SUN JOURNAL • June 25, 2023
My office bookshelves are festooned with fishing books. Fishing books by Bob Mallard, of which there are now five, get top billing on my bookshelf. His latest book is a winner. Titled, “Fly Fishing Maine,” it is his best work to date. The bonus in this book is Bob Mallard’s comprehensive reporting about Maine’s angling history, fish species and conservation. Mallard, who is founder and president of the Native Fish Coalition and often called the “trout evangelist,” manages to keep an even strain on his known capacity to sermonize about the folly of stocking over native fish. ~ V. Paul Reynolds