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He hoisted Marlin onto his shoulders, and we walked under the drizzle to Pont Neuf and down to the Place du Vert Galant over wet cobbles to the tip Ile de la Cite. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are two islands in the river here in Paris,\" Pierre explained, \"Ile St. Louis and Ile de la Cite. These are the two best places to fish. When the river is in flood, the fish stack up in the eddy downstream of the island where the current is broken. There are probably five hundred bream here. They especially don't like current, and at times the big silure come to feed on them. You would not believe, but you will see! They open their giant mouths and eat a four-pound bream whole. While you were skiing, my friends Jean-Pierre and Guy hooked eight off Ile St. Louis. They landed one that was about thirty kilos and lost one they said would have been nearly fifty - that's over 110 pounds!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWest of where we stood was the metal bridge, the Passrail des Arts., on the left bank the Musee d'Orsay, on the right the Louvre. Downstream were Ile St. Louis and Notre Dame Cathedral, whose bells then indicated it was well into the afternoon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the most beautiful pool in the world,\" Pierre said, passing Marlin to me as he climbed over a rail, \"and the fishing gets better every year. The Seine was very polluted in the sixties and the only fish that lived here, if any, were carp and eel. Now there are thirty-eight species in downtown Paris. I only started catching silure two years ago, small ones. This is the first year we have caught such monsters.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And you eat them?\" I asked Pierre. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre looked at me through his glasses, raising his gnomish nose and scratching his wavy hair. \"Oh yes, we eat them,\" he smiled as if to assure me that I would eat them too. \"The Seine is clean; my friend Andre insists that in a year or two he will swim in it. The source of the river in Burgundy is a spring-fed trout stream. We will fish it in May and we hope to find a nice hatch of mayfly. Both Francois and Vincent have access to excellent trout fishing on the haute Seine.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Did salmon ever run up the Seine?\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, of course, all the rivers draining to the Atlantic in France had salmon. The run in the Seine was magnificent. The last one caught in Paris was in 1956.\" Pierre stopped to carry Marlin up the steps to Pont Neuf again by the statue of Henry IV. \"Well, who knows,\" he continued, \"maybe we will get one tomorrow morning. Maybe Guy and Jean-Pierre can join us. We'll fish until about nine in the morning, and then we must go and set up for the fly-fishing exhibition.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat night, I slept wrapped in a wool blanket on the floor of Pierre's office. At eight he knocked on the door, came in with his key, and woke me. \"Well, we slept too late, \" he said standing over me, \"but that's ok, I think. We have a long day ahead.\" He looked at his watch. \"Let's walk down to Ile St. Louis anyway, to see if Guy and Jean-Pierre caught anything. We'll leave the rods behind this morning.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre and I walked along the Seine on the Quai des Orfevres to the facade of a newly renovated Notre Dame Cathedral, dim and ominous in the morning light. \"They are wonderful fishermen, these guys,\" Pierre told me of Guy and Jean-Pierre. \"I met them four years ago fishing on Ile de la Cite. One of them had caught a ten-kilo zander. I couldn't believe it! So I started to follow them and fish with them and made a small film of their fishing. I gave Guy a cell pone to call me if they caught a big fish, and I would ride my bicycle down to the river with my camera. I got them sponsorships through American fishing tackle manufacturers, so they now have good free equipment. They mostly fish with worms and they are very skilled. 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Few individuals, for example, have the visual acuity required to catch the nearly invisible bonefish of the Bahamas flats. Or the patience to land the elusive Atlantic salmon, “the fish of a thousand casts,” in eastern Canada. Pursuing these challenges, Coggins, “a confirmed obsessive,” travels to one fishing paradise after another, including the great rivers of Patagonia, private chalk streams in England, remote ponds in Maine, and New York City’s Jamaica Bay. In each setting, he chronicles his fortunes and misfortunes with honesty and humor while meditating on how fishing teaches focus, inner stillness, and a connection to the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for the novice, the enthusiastic amateur, and the devoted angler alike, The Optimist offers a practical path toward enlightenment while providing a welcome escape into one of the world’s ancient pastimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout David Coggins\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Coggins is the author of Men and Manners and the New York Times bestseller Men and Style. He writes about fly fishing for Robb Report and tailoring, drinking, and travel for numerous publications, including the Financial Times, Bloomberg Pursuits, and Condé Nast Traveler. Coggins lives in New York and fishes regularly in the Catskills, Wisconsin, and Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003ePublisher: Scribner (May 4, 2021)\u003cbr\u003eLength: 256 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN13: 9781982152505\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePress \u0026amp; Follow\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/05\/10\/fly-fishing-with-the-author-of-the-optimist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"width: 201px;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/608c96212864275d8a08600b\/master\/w_2560%2Cc_limit\/210510_r38335illuweb.jpg\" height=\"278\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: left;\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"social-media\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"with-margin-bottom-medium\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Anyone interested in fly fishing or curious how the sport could possibly be of interest to anyone should hop to David Coggins’s excellent \u003ci\u003eThe Optimist.\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Immersive, true, pitch-perfect, and a soon-to-be classic. 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What’s more, I’d given up on fishing, I don’t know why—maybe the world was too much with me; okay, let’s just say I’ve been preoccupied with ephemera rather than the eternal, which is what fly-fishing makes one confront. I closed this last chapter and said hell or high water, I was going to get back to the rivers and streams I’ve missed. There’s much to fall in love with in this world, and this book reminded me of that.”  \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDoug Stanton, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHorse Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Optimist\u003c\/i\u003e is a rueful, thoughtful and very funny examination of an elegant obsession. Coggins does a terrific job of evoking the joys of fly fishing and also the frustrations, which are inextricably linked.  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The only way back to civilization was over the Sredinny mountain range, whose peaks rose to more than eleven thousand feet. The pilot tapped his watch to urge one last passenger on board, but Guido Rahr refused. Inside the helicopter the group was getting restless. Their fuel was limited and the weather was shifting. What was the holdup? The men conferred loudly over the thrum of the whirling rotor. What was going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn bush flying, it’s said that if you can get the doors of a helicopter closed, it will fly. The Mi-­8 had two powerful turbine engines and was built for the toughest conditions. But with the weight of the gear and a section of heavy oil-drilling pipe, the chopper’s wheels had sunk into the soft meadow soil and the fuselage was resting on the ground. The battered old helicopter with its oil-­streaked hull looked too much like a death trap. Guido turned away from the distressing sight to study the weather. The gathering of low clouds forced his decision. He marched resolutely to the helicopter and squeezed himself in with the others. It would be a tragedy for the group and their invaluable data to perish on the return trip, but what choice did they have? The doors closed—­barely. The passengers sat grimly along the sides of the fuselage, trapped by the mountain of gear around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong them were elite fly fishermen and some of Russia’s and America’s top scientists. Together they had explored one of Russia’s many untouched salmon rivers on the peninsula of Kamchatka. Somewhere in the chopper sprigs of vegetation and river water floated in tubes and canisters of liquid nitrogen preserved fish scales and fin clippings. Packed away in waterproof bags were notebooks that held sketches and topographical measurements. Together, these gathered bits described an immense ecosystem Americans hadn’t known existed. It was an ecosystem based on salmon. If they made it home, the team of scientists could help to change the way people saw salmon and their rivers forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe difficulty was in reaching this remote region, and in getting back home again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuido settled himself among his companions. Churning at full throttle, the turbine could barely lift them. It groaned and trembled before heaving itself upward, then rose slowly above the forest, sending leaves and branches whirling. The pilot dropped the nose of the chopper and headed south, flying so low over the forest that the branches seemed to brush the bottom of the craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey stayed low for a hundred miles, flying over the Kolpakova, Varavskaya, and Kol rivers. Through the windows the passengers could glimpse a vast landscape of forests, rivers, and mountains. The Sea of Okhotsk glittered to the west. To the east were mountain slopes dusted with the first snow of winter. Below were hills blanketed in a gold-­and-­orange mosaic of stone birch and river valleys marked by still-green bands of cottonwood and alder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuido had a view of the cockpit. The pilot was on the left, the navigator on the right, and the mechanic in the middle. It boded well that all three had some gray hair, and likely were veteran Russian pilots who had fought in the Afghan war. The pilot was looking for a break in the peaks. Guido watched his stoic face in half-­profile as he decided on a route and headed straight toward the base of the mountain range. As the land began to rise, the pilot held his course. The chopper seemed ready to kiss the earth when the air pressure from the blades meeting the ground pushed it aloft. A few hundred yards later they were heading straight back into the mountain again, this time barely missing a copse of pines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo one spoke as they stair-­stepped up the mountain. Each passenger was sealed in his own isolation. Not all of them could see what was happening, but they could feel it. The chopper was hopping lamely from forest to tundra to snowpack. As they climbed higher, the engines labored in the thinning air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuido watched through the cockpit as the volcanic ridge above them approached. The vegetation below had given way to rock, snow, and ice. When they broke through the clouds, Guido got a partial view of two jagged rocky peaks with a slight dip in between, defined by a long ridge of windblown snow. The final precipice rose before them like a wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the top of the ridge was a thin cornice of snow, as sharp as a razor. The helicopter throbbed and whined as it reached the summit. Then, they were through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other side of the mountain gave way to a thousand feet of vertical cliff. When the ground beneath them disappeared, the helicopter tipped over the cornice and fell. As the Mi-­8 rolled slightly to the left, the cargo began to slide. One of the American passengers stood up and yelled “Oh shit!” and was immediately restrained by the Russian next to him. Any further destabilization could put them into a roll.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the helicopter fell, its roar and groan were replaced by silence. The men felt weightless as the rotors thumped against the gravity of their descent. Long seconds passed as the blades slowly caught purchase in the thin air and stabilized the chopper. Gradually, it moved forward as well as down, arcing out across the mountain range into the broad valley of the Kamchatka River and the city of Petropavlovsk beyond. Guido strained to see the rivers below. He recognized these transporters of fish as living organisms now, and wanted to observe the idiosyncrasies of their design, where their flow was pinched by canyons, where they curved back on themselves, and where they spread across the plains like light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf the many trips to Russia that followed, some would be to Moscow, to do battle behind the walls of the Kremlin. His battle would hurtle him into one of the most formidable, complicated, and unpredictable countries in the world. To protect these perfect rivers, he needed knowledge, money, and power. And he needed them in ­Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the next twenty years and twenty-five expeditions, Guido would harness the power of oligarchs and billionaires on two continents to protect vast swaths of pristine wilderness and do more than any man alive to make the United States and Russia realize they were joint custodians of a massive watershed ecosystem held in place by salmon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was the salmon that had brought Guido to the fight. He had chased them for most of his life and seemed to take instruction from their wildness, their resilience, and their unwavering purpose. Perhaps the salmon, with their epic migrations and unflagging determination to live, inspired him to choose a course that even those closest to him could sometimes not believe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt had all started long ago, on the other end of the Pacific Rim, with a wayward towheaded boy and his fishing rod on a river in Oregon. A boy who, from the start, was uncommon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcerpted from\u003cb\u003e \u003ca id=\"LPlnk168318\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_Stronghold-2DMans-2DQuest-2DWorlds-2DSalmon_dp_1984801694_ref-3Dsr-5F1-5F1-3Fcrid-3D35CMIWTHXWYH0-26keywords-3Dstronghold-2Bby-2Btucker-2Bmalarkey-26qid-3D1563823087-26s-3Dgateway-26sprefix-3Dstronghold-2Bby-2Btu-252Caps-252C145-26sr-3D8-2D1\u0026amp;d=DwMGaQ\u0026amp;c=U0G0XJAMhEk_X0GAGzCL7Q\u0026amp;r=NE28AgNnfxfB7d1ElY1Tew\u0026amp;m=SaKBeO2-7GzowxBzElpLakTA7UdDczVHm0QJXbsJZJs\u0026amp;s=j0jFs_SE4j54TwpHIe8kYlsJ107h82PAustSzf0Ts5w\u0026amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\"\u003eSTRONGHOLD\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eby Tucker Malarkey. Copyright © 2019 by Tucker Malarkey. Excerpted by permission of Spiegel \u0026amp; Grau, A Penguin Random House Company. All rights reserved. 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