Paleo Treats Podcast

John Gierach has long been a fly fishing hero of mine. What I didn't know, but came through clearly in this Paleo Treats Podcast interview, is that he's also a writing hero. We start the interview by talking about one of his major influencers, his Uncle Leonard. Leonard was "just good at things in a duct tape and baling wire kind of way. He didn't always do things right, but he always got things done." That practical bent of making sure things got done "so that they worked" has certainly rubbed off on John. His writing (18 books in total and about 800 articles, all on fishing) has the unusual ability to drop you into a story without realizing you're not listening to him tell it around a campfire, or on a long road trip. There's no better example of this (in my mind) than his short story, "Headwaters" from the book Trout Bum. John talks about how writing in the second person gives the writing immediacy, even though it's an unusual perspective. John wrote that first book, "Trout Bum", in 1985, coining the term