Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, December 5, 1994 TAG: 9501170002
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BILL COCHRAN OUTDOOR EDITOR
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
What is the prettiest outdoor spot in Virginia?
Mount Rogers in Grayson County? Red Oak Mountain in Highland County? Deltaville on the Chesapeake Bay? Pinnacle Natural Area Preserve in Russell County?
Those are a few that come to mind when you ask Garvey and Dean Winegar. All of them, and scores more, are highlighted in their new book, which covers Virginia's outdoor wonders from the mile-high mountains of the west to the marshes of Eastern Shore.
"I thought I knew Virginia fairly well until I started researching this book, and we found out there were places that I just didn't know existed," said Garvey Winegar, who writes an outdoor column for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Deane Winegar is a wildlife photographer. Several of the pen-and-ink drawings in the book are adaptations from her pictures, a fact the publisher failed to credit.
"Virginia is so incredibly and beautifully diverse," said Garvey Winegar. "It is like going to about four different countries. Virginians need to prowl around a little bit and discover these things."
That pleasant task is made easier by the book, which takes readers up trails and down streams, with numerous personal tips from the authors and facts that include handy details, such as highway directions and phone numbers.
The book is available in book stores or may be ordered from the publisher by calling (800) 729-9179.
VIRGINIA TROUT STREAMS: A GUIDE TO FISHING THE BLUE RIDGE WATERSHED, SECOND EDITION. By Harry Slone. Backcountry Publications. $15.
The best things about Harry Slone's book is the directions it provides for finding trout streams across the state. You've hear about places such as Benson Run and Buffalo River, but where are they?
A Roanoke author and fly angler, Slone not only gives highway routes, but also little tidbits like, "Even though it's a dirt road, there's a solid stone base that should provide good traction even after a rain." There are maps, too.
The second edition of "Virginia Trout Streams" has been revised and expanded. In it, Slone reveals his discovery of several new streams, including Laurel Fork in Highland County, where he found "healthy, chunky, tail-walking brook trout, bright orange to the tips of their fins."
There is a new chapter on fishing streams along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and there is a sad note, too, about how acidity has taken some streams out of action, and out of Slone's book.
The Second Edition is available at the Orvis Shop in Roanoke, at bookstores or from the publisher at (800) 245-4151.
GAME WARDEN ENTERTAINMENT. By Frank G. Mundy. Mundy Publications. $12.95.
There have been some complaints about Frank Mundy's new book. Like from the deer hunter who stuffed a copy into his knapsack and took it to his stand.
"I couldn't have killed nothing even it anything came by," he said. "I sat up there and laughed my head off."
Another hunter didn't like the white book cover, because every time he heard someing approach his stand he had to hide the book. Maybe a Trebark cover next time?
Mundy is a state game warden training sergeant who has worked the Rockingham, Shenandoah, Page county area for years, enforcing game and fish laws and collecting a bevy of stories about the characters he has encountered.
In a self-published volume, he presents more than two-dozen yarns in a folksy style of interest to outdoorsmen who like to watch for deer or cast for freshly stocked trout.
"With your own stories, you only are restricted by the truth," said Mundy.
Autographed copies can be order from Mundy at P.O. Box 22, Broadway, 22815 for $12.95 plus $3.50 shipping.
HERON HILL CHRONICLER. By George Reiger. Lyons & Burford, Publishers. $19.95
This is yet another chronicle about a guy giving up a lucrative career in the big city for life on a farm. The farm, in this case, is 67 acres on Virginia's Eastern Shore, and the writer is the feisty conservation editor of Field & Stream Magazine.
While the theme is timeworn, Reiger brings it off - his 16th book - as a very personal and loving account of living in a place where time is measured in seasons, not seconds.
Among the rich portraits of a coastal farm are numerous and honest lessons about land use and conservation, often from an outdoorsman equally fascinated by birding and hunting.
Here's the story of an man who bought the farm and lived to tell about it in the spirit of Aldo Leopold.
by CNB