A Place on the Water: An Angler's Reflections on HomeMore than a collection of fishing stories, A Place on the Water is a passionate and eloquent exploration of subjects with broad appeal: love of land and water, informed and unsentimental appreciation of nature, and outrage at changes that threaten to obliterate places we can no longer afford to take for granted. In clear and sparkling prose, Jerry Dennis transports us to a world that every angler dreams of-where the very next cast will be the one that hooks something enormous and wonderful. |
Contents
NIGHTPADDLING | 1 |
A NEWMOON BASS | 7 |
ENCOUNTER IN THE CATTAILS | 16 |
A LEGENDARY FISH | 20 |
THE QUICKNESS OF TROUT | 27 |
THE CHRISTMAS GIFT | 33 |
IN THE BUFFALO FIELDS | 41 |
FISHING THE JAM | 52 |
THE DEMISE OF THE MICHIGAN GRAYLING | 134 |
OFFSEASON ON THE MANISTEE | 141 |
WINTERS RIVER | 146 |
Too MANY ONTONAGONS | 154 |
WARRING FACTIONS | 162 |
CANOEING MICHIGANS WILDEST RIVER | 165 |
JUST ME AND MY JACKET | 177 |
THE HEEBIEJEEBIES | 180 |
LAKE TROUT NIGHTS | 60 |
THE HAND OF THE EARTH | 70 |
MY CLASSIC CANOE | 78 |
A BIG TWOHEARTED PILGRIMAGE | 84 |
BROOK TROUT IN TRAVER COUNTRY | 91 |
THE TRUMPET ON THE DEAD | 108 |
KING TROUT | 115 |
HAUNTED BY THE HEX | 122 |
STURGEON ON THE ICE IN A FESTIVE MOOD | 185 |
A VENDETTA | 192 |
AFTER RAIN | 199 |
WIDE MARGINS | 205 |
THE DUNES IN WINTER | 211 |
BRIDGES | 218 |
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