Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg [Paperback]

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 soWhere the Trout Are All as Longas Your Legtransports 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.John Gierach was the award-winning author of more than twenty books about fly-fishing. He was beloved as “the voice of the common angler (TheWall Street Journal)and inducted into the Fly-Fishing Hall of Fame in 2015. He lived in Lyons, Colorado, with his wife Susan de Castro McCann until his passing in 2024.A fresh and original series featuring John Gierach’s witty, trenchant observations about fly-fishing and everything that goes with it.Flyfisher MagazineGierach writes about the common experiences in a way that makes ours more meaningful.