{"product_id":"trout-tracks-essays-on-fly-fishing-9781771603652","title":"Trout Tracks: Essays on Fly Fishing","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada's most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed's inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFly fishing is considered perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees - for the most part. \u003ci\u003eTrout Tracks\u003c\/i\u003e includes pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, plus stories of quiet successes and loud failures, in sum revealing the soul of \"the quiet sport.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou won't learn from this book how to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you've ever fly fished - or if you want to - you'll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcLennan, Jim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJim McLennan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books on fly fishing and is a past recipient of the Andy Russell Nature Writing Award, Trout Unlimited Canada's Bob Paget Memorial Conservation Award, and the Outdoor Writers of Canada Best Book of the Year Award. He is contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eFly Fisherman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFly Fusion\u003c\/i\u003e magazines, and his writing has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Canadian Fly Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOutdoor Canada\u003c\/i\u003e. Jim is also co-host, along with Derek Bird, of Fly Fusion Television, a series broadcast on the World Fishing Network. He is a frequent speaker on fly fishing and conservation topics at events throughout the U.S. and Canada. Jim and his wife, Lynda McLennan, live and work in southern Alberta, where they fish, hunt, write, and manage McLennan Fly Fishing (mclennanflyfishing.com).","brand":"Rocky Mountain Books Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383120138514,"sku":"9781771603652","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_46e1e8b5-7afd-494f-ab37-1f61912c1111.jpg?v=1728778794","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trout-tracks-essays-on-fly-fishing-9781771603652","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}