and people really immerse you in the stories. This book was just a delight to experience. 👍🏻👍🏻

**ARC Via NetGalley**

Even I know nothing about salmon fishing, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this memoir. The author, now in his 70’s, looks back on his life and the importance that salmon fishing played in his family. I learned more than I would ever think there was to know about fishing, the rivers in Scotland, and the types os salmon. I felt like I was listening to a favorite uncle recount past adventures

This is the type of book I like to read when I want to set my mind to relax mode: it's well written, there's great descriptions of places, and stories of fishing life.
It was a delightful and entertaining read.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Andrew Douglas-Home shares the story of his life through a series of vignettes. He combines his memores of his life and Salmon fishing along the Tweed River. I will start by sharing that I am probably not the target audience for this novel. There were several things I enjoyed but quite a few other things that didn't click.

I will start with what I liked. Douglas-Home does a brilliant job of describing locations and people that came through his life. He created a vivid picture and I could see the great adventures he had fishing. I also appreciated how he split his story up into four segments. Connecting the seasons of his life, the seasons of the year, and the life of a spawning fish. It worked to create a nice segue through the story.

And now for the negative. I had a lot of time being invested in the story when all of the memories/vignettes were so brief and disconnected. There would be such a great character introduced and within a paragraph, we would be off that memory and on to something else. That, combined with the constant discussion on how many fish he caught on random days, made the story hard to get through.

I want to state again that I am not the target audience of this story and if it sounds interesting, then give it a try.

This book was a delight to read. A culmination of Scottish tradition and family that echoed through my own past. The way that the experience is written really tells to the soul.