Set throughout the vast North Woods that stretches through northern Maine and New Hampshire, with a few detours along the way, RIVER FLOWERS is a collection of short stories about wild fish and the men and women who seek them out. With a touch of heart, soul, and a sense of place, these stories take the reader to a special world where one can smell the scent of balsam on a summer morning, marvel at the sun setting upon a backwoods pond, and feel the rush of a river while wading against its current.

Reviews

“Lyrical, poignant, and sometimes fantastical angling tales from the Maine woods and beyond, written in the great story-telling tradition of Sparse Gray Hackle and Robert Traver. Put this one in your creel and take it home with you.”—Stephen Sautner, author of
 A Cast in the Woods and Fish On, Fish Off.

“Bob Romano’s remembrances of his times in Maine’s backwoods ... is both heartwarming and inspiring. His tales...will capture a reader’s imagination.”—Mike Valla, winner of the Poul Jorgensen Golden Hook Award and author of The Founding Flies and Tying Catskill-Style Dry Flies as well as other books concerning fly fishing.

“Bob Romano takes his readers back to those places he loves deeply; the dark forests of balsam and spruce, the tea-colored waters of streams and rivers, the cries of the loon, the land of the Abenaki.”—Henry Ramsey, Fly tyer, photographer, fly fishing lecturer and instructor, and author of Matching Major Eastern Hatches, New Patterns For Selective Trout