If you’ve found a gleaming yet empty device under the tree that promises an open door into digital reading, then we have two new fly fishing ebooks (and more on the way) that’ll help you get started. 

These two saltwater classics by Jeffrey Cardenas were originally published by Meadow Run Press and sold through multiple hardbound editions before eventually lapsing from print. There are a few of those original copies still for sale in the secondary market, but they’ll cost you more camels and guineas than you may want to spend on a book, even a really cool fishing book.

Through the marvel of modern technology, however, we’ve partnered with Jeffrey to dust off these two fine books and deliver them to the (digital) masses.

Marquesa
A Time & Place With Fish

On August 1, 1994, Jeffrey Cardenas boarded a homemade houseboat and puttered out of Key West harbor toward a cluster of islands on the distant horizon.

The Marquesas rest near the western terminus of The Florida Keys where two great oceans meet in a swirl of perpetual current. Jeffrey’s plan was to spend a full cycle of the summer moon, alone, in this remote and idyllic atoll where he once made a living guiding fly casters for tarpon, permit, and bonefish.

With meager provisions, a library of books, a skiff, and his fly rods, Jeffrey immersed himself, literally, in a warm and salty realm where the vertical span between the seafloor and high ground is measured in inches. His daily ritual was determined by the tides. He fished, he read, he observed, and he wrote.

With an angler’s instinct and the eye of a naturalist, Cardenas returned to Key West after his six-week sabbatical and completed one of the definitive literary works of that era. If you have an affinity for saltwater fly fishing, Marquesa will change the way you observe and value the fish, birds, and marine life of our coastal flats and estuaries.

eBook $9.99 

Buy from Amazon.com*
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*Note: iPad users can purchase and download this book from Amazon by installing the free Kindle App on their device.

Sea Level
Adventures of a Saltwater Angler

From Montauk to the Yucatan and beyond, Jeffrey Cardenas, acclaimed author of Marquesa, takes us on a far-flung journey of angling discovery.

There are tactical passages in this book gleaned from Jeffrey’s many years of guiding in the Florida Keys, but he mainly serves as a passionate and acute narrator, angler, and observer.

He writes about the first 30 seconds of a tarpon hookup, well-endowed redfish in Cajun country, and pelagic marauders capable of burning a half-mile of backing off a fly reel. Along the way he details the intricate relationship between angler, guide, and fish–and he introduces us to a disparate cast of watermen: fly fishing legends, starving Cuban netters, a tuna captain named “Creature”, and a few longtime fishing buddies who molded and influenced Jeffrey’s perspective of the flats, oceans, and fishes.  

For the die-hard salt caster or the beginner looking for that first adrenaline-stoked hookup, Sea Level offers a stirring view of the world’s inshore/offshore gamefish and the impassioned sports who pursue them.

eBook $9.99 

Buy from Amazon.com*
Buy from Barnes & Noble 

*Note: iPad users can purchase and download this book from Amazon by installing the free Kindle App on their device.