Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World's Most Alluring Fish By Chris Dombrowski

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A poet’s memoir of taking an unplanned trip to the Bahamas and meeting a fishing guide who changed his life: “A splendid book.”—Jim Harrison in The New York Times Book Review Chris Dombrowski, a poet and passionate fly-fisher, had a second child on the way and an income hovering perilously close to zero when he received a miraculous email: can’t go, it’s all paid for, just book a flight to Miami. Thus began a journey that would eventually lead to the Bahamas and to David Pinder, a legendary bonefishing guide. Bonefish are prized for their elusiveness and their tenacity. And no one was better at hunting them than Pinder, a Bahamian whose accuracy and patience were virtuosic. He knows what the fish think, said one fisherman, before they think it. By the time Dombrowski meets him, though, Pinder has been abandoned by the industry he helped build. With cataracts from a lifetime of staring at the water and a tiny severance package after forty years of service, he watches as the world of his beloved bonefish is degraded by tourists he himself did so much to attract. But as Pinder’s stories unfold, Dombrowski discovers a profound integrity and wisdom in the bonefishing guide’s life. “A poet and Montana-based fly-fishing guide recounts his trip to the Bahamas, where he met an aging guide who taught him about fish and life…loosely links reflections on his experiences catching and releasing bonefish, the history and geography of the Bahamas, the construction of fishing rods, stories he has told his children, and the difference between fishing or hunting for sport and for dinner.”—Kirkus Reviews “Thematically complex, finely wrought, and profoundly life-affirming.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Dombrowski has worked some magic here, writing not just an expert nonfiction book about fishing and fishing guides, but a kind of incantation about guiding itself, about why local experts matter, about what it is, exactly, that they know about fish and about us. The subject of Body of Water is a legendary Bahamian guide named David Pinder, a religious man who has made a life taking other people out on the shallow flats off Grand Bahama in pursuit of bonefish, a large and elusive silvery gamefish considered a true test of fly-fishing skill. Over what seems like years of contact, Dombrowski peels open Pinder’s deep humility and his love for the ocean and its residents, a shocking, refreshing respect that has made him the guide’s guide, passing down his decades of quiet expertise to his many kids and relations, many of whom are also preachers, and even a bit to the author himself.Dombrowski is both a guide and a poet, and his descriptions of the ever-changing water and the fish themselves are transporting. But some of my other favorite parts are when he probes the politics of Pinder being a black guide to a club of rich, white “sports,” when he explores his faith, and when he confronts the conflict between the economic boon of bonefish, tarpon and permit fishing and the upscale development which is killing the mangroves and thus the fish, too. As is so often the case, the fishermen are those who end up determined to save the fish.“To hunt anything – game animals, morels, antler sheds, huckleberries – is to abjure commonplace diversions and dedicate oneself to the occupation of being creaturely,” Dombrowski writes. Since bonefishing is mostly catch-and-release (not that many rich people will eat them), the real pursuit is just to be in their presence. “Perhaps the heart of bonefishing is ecstatic, more like prayer,” he writes, “which makes the elusive fish a grace we intuit or perhaps even glimpse at the verge of sight, then probe toward via the faith we place in the cast.”He’s not fishing for food; he’s fishing for reassurance that he and the divine both belong to this earth. And that’s a hunt I want to go on every single time.

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