Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg

By John Gierach

Book Overview

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

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 secret places are the soul of fishing." Hearing about a new one never fails to entice us.

And so Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg transports the reader to the best of these places, where the fish are always bigger and the hatches last forever. After all, it's these magical places that Gierach so vividly evokes that remind us how precious--and precarious--are the unspoiled havens of the natural world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B003ZQQS16
• ISBN13: 9780671754556
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

the best there is

can't say enough about John G. I have every one but one hard to find early book....they are prized. It's just WAY to easy to be right there with him, AK, and others...

The secret places to fish.

We who fish have all heard of these places. The Secrets, the holes where civilisation didn't spoil the fish, and the fish are wild. Or, if originally stocked, been living the free life long enough to be close to wild. Yet again Gierach proves that his writing, although deeply personal, never becomes private and that his choice of subject - matter touches everybody with just a passing knowledge of fishing. His books are about life first and the fish second or are these to inseperable to him?

This is the book that hooked me on John Gierach

It all started with this book as a gift -- John's stories are addictive and now I own all of John's works (save, "Signs of Life"). If you enjoy well-crafted short stories, you will not be disapointed with this work.