Opening Days by Richard Chiappone Reel [John Gierach] is still a

[John Gierach] is still a master” (Forbes)

a joy to read

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The Loon Vise Pawn is a friend to any tyer that is tired of fighting that piece of hackle or tinsel or ribbing while tying in the next material

he penned the Entomology column for American Angler magazine for thirty years

Opening Days by Richard Chiappone Reel [John Gierach] is still aWith this eclectic collection of essays, short stories, and poems, Richard Chiappone elongates the fishing writing genre like a perfect backcast, suggesting that he finds almost anything a fisherman does interesting anything but the actual fishing. He describes only one sport fish landed a late season Alaskan steelhead too cold to put up a fuss about being hooked. In another piece, he never gets any farther than his own backyard, standing in a