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James R. Babb is the editor of Gray's Sporting Journal and author of Crosscurrents, which Library Journal hailed as "the best fly-fishing book" of 2001. He was born and grew up in East Tennessee, and has worked as a commercial lobster fisherman, a truck driver, a boatyard worker, a reporter, and a feature writer. 

The sequel to Crosscurrents, which Library Journal hailed as one of the best fly-fishing books of 2001.

Library Journal

This reviewer once compared Babb's Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher's Progress (LJ 12/99) to fellow fly-fishing author John Gierach's Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders (LJ 615/00). Babb's latest book is better than anything Gierach has written in five years. Babb, the editor of Gray's Sporting Journal, takes his readers on a roller-coaster ride through farce and satire to elegy and folktale. He's a flyfishing Mark Twain who knows a little bit too much about Beavis and Butthead. The stories meander and turn like the streams on which they are set, leaving the reader wondering where each essay will deposit them. The result is a joy to read and essential for any library. Jeff Grossman, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.