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Tables of Contents for Traver on Fishing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xv
Nick Lyons
from Trout Madness (1960)
Preface
3
4
The First Day
7
8
The Fish Car
15
6
Big Secret Trout
21
8
Lost Atlantis
29
10
Back-Yard Trout Fishing
39
6
Little Panama
45
10
Paulson, Paulson, Everywhere
55
6
The Haunted Pond
61
8
The Intruder
69
10
These Tired Old Eyes
79
8
Spots Before the Eyes
87
16
The Old and the Proud
103
4
The Last Day
107
16
from Anatomy of a Fisherman (1964)
Behold the Fisherman
The Return of the Native
The Other Side of the Coin
Shangri-La, Jr.
Portrait of Truth ...
On Trout Fishing and the Sturdy Virtues
Fish-and-Tell Fishermen
Are All Fishermen Alike?
Experts and Duffers
The Favorite Fly
The Frugal Fisherman
123
14
Fellowship and All That
My Favorite Spot
On Buying a New Fly Rod
Deceit, Dementia, and Fine Leaders or Are All Fishermen Crazy?
Fisherman versus Hunter
137
6
from Trout Magic (1974)
Sins My Father Taught Me (With apologies to him and Dvorak)
143
14
A Flick of the Favorite Fly
157
14
A Kind of Fishing Story or, The Night I Lost to Jack Sharkey
171
6
Fly Fishermen: The World's Biggest Snobs
177
10
Size Is Not the Measure
187
6
D. McGinnis: Guide
193
16
Kiss-and-Tell Fishermen
209
10
Hoarding the Cast
219
6
Morris the Rodmaker
225
6
The Fishing Story Life Missed
231
10
First Day, Last Day
241
4
Some Early, Some Late
Fishermen at Night---Story, May 1938
245
4
Showdown at Cedar Swamp---Rod & Reel, May/June 1981
249
6
Gamboling at Frenchman's---from Waters Swift and Still, 1982
255
12
Loon Calls on the Polecat---Fly Fisherman, May 1984
267
10
My Friend, My Friend---from Seasons of the Angler, 1988
277
10
Treed by Trout-Michigan Natural Resources magazine, July/August 1989
287
8
Dangling Angling Genes---Fly Rod & Reel, May/June 1990
295
10
Two Profiles
If Trout Could Talk---Norris McDowell, 1993
305
8
On His Own Terms---Rich Vander Veen and Fred Baker, Michigan Bar Journal, May 2000
313