Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing

Contents

1 Sex, Death, and Fly-fishing

2 Bass Fishing by the Numbers

3 Midge Fishing

4 Expertizing

5 I'd Fish Anyone's ST. Vrain

6 The Less-loved Fishes

7 Sticks

8 The Drought Year

9 Neither Snow, nor Rain, nor Gloom of Night

10 Fly-fishing's National Bird

11 Guiding and Being Guided

12 The Chairman's Bass

13 Rivers

14 A Quiet Week

15 Wyoming

16 British Columbia

17 The Trout Wars

18 Autumn
From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest mysteries: sex, death, and fly-fishing.

John Gierach's quest takes us from his quiet home water (an ordinary, run-of-the-mill trout stream where fly-fishing can be a casual affair) to Utah's famous Green River, and to unknown creeks throughout the Western states and Canada. We're introduced to a lively group of fishing buddies, some local "experts" and even an ex-girlfriend, along the way.

Contemplative, evocative, and wry, he shares insights on mayflies and men, fishing and sport, life and love, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of it all.
John Gierach is the author of more than twenty books about fly-fishing. His writing has appeared in Field & Stream, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Fly Rod & Reel. He writes a column for Trout magazine and the monthly Redstone Review. He lives in Lyons, Colorado. 
Sports Illustrated If Mark Twain were alive and a modern-day fly-fisherman, he still would be hard put to top John Gierach.