Traver on Fishing

by Robert Traver, Nick Lyons (Editor)

No one wrote with more warm, downhome affection for flyfishing than the late Robert Traver. He especially loved fishing for his beloved and bejeweled native brook trout on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, mostly on what he called "Frenchman's Pond," near Ishpeming.
The tales he told made two memorable books, Trout Madness and Trout Magic; text for a brilliant story in photographs ( Anatomy of a Fisherman); and numerous essays and stories in a wide variety of magazines. His prose gives us, as Arnold Gingrich has said, "that wonderful, relaxed, lazy, unhurried and unflustered, comfortable 'old shoe' feeling, page after page."
Traver on Fishing collects the best that the old judge wrote about his favorite sport - tall tales, strange happenings and true lore, including his famous 'Testament of a Fisherman'. This book is a marvelous catch of wit, wisdom, and anecdote sure to delight everyone who enjoys a master storyteller, who just happens to write here about his wonderful world of trout fishing.

344 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Robert Traver is the pseudonym of John Donaldson Voelker who served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Marquette County, Michigan and later as the 74th Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He wrote many books reflecting his two passions, the law and flyfishing, Troubleshooters, Danny and the Boys and Small Town D.A.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

the jokes were funny but they kept on getting retold. Same with some of the stories. It would recur with a few different words but the same essential story. In that way it sounds more like who John really was, a windbag with the same old stories. His prose though is beautiful. After he gets the goofy jokes out of the way it makes room for poetic engaging prose.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Am trying to learn to flyfish.....great tales