\'\'Still Life with Brook Trout\'\' - Book by John Geirach

In this excellent book, Still Life with Brook Trout, author John Geirach demonstrates that fly fishing is more than a sport or hobby, rather it?s a venture into a Zen-like state-of-mind. In Still Life with Brook Trout, Geirach travels from Wyoming to Maine and many points in between in search of new fishing adventures. In his usual humbly humorous manner, Geirach ponders the importance of good fishing guides, the necessity of keeping some fishing secrets and the difficulty of fishing with dignity. Geirach also breaches more serious topics, such as aging gracefully, the politics of dam building and the effects of the drought in the West. Throughout Gierach shows us that fishing begins with a rod and reel but encompasses so much more - a passion shared among friends, a way of experiencing the natural world that is uncommon these days, or as Gierach puts it: \'Living gracefully in any kind of natural environment takes patience and acceptance: the two qualities we Americans have pretty much bred out of ourselves\'. 213 pages.