Still Life with Brook Trout
by John Gierach
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Author: John GierachEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03-22
ISBN: 0743229940
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: A FlyFisherman's Author
Summary: 5 Stars
I can see the hype Gierach gets for his writing from fly fisherman. This guy is into it!
Reading this delightful book takes me back to fly fishing times and emits once again those feelings that he so accurately and passionately describes in this book. It is a collection of his various outings, most for trout in Colorado and Wyoming, moving out to Idaho and steelheading in Oregon with other trips east and some even south to Oklahoma and to Nebraska for bass and bluegill types.
The hiking out of canyon and wilderness at dark; fishing in pouring rain and snow; catching that big one with no one to witness; glorying in the gorgeous aethestics. All these touched the dormant fly fishing spots in my memory and evoked great remembrances.
This guy can fish and he can write about it: "my fly box has over a hundred flies in it .. but use only two. I'm beginning to wonder why I carry the rest." "With steelhead, that's like teaching a new driver how to start a car and then turning him loose in rush-hour traffic" "The one about the guy who kept a twelve-pound rainbow that he wanted to mount, but who then dumped it on the ground halfway out because ..." "sign saying 'See the Real West' means this is one place where the real West no longer exists. Signs in the real West say 'No Trespassing.'"
Fishing and outdoors are about this, memories and stories. This book has them in spades and will take those who are into fly fishing and these spots there with author vicariously. Those who haven't experienced them firsthand, will likely get as close as possible in reading this great book.
The unique accompanying drawings are just outstanding!
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