Cameron Mortenson
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I was more shocked with the cover art for the book…the shadow of the angler is of a spin fisherman…nothing against that segment of the sport…but Gierach tells story after story about using the glorious cane rods…only to have the clip art on his latest book be of a hardware tosser…
I wonder who in the chain of putting that book cover together made that mistake…and how it wasn’t caught before going to press…
You know what is even better than waders…wet wading…late spring through early fall are prime for wearing a pair of nylon pants, pair of hiking socks, and wading boots or sandals.
I see what you are saying…I am also a big Gierach fan…but it is interesting to see that things weren’t all that different back then…the pursuit of trout in wild places…the fly gear though improved is really much the same…and the common thread that a trout rising to a well presented dry fly still stirs something deep within us all…
I guess I also have a certain pull to authors such as Traver and Hemingway since I grew up in Michigan…catching my first trout on from the “Holy Water” of the AuSable River on an old Heddon bamboo rod and dry fly…
These writers and others remind and inspire us why we steal away to sacred places in the pursuit of trout…
