Trout Bum - (John Gierach's Fly-Fishing Library) by John Gierach (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.</b> <p/>While most of us fly-fish to escape from daily life, for John Gierach and his friends fly-fishing IS a way of life. They are trout bums. But John Gierach is also an exceptional <i>writer.</i> The essays in <i>Trout Bum</i> are reflective, bitingly humorous and enormously wise in the ways of fishing and men. In vivid, unforgettable detail they recount the emotional, spiritual and tangible adventures and pleasures of stalking trout in and around the Rockies--day in, day out, from season to season, with friends and alone. John Gierach's essays join the literary tradition of angling classics like <i>The River Why, </i> and <i>A River Runs Through It.</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Rocky Mountain Streamside</i> If you enjoy incisive comment, wry humor, and some inventive insight into trout and trout anglers, then <i>Trout Bum</i> is just the book for you...this is highly intelligent stuff indeed, but it is masterfully tempered by Gierach's polished and congenial style.<br><br><i>Rod & Reel</i> A brilliant collection of narrative essays about flies, fly rods, float tubes, and just plain fishing. <i>Trout Bum</i> will be a classic of angling literature, not because it adheres to an ancient model, but because it updates a tradition....The way Gierach tells a story is an act of pure generosity....<br><br>John Nichols author of <i>The Milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journey, </i> and <i>American Blood Trout Bum</i> is one of those delightful funds, like Norman McLean's <i>A River Runs Through It.</i> John Gierach is simply one of the more wonderful outdoor writers to come down the pike in many a season. I laughed out loud on almost every page, and found much of what he has to say very lyrical and touching. This book is a treasure trove of fishy witticisms, outright belly laughs, and enough technical lore and love of nature to keep the most avid (or even the least avid) outdoors person turning pages relentlessly. <br> Gierach obviously loves deeply and cares for this world he has chosen to make his stand in. It's a beautiful book, humorous, sly, rich, and touching. Once you read the first page, you'll be hooked...and love every minute of it...I <i>promise!</i><br><br>Thomas McGuane <i>Trout Bum</i> captures the passion, confusion and left-handed poetry of modern fishing, having his heart to the rivers he fishes, John Gierach conveys the power of his experience without pretense.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>John Gierach is the author of more than twenty books about fly-fishing. His writing has appeared in <i>Field & Stream, Gray's Sporting Journal</i>, and <i>Fly Rod & Reel</i>. He writes a column for <i>Trout </i>magazine and the monthly <i>Redstone Review</i>. He lives in Lyons, Colorado.
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