Trailside Guide: Fly Fishing, New Edition John Merwin and Ron Hildebrand
This review was submitted by Michael Black. "My wife bought me this book a few years
ago. I still leave it in my fishing gear bag on all trips and use it as a reference, especially for knots. The
pages are water proof and the book is actually designed to be carried along your trip.
Amazon.com has four reviews for this book, all of which are glowing 5-star ratings.
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Still Life With Brook Trout John Gierach
John's books are so uniformly superb, it seems almost tiresome raving about yet another
of his folksy collections. In this edition, he continues weaving tales of fly fishing
trips with his old buddies -- well-known authors in their own right -- as well as
speaking out for conservation and preservation issues, including a dam proposed for
construction near his home. The book is far from preachy, though. Many have tried
to describe Gierach's literary style with such descriptors as "blue collar",
"meandering" and "breezy", but his writing reminds me of those campfire or saloon
conversations with new friends after a day of fishing. The stories always flowed
easily back and forth, not only about the day's events but of days long past as well,
each story beginning with a variance of "you think that's funny?", and of course ending
with laughter. And although the mood of his writing is becoming a bit more gloomy as he
frets about aging, droughts, etc., reading this book brought back the warm feelings
I experienced when reading his early work. Buy this book from Amazon by clicking the
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