Traver on Fishing: A Treasury of Robert Traver's Finest Stories and Essays about Fishing for Trout

By Robert Traver

Book Overview

Traver on Fishing collects the best that the old judge wrote about his favourite sport - tall tales, strange happenings and true lore, including his famous Testament of a Fisherman. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592281532
• ISBN13: 9781592281534
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Careful, You Might Get Hooked.

Just enough taste of Traver's life and philosophy to make you want more. You get a picture of a self-effacing man who downplays his professional achievements as well as his fly-fishing mastery. Although he frequently laments that he wasted his life fishing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, you discover he was a successful district attorney, defense attorney, and state supreme court justice as well as a best-selling fiction author (Anatomy of a Murder). While he downplays his abilities as a fisherman, you learn he gave public flycasting demonstrations that brought the audience to their feet. Makes you yearn to be one of the boys who gather at Frenchman's pond for a warm summer day of brown trout on dry flies with long, thin leaders, followed by a night of cribbage and whisky sours from a tin cup.Traver will teach you as much about life as about fishing, and make you appreciate both more.The technical info on fly-fishing gear was current when Ike was in the White House; but this isn't a how-to fish book, it is a why-to fish book; and I'm glad I discovered it and Robert Traver.

Robert Traver revisited

If you are a Robert Traver fan or fly fisher, you will surely enjoy this book. While it recounts several of the stories youmay have read in Trout Magic or Trout Madness, it also offers some of the articles Traver wrote for magazines. In additon,there are a couple of articles which present an interesting background on a truly remarkable man.It does recall the best of Traver on fishing and a wonderfuladditon to a fisherman's library.