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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting > Fishing, angling
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural
world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing
writers.
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 familiar waters, the etiquette of
working with new fishing guides, night fishing when the trout and
the mosquitoes are both biting, and fishing snobbery, a pitfall he
seems to have largely avoided: "A friend and I recently realized
that making fly-fishing a way of life instead of a hobby has made
us a couple of pretty one-dimensional characters. On the other
hand, we agreed we're two of the happiest people we know, albeit in
a simple-minded sort of way."
Gierach again demonstrates the wit, eloquence, and insight that
have become his trademarks. "No Shortage of Good Days "is the next
best thing to a day of fishing.
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