Trout Bum (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.

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 writer. The essays in Trout Bum 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 The River Why, and A River Runs Through It.

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• Standing in a River Waving a Stick
• The Longest Silence
• No Shortage of Good Days (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
• Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
• Another Lousy Day in Paradise and Dances with Trout (John Gierach's Fly-fishing Library)
• The River Why
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