Belgian Flats

Belgian Flats is the story of a fly-fishing guide named Cody who's hit a career dead-end after a dozen years guiding on a famed western trout stream. Cody's mysterious and bombastic mentor, JD, suggests that Cody take a job as a lodget manager at a prestigious Atlantic salmon lodge in northwestern Russia. The story follows Cody's travels to the Kola Peninsula and his encounters with the characters that filter through-from Oxbridge professors who can't cast, to philosophizing oligarchs, to Sami herdsmen who are not above kidnapping lodge staff to maintain control of their historic lands. There's even a love interest. Belgian Flats provides an offbeat and humorous insider's view of the fly-fishing world that angling aficionados will appreciate.