No Shortage of Good Days

"America's best fishing writer" ( Houston Chronicle) returns with more surprising, entertaining insights on fishing and on life, now in paperback. John Gierach's latest book finds him fishing from the Smokies in eastern Tennessee to his home waters in Colorado, from the Canadian Maritimes to Baja California, and many points in between. As always, John has plenty to say about fishing and about life more generally. In No Shortage of Good Days Gierach writes about the charms of familiar, third-rate streams; the value and etiquette of fishing guides; night fishing, when the troutand the mosquitoesare biting; winter fishing, when you can have the river all to yourself because you're the only one foolhardy enough to venture out on a day when there is more ice and slush than water in the streams. No Shortage of Good Days is filled with observations that are always entertaining, often surprising, and sometimes even profound. As always with Gierach, it's a pleasurable, rewarding read.

John Gierach is the author of many previous books about fishing, among them Fools Paradise; Sex, Death, and Fly-fishing; and Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders. He lives in Lyons, Colorado.