Spring Creek: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Description

Spring Creek is one of those rare places where the trout are as long as your arm but also exceedingly difficult to catch. In this book, the author explores its secrets and confronts its greatest challenge as, slowly, he acquires the various and special skills and disciplines necessary to take the large wary brown trout of this extraordinary river.

Nick Lyons is a former English professor and book publisher, as well as the author and editor of many books on various topics. He lives in New York City.

Nick Lyons is a national treasure . . . a writerof literature who fishes, and one of the best we have. --Harry Middleton I love Nick Lyons's books. Every sentence is so full and ripe with whatever it is that keeps us fishing--and the minute-by-minute surprise and delight of it. --Ted Hughes A fisherman's fisherman and a writer's writer, Lyons is an acknowledged master of both crafts. Literate, philosophic, passionate, witty, and self-effacing, he has stories to tell and he's skilled in the art of telling them. --Jeff Silverman Fly-fishing isn't a spectator sport, but if Nick Lyons fishes as skillfully as he writes about it, I'd pay to watch him. --Ed Zern Nick Lyons is a national treasure . . . a writer of literature who fishes, and one of the best we have. --Harry Middleton