Casting BackThrough the pages of Casting Back, Peter McMullan takes the reader from his youthful Irish beginnings in the 1940s to his time as a young journalist in Northern Ireland during the mid 1950s, through the 1960s and into today's western Canada and a totally different sport fishing environment. Pike and bream, roach, tench and perch were his original targetswhat British and Irish anglers call "coarse" fish. Then, with experience and the passage of time,