Dances With Trout Audiobook (Free)

Excellent, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the organic world, and existence in general by the acknowledged grasp of fishing writers.

With the wry humor and wit which have become his trademark, John Gierach writes about his travels in search of good fishing and better still fish stories. In this new collection of essays on fishing-and hunting-Gierach discusses angling for trout in Alaska, for salmon in Scotland, and for almost anything in Tx. He gives his perceptive observations on the subject of ice-fishing, getting lost, angling at night, tournaments, and the artwork of tying flies. Gierach also shares his hunting technique, that involves reading an excellent book and looking up occasionally to find out if any deer possess wandered by.

Always entertaining, frequently irreverent, and illuminating, Gierach invites listeners into his enviable life-style, and effortlessly sweeps them along. As he writes in Dances with Trout, ‘Fly-fishing can be solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in a few hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It’s not even obvious if catching seafood is actually the idea.’