Dances With Trout, John Gierach
Dances With Trout, John Gierach
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Dances With Trout

Author: John Gierach

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2019


Synopsis

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

With the wry humor and wit that have become his trademark, John Gierach writes about his travels in search of good fishing and even better fish stories. In this new collection of essays on fishing—and hunting—Gierach discusses fishing for trout in Alaska, for salmon in Scotland, and for almost anything in Texas. He offers his perceptive observations on the subject of ice-fishing, getting lost, fishing at night, tournaments, and the fine art of tying flies. Gierach also shares his hunting technique, which involves reading a good book and looking up occasionally to see if any deer have wandered by.

Always entertaining, often irreverent, and illuminating, Gierach invites listeners into his enviable way of life, and effortlessly sweeps them along. As he writes in Dances with Trout, "Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point."

About John Gierach

John Gierach is the author of numerous books on fly-fishing, including At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman, Standing in a River Waving a Stick, and Dances with Trout. His work has appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal, Field & Stream, where he is a contributing writer, and Fly Rod & Reel, where he is a columnist. He also writes columns for the Longmont Daily Times-Call and the monthly Redstone Review. He lives in Lyons, Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Fred on October 10, 2024

We lost the author (John Gierach)of this book this past week. Every book I have read his writing is simple, fluid and funny with many flyfishing lessons and angler can use to improve not only his fly fishing , but his life and overall connection with nature. He does this in an old school and refresh......more

Goodreads review by Valerie on October 20, 2024

Cheers to John Gierach who recently passed away and a leader in the trout community.......more

Goodreads review by Kierkegaard on May 02, 2025

Had to read a fly fishing book for a fly fishing class. Entertaining, but I wouldn't read again.......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on November 10, 2019

Great fishing and outdoors stories. Very easy bedtime reading.......more

Goodreads review by Murray on January 23, 2025

must read My favorite Gierach book. Just reading it makes me want to stand in a river and wave a stick. Hopefully not fall in.......more