Once an angler masters a graphite rod, his interests often move on to the original fly rod, pliant bamboo. Until the mid-twentieth century, nearly all fly rods were bamboo. By the 1970s, fiberglass and graphite changed the world of fly-fishing. But more and more anglers are seeing bamboo rods in ret[...]

The author offers sage observations on life and fly fishing in essays that discuss fly tying, fly fishing, snobbery, the joy of success and the miseries of going fishless[...]

Fly-fishing's finest scribe, John Gierach, takes us from a nameless stream on a nameless ranch in Montana to a secret pool off a secret creek where he caught a catfish as a five-year-old, to a brook full of rattlesnakes and a private pond where the trout are all as long as your leg. As Gierach says,[...]

The popular angler columnist and author of Dances with Trout shares more meditations on fishing and his streamside philosophies, from understanding one's identity as a fisher to learning life lessons in the face of failure. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.[...]

In "No Shortage of Good Days "John Gierach takes readers from the Smokies in Tennessee to his home waters in Colorado, from the Canadian Maritimes to Mexico--saltwater or fresh, it's all fishing and all irresistible. As always he writes perceptively about a wide range of subjects: the charm of famil[...]

Tactics for fishing high country lakes, the conflicting currents of high mountain streams, and the ever-changing waters of beaver ponds Cutthroats, brook trout, goldens, rainbows, grayling The best weather and seasons to fish and the tackle and flies to take into the high country "The mountains--any[...]

For the first time, two of John Gierach's most popular fishing books are collected in one volume--a double dose of delight for longtime fans or first-time visitors to Gierach country. As Gierach astutely observes in "Dances with Trout, ""Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientif[...]

An anthology of 40 essays on fishing and life from the famous fisherman philosopher, John Gierach. He shows the wonder and occasional absurdity of the fishing life, and captures both the rhythms of the angling life and the natural world on which it depends.[...]