Synopses & Reviews
Trout Magic is a warm, joyous, and maverick look at trout fishing and its attendant tall tales, strange happenings, and all-around fishing lore. Traver recounts the story of a mysterious "dancing fly," speaks pointedly about "kiss-and-tell" fishermen, debunks fly fishermen as the "world's greatest snobs," lets us in on the fishing story Life missed, and takes us along on his strangest fishing trip. We meet the unforgettable Danny McGinnis, guide, and other choice characters and events from his anything-but-ordinary fishing trips. Traver even has some new angles on women anglers and does a free piece of tongue-in-cheek literary sleuthing into Ernest Hemingway's story "Big Two-Hearted River."
There's enough trout magic here to rub off on every reader man, woman, or child as Robert Traver weaves his inimitable storytelling spell. Trout Magic 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.
Review
"Robert Traver has brought back to angling literature the simple, honest strengths that lie in the sport itself: fun and the spirit of individualism." Lamar Underwood, Sports Afield
Review
"Traver in Trout Magic gives you that wonderful, relaxed, lazy, unhurried, and unflustered, comfortable 'old shoe' feeling, page after page, adding up to a book so captivating to read that you really feel there should be some way to learn to hum or whistle it." Arnold Gingrich
Synopsis
One of angling's best-loved books! Full of tall tales and wry wit and sure to reel in readers from all across America.
About the Author
John D. Voelker (a.k.a. Robert Traver) was a man of many varied talents. A retired justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, he also wrote Anatomy of a Murder, one of the most popular courtroom dramas ever published (it was made into the highly successful movie with Jimmy Stewart and George C. Scott), along with numerous other stories, novels, and essays centered on law and fishing. Traver died in March 1991, in Ishpemming, on his beloved Upper Peninsula of Michigan.