Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders

His fans don't need to be told, because it has already happened to them. All it really takes is a few paragraphs. Open up any one of John Gierach's perennially popular fishing tales, and just like that, it's all over. He's got you -- hook, line, and sinker. Sports Illustrated got it right with this comparison: "If Mark Twain were alive and a modern-day fly fisherman, he still would be hard put to top John Gierach in the one-liner department." The Richmond Times-Dispatch speaks for countless readers in calling Gierach "as funny, sad, irreverent, and wise as they come," and fisherman-writer-publisher Nick Lyons calls Gierach's writing "as human and witty and memorable and perceptive as any prose of its kind."

With Headwaters, which arrives just in time for Father's Day, the author selects and introduces forty of his personal favorites from bestsellers past, including such classics as "Camp Coffee" and "On the Road" from Trout Bum, "The Purist" and "In Camp" from The View from Rat Lake, as well as "Montana" and the title essay from Even Brook Trout Get the Blues. As passionate as it is effortlessly hip, Headwaters is the ideal introduction for a new legion of Gierach fans, and a perfect catch for Gierach's already devoted readers.