John Gierach’s latest book, All Fishermen Are Liars, lives up to the sort of writing we have come to expect from him; meaning entertaining and interesting, often poetic and contemplative, laced with his own brand of sardonic wit and his masterful use of the surprise one-liner. Let me…

 

   

Seldom have I been more enthralled by a book about fly fishing than I was with Simon Copper’s debut work, Life Of A chalkstream, a book I just could not put down.   It is a simple story beautifully told about the resurrection of a Hampshire chalkstream called the River…