The View from Rat Lake

Pruett Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good . 6x0x9. Small puncture to dustjacket. The first printing of the First Edition; Scarce Thus. Gierach's popular 3rd Book. Dodging bears around Rat Lake in Montana, and expeditions to Henry's Fork, the South Platte and elsewhere. The irrepressible author of Trout Bum and Fly Fishing the High Country, strikes again with more sage observations on life and fly fishing. Essays offer observations on life and fly fishing, and discuss fly tying, the experience of fishing with flies, snobbery, the joy of success, and the miseries of going fishless. Gierach's work has appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal, Field & Stream, where he is a contributing author, and Fly, Rod, and Reel, where he is an editor at large. He also writes columns for the Longmont Daily Times-Call out of Longmont, Colorado, the monthly Redstone Review, and a monthly column for The New York Times. Gierach was the 1994 recipient of the US Federation of Fly Fishers Roderick Haig-Brown Award. The award recognizes a fly fishing author whose work embodies the philosophy and spirit of Roderick Haig-Brown, particularly a respect for the ethics and traditions of fly fishing and an understanding of rivers, the inhabitants and their environments. Please see our other hunting, fishing, and natural history titles.