Rest In Peace to one of the best to ever put words to paper

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  1. **John Gierach**

    Some classics in this list from Wiki: Signs of Life (1977)
    Fly-fishing the High Country (1984)
    Trout Bum (1986)
    The View from Rat Lake (1988)
    Fly-fishing Small Streams (1989)
    Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing (1990)
    Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg (1991)
    Even Brook Trout Get the Blues (1992)
    Dances with Trout (1994)
    Another Lousy Day in Paradise (1996)
    Fishing Bamboo (1997)
    Standing in a River Waving a Stick (1999)
    Good Flies: Favorite Trout Patterns and How They Got That Way (2000)
    Death, Taxes, And Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly Fishing Treasury (2000)
    At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman (2003)
    The Fly Fishing Anthology (2004, contributor with Mallory Burton, Ernest Hemingway, and others)
    Still Life with Brook Trout (2005)
    Fool’s Paradise (2008)
    No Shortage of Good Days (2011)
    All Fishermen are Liars (2014)
    A Fly Rod of Your Own (2017)
    Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers (2020)
    All the Time in the World (2023)

  2. Many of his books entertained me while driving to and from the water. And I’m sure they will continue to do so for others.

  3. livethelifeyoulove on

    The cowboy coffee chapter in trout bum is one of my favorite things I have ever read 

  4. Damnit. I just started reading his books and am absolutely in love with his work. Truly a sad day for not just the fishing community, but the entire literature world.

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