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The Year of the Trout by Steve Raymond
In this sequel to his universally hailed The Year of the Angler, Steve Raymond carries the reader through a far-reaching exploration of the world of the trout -- how he has fished for them, their history and evolution, their migrations and spawning and the state of their future in threatened environments.
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First published January 1, 1985
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December 12, 2014
The Year of the Trout is somewhat different than most fly fishing books, literary or otherwise. Steve Raymond tells his fish story, shares the sensory beauty of rare places like the Pacific Northwest and New Zealand, yet unlike most books of this type it is the fish, not the fisher, that takes the center place on these pages.
Raymond is a landscape and streamscape painter who uses poetic phrases to render the sights, sounds, and impressions of the trout habitats he has explored and fished. He is also an observant scientific journalist who did copious research in the quest to understand the trout family from its fossil origins to the forms found in the present day.
The reader will not only meet the familiar faces of the brook, brown, and rainbow trout. The sea-run cutthroat and the Dolly Varden receive just as much of Raymond's attention as the celebrated steelhead, which makes this book thoroughly inclusive, one that celebrates the actual meaning of DIVERSITY, not just the contemporary definition that fits social and political agendas.
Throughout this book Raymond reminds the reader that the trout is an evolutionary survivor, yet the species is threatened in a more intense and focused way now more than ever before because of humanity's specific obsession -- through tools and technology -- to reshape the earth under the totalitarian command of the unregulated free market profit motive.
"The truth is that man has nothing so important or urgent to do that he needs to sacrifice the trout or its habitat in order to do it . . ."
Now this is an author I would not mind joining on a fishing trip, and as he so succinctly notes at the close of his year of literary meditation:
". . . the trout are always there."
Words to read and remember, especially during those times when we refer to ourselves as ANGLERS.
Raymond is a landscape and streamscape painter who uses poetic phrases to render the sights, sounds, and impressions of the trout habitats he has explored and fished. He is also an observant scientific journalist who did copious research in the quest to understand the trout family from its fossil origins to the forms found in the present day.
The reader will not only meet the familiar faces of the brook, brown, and rainbow trout. The sea-run cutthroat and the Dolly Varden receive just as much of Raymond's attention as the celebrated steelhead, which makes this book thoroughly inclusive, one that celebrates the actual meaning of DIVERSITY, not just the contemporary definition that fits social and political agendas.
Throughout this book Raymond reminds the reader that the trout is an evolutionary survivor, yet the species is threatened in a more intense and focused way now more than ever before because of humanity's specific obsession -- through tools and technology -- to reshape the earth under the totalitarian command of the unregulated free market profit motive.
"The truth is that man has nothing so important or urgent to do that he needs to sacrifice the trout or its habitat in order to do it . . ."
Now this is an author I would not mind joining on a fishing trip, and as he so succinctly notes at the close of his year of literary meditation:
". . . the trout are always there."
Words to read and remember, especially during those times when we refer to ourselves as ANGLERS.
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