Marshall Craig
Author, Adequate Fly fisherman and casual observer
| You’ll Need a Guide is a humorous account, rich with reflection on the human condition, of guided fishing trips from the McCloud River of Northern California to the Middle Bight of Andros Island. It is the antidote to pictures in an Orvis catalog or a fly fishing magazine showing a brawny dude with perfect teeth wearing Simms gear, holding a rainbow the size of a small pig. Casual readers will enjoy the wry commentary. Fly fishermen will alternately groan with recognition and then belly laugh when the author struggles under a guide’s demanding eye. |
Book Summary
In six stories, Marshall Craig takes us on a journey from bonefish flats on Andros in the Bahamas, to a smallmouth bass stream in Missouri, to snook inhabited mangrove forests in the 10,000 Islands of Florida, and to the native rainbow-inhabited McCloud River of…
About The Author
Marshall Craig is a Yale University graduate and Wharton MBA who frittered much of his life away making a living and raising a family when he could have been fishing. You’ll Need a Guide is the product of a writing itch he first felt…
Reviews
Praise from the fly fishing world about You’ll Need a Guide “Great story… best written I’ve read, keeps your attention to the end.” – Bill Howard, Mars Bay Lodge, Andros “A real blast …funny stuff.” – Captain Kevin Mihailoff, Guide, Chokoloskee, Florida “… I…
Marshall Craig 