Mending Lines is a collection of non-fiction, fiction and poems woven around a central theme of fly fishing. There are accounts of fishing on lochs, lakes, rivers, and streams from the author's experiences fishing in the wilds of Scotland and Wales. The fiction includes stories of time travelling conservationists, a suspicious death on the Taff, a supernatural fly box and a crossover of parallel lives in a remote mountain bothy.
Mending Lines is not a book about how I fish, it’s about why I fish described in an illustrated collection of thirty eight stories and poems. Some of the stories are autobiography, some are fiction. All are about fly fishing in one way or another, the places it has taken me, and the experiences gained. In writing the book I’ve tried to convey how much fly fishing means to me and how at various points fishing and writing have enhanced and mended my life.
