John Gierach was the author of more than twenty books about fly-fishing. His writing appeared in Field & Stream, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and Fly Rod & Reel. He wrote a column for Trout magazine and the monthly Redstone Review. Gierach passed away in 2024.
"A must-read for restless fly-fishermen."
*The Wall Street Journal*
“John Gierach is the American Turgenev, that is, if Turgenev had a
sense of humor, fished like Lee Wulff, and was as wise as Marcus
Aurelius. This means that no one is in Gierach’s league
when it comes to writing about trout fishing. A Fly Rod Of
Your Own makes you feel you are having a beer with your best friend
who is not only funny, companionable, but just great to hang out
with. When it comes to fly fishing, Gierach is like a sex
therapist. He has seen it all.”
*Craig Nova, author of All the Dead Yale Men and The Constant
Heart*
"After five decades, 20 books and countless columns, [John Gierach]
is still a master."
*Forbes*
"Gierach's deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished
storyteller. . . . His alert and slightly off-kilter observations
place him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James
Thurber."
*Publishers Weekly*
“In penning a recent tribute to a departed giant and fishing
friend, Jim Harrison, I found that no one had better anticipated
and articulated that loss than Jim himself. Gierach puts me
in a similar position. Since no one writes of our sport more
pleasingly, why not let John tell us what we love about it?
‘We go into wild places to catch wild fish for personal
reasons that may be complicated or as simple as the urge to escape
the present—which admittedly looks none too promising—into, if not
the actual past, at least into a kind of timelessness where life
still makes sense.’ Amen, and thanks for a lifetime of
pleasure and sense.”
*David James Duncan, author of The River Why and The Brothers
K*
“After 20 books on fly-fishing, you’d think John Gierach would run
out of ways to say Me Fool Fish. But dive into A Fly Rod of Your
Own and you’ll find not just a host of enjoyably fresh takes on
this magnificent obsession, but a fresh understanding of why
Gierach is the bestselling fish-writer since Izaak Walton.”
*James R. Babb, author of Fish Won’t Let Me Sleep*
“John Gierach is the patron saint of American fly-fishing.
When days go extremely well on the river I think of Gierach.
When days go extremely badly I think of Gierach.”
*C.J. Box, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Off the
Grid*
"Informs, inspires, and entertains. . . . Gierach brings a
skeptical, wry voice to the peril and promise of
twenty-first-century fishing."
*Booklist*
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