A collection of outdoor writing from one of fly fishing’s most popular essayists.
Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea.
Fly fishing is considered perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees – for the most part. Trout Tracks includes pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, plus stories of quiet successes and loud failures, in sum revealing the soul of “the quiet sport.”
You won’t learn from this book how to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you’ve ever fly fished – or if you want to – you’ll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places.
• Softcover
• Illustrated by Lynda McLennan
• 256 Pages
• 5 x 7 inches
While there is often a pretty good selection of angling literature to be found at your local fishing retailer or Chapter’s outlet, including the majority of the most recent titles published, a great deal of the best fishing writing is no longer in print. I’ve had good luck in locating many hard to find titles by combing the shelves of antiquarian or used book stores, most of which have a fishing, outdoors or sports section. Other places to look for specific titles or authors include online sources, including eBay and AbeBooks.com
