Critical Praise

"Feel sorry for Ed Morrison. He taught his wife Carol to fly fish, never tumbling to the fact that what she really had in mind wasn't a fish but this great book."

——Virgil Rupp, The East Oregonian

" If Patrick McManus was from the South and a woman and a psychotherapist and a closet preacher who was lousy at fishing but still fished and didn't care, and was fiercely fond of married life despite striking out at it twice and prayed the third time was the charm…I guess she wouldn't be Patrick McManus. But she would know the pleasure of having written a book as amiable and gentle-hearted as Carol Morrison's Catching On."

——David James Duncan, author, The River Why and My Story as Told By Water

"Few books lend themselves to reading out loud, even fewer have the depth, wisdom and wit of Catching On. I read Carol's book out loud to my husband and we cherished it. Catching On is a treasure. Don't miss it."

——Jane Kirkpatrick, author of Every Fixed Star and A Name of Her Own

"This is a wonderfully written, feel-good love story, not so much about the love of fishing but of loving fishermen and their magnificent obsession…. This book could save marriages."

——Paul Quinett, Ph.D., author of Pavlov's Trout, Darwin's Bass and Fishing Lessons

Winner of the 2003 Jim Angell Award, a national award for the best first book by a Presbyterian writer "A wife learns the fly-fish song."

——Gray's Sporting Journal

"…the ultimate catch-and-release epic in which she comes to grip with his fly fishing and learns to release him, gently, to this watery passion. A wonderfully warm and ofttimes funny book."

——John Hahn, Seattle Post Intelligencer