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Traver on Fishing: A Treasury of Robert Traver's Finest Stories and Essays about Fishing for Trout » (Abridged, 4 CD's, 4 hrs. 30 min.)
Authors: Robert Traver, Nick Lyons (Editor), Michael Prichard
ISBN-13: 9781933309057, ISBN-10: 1933309059
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: American Media International
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: Abridged, 4 CD's, 4 hrs. 30 min.
Author Biography: Robert Traver
Book Synopsis
Collects the best of Traver's work. Filled with tall tales, strange happenings, and true lore. Traver loved fishing for trout on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. His experiences made for two memorable books and numerous essays. He is recognized as among the best writers of his generation.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | XV | |
| from Trout Madness (1960) | ||
| Preface | 3 | |
| The First Day | 7 | |
| The Fish Car | 15 | |
| Big Secret Trout | 21 | |
| Lost Atlantis | 29 | |
| Back-Yard Trout Fishing | 39 | |
| Little Panama | 45 | |
| Paulson, Paulson, Everywhere | 55 | |
| The Haunted Pond | 61 | |
| The Intruder | 69 | |
| These Tired Old Eyes ... | 79 | |
| Spots Before the Eyes | 87 | |
| The Old and the Proud | 103 | |
| The Last Day | 107 | |
| from Anatomy of a Fisherman (1964) | ||
| Behold the Fisherman | ||
| The Return of the Native | ||
| The Other Side of the Coin | ||
| Shangri-La, Jr. | ||
| Portrait of Truth ... | ||
| On Trout Fishing and the Sturdy Virtues | ||
| Fish-and-Tell Fishermen | ||
| Are All Fishermen Alike? | ||
| Experts and Duffers | ||
| The Favorite Fly | ||
| The Frugal Fisherman | 123 | |
| Fellowship and All That | ||
| My Favorite Spot | ||
| On Buying a New Fly Rod | ||
| Deceit, Dementia, and Fine Leaders or Are All Fishermen Crazy? | ||
| Fisherman versus Hunter | 137 | |
| from Trout Magic (1974) | ||
| Sins My Father Taught Me (With apologies to him and Dvorak) | 143 | |
| A Flick of the Favorite Fly | 157 | |
| A Kind of Fishing Story or, The Night I Lost to Jack Sharkey | 171 | |
| Fly Fishermen: The World's Biggest Snobs | 177 | |
| Size Is Not the Measure | 187 | |
| D. McGinnis: Guide | 193 | |
| Kiss-and-Tell Fishermen | 209 | |
| Hoarding the Cast | 219 | |
| Morris the Rodmaker | 225 | |
| The Fishing Story Life Missed | 231 | |
| First Day, Last Day | 241 | |
| Some Early, Some Late | ||
| Fishermen at Night--Story, May 1938 | 245 | |
| Showdown at Cedar Swamp--Rod & Reel, May/June 1981 | 249 | |
| Gamboling at Frenchman's--from Waters Swift and Still, 1982 | 255 | |
| Loon Calls on the Polecat--Fly Fisherman, May 1984 | 267 | |
| My Friend, My Friend--from Seasons of the Angler, 1988 | 277 | |
| Treed by Trout--Michigan Natural Resources magazine, July/August 1989 | 287 | |
| Dangling Angling Genes--Fly Rod & Reel, May/June 1990 | 295 | |
| Two Profiles | ||
| If Trout Could Talk--Norris McDowell, 1993 | 305 | |
| On His Own Terms--Rich Vander Veen and Fred Baker, Michigan Bar Journal, May 2000 | 313 |
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