Backwoods Brook Trout: Stories of Time and Place

Backwoods Brook Trout: Stories of Time and Place
- Essays on fly-fishing
This book is a collection of essays on fishing for wild brook trout over the past thirty years in the backwoods natural ponds and beaver ponds of New Hampshire (with a brief trip to Maine). The first two essays "go back" to the author's roots and early years of trout fishing in the freestone streams of northeastern Pennsylvania. Adventure is part of what one can expect when pursuing wild brook trout far from roads. Of course, there are diversions - including encounters with bears, moose and other wildlife - as well as reflections on loons and life and climate change following the last glacier retreat.

The publisher received the following comments from Robert DeMott, Editor of "Astream: American Writers on Fly Fishing":

â€¢ Fly fishing is nothing without single-mindedness, passion, even obsession. Frederick Prince, a professor of Anatomy and Physiology, a scholar, and self confessed "avid" angler, tells the delightful story of his obsession with brook trout in a series of sprightly chapters that stretch from his youth in Pennsylvania to his adulthood in New Hampshire. Pursuing brilliantly colored native brookies, especially in small ponds and lakes, is a thread that binds his life together. Written in an accessible, plain personal style, Backwoods Brook Trout goes against the current trend of gonzo accounts of ripping lips and slaying hogs in favor of a quiet, considered appreciation of the sport scaled to recognizable human dimensions. As with so many angling memoirs, Backwoods Brook Trout is a record of what Prince "learned when alone on the water," which is to say, it is about so much more than catching fish. He forays into geology, ecology, philosophy, and culture, all part of discovering the great "rhythm of the world." This is an honest portrayal of what small trout fly fishing is all about.
Country USA
Manufacturer Beech River Books
Binding Perfect Paperback
EANs 9781930149397
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Beech River Books
Binding	Perfect Paperback
EANs	9781930149397
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00