7x10 / 64 Pages

Edition of 67 Numbered Copies 

$650.00 U.S. 

"Last year was a vintage year for saltwater fly-fishing books, and we start this year off with a gem. For pure entertainment value, Sea Level is surely the year's best book."     - Steve Raymond, Fly Fishing in Salt Waters

"This is extraordinarily good writing about fishing and places. Cardenas has a first-rate ear for the nuance of speech and an enviable eye for telling details. Someone who doesn't know a bonefish from a haddock would enjoy Sea Level just for its travel writing, characters, and handsome use of language. A fly fisher will enjoy this book as one of the best he's ever read." - Art Scheck, Saltwater Fly Fishing

"....I found myself relaxing into these stories, looking forward to ending an evening with another. Cardenas has a smooth comfortable style, a self-depreciating sense of humor and a narrative balance that made me feel genuinely pleased to be in the boat." - Seth Norman, Fly Rod & Reel 

"A marvelous achievement, this blend of comprehensive angling information with perceptive insight and a keen sense of place. Great pieces on Cuba. We are off on much more than a fishing trip. Taken all around, as Huck Finn says, it's a splendid piece of work."  -John N. Cole

Sea Level
Adventures of a Saltwater Angler

Deluxe Edition

by Jeffrey Cardenas

This is a collection of pieces selected by the author especially for this edition. It includes a new final chapter, "Fishing Alone," a poignant captsone of a remarkable body of fine and distinctive writing. 

This is a larger format, richly illustrated, fine press edition. It is printed letterpress, two colors throughout, on imported German Zerkall mouldmade paper. Each book is hand-bound in quarter leather and enclosed in a drop-spine box with a matching leather title label.

Signed by Jeffrey Cardenas & Jimmy Buffett

"When I wrote Tales from Margaritaville, about seaplane pilot Frank Bama, my intention was for the reader not to know where the story  was going or what would happen next. The guy flying the plane was an interesting enough character with whom the reader could ride for a few hundred pages. Frank Bama was a work of fiction. Jeffrey Cardenas is a real piece of work. His skiff is warmed up and waiting at the dock and this book is a vacant seat. Jump into it and enjoy the ride." - Jimmy Buffett

"Jeffrey Cardenas is the most knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and tireless angler with whom I have ever wet a line. He is also an eloquent and reflective writer who brings his passion for saltwater game fishing to life on each page."    - Jack Nicklaus

"These wonderful and thoughtful essays transcend the ordinary hook-and-bullet tales of fish and fishing, mostly because Jeffrey Cardenas's love of the sea world and its fascinating natural histories and mysteries illuminates his text with some very fine lyrical translucent writing."    - Peter Matthiessen

"Sea Level, by Jeffrey Cardenas ranks among the rarest of writings on saltwater sport because this is not just a collection of fishing stories, it is a rare collection of fishing literature. The man is so practiced at his craft--waterman and writer--that he communicates with a power as potent and inviolable as a spring tide."    - Randy Wayne White