Gierach Died

[huntnpack]

Looks like Gierach died of a reported heart attack yesterday. Ive enjoyed a bunch of his books. I know some felt they were all the same or similar, but to me that was kind of the point.

 

[manitou1]

One of my favorite authors.
He had a knack for "taking you along fishing" and making you laugh.

 

[Beignet]

That’s truly a bummer. Hope it happened while he waist deep in a good trout stream.

 

[Matthew57]

That’s sad to hear. What’re some of your guys’ favorite Gierach books?

 

[huntnpack]

That’s sad to hear. What’re some of your guys’ favorite Gierach books?

Trout Bum is the best starting place probably.

 

[LuketheDog]

Sad times, I got to chat with him a couple times and always enjoyed his writing.

 

[MS 9x56]

He will be missed by flyfisherman worldwide.

 

[longbow51]

Wow, tough week all around.

 

[relino99]

It’s a real loss for all of us who loved his work.

 

[longbow51]

I caught a 22" Rainbow in front of Geirach, with my tall redhead wife rowing the drift boat, wearing her John Wayne Stetson, as she did for every hunting and fishing trip; pretty beat up. He smiled and and gave us (probably her) a soft thumbs up.

She always insisted I match the hatch, and then she would fish, and we would alternate.

I don't think he ever had that relationship, and I am sad for him.

Anyway, he came to fame about the time I reached my peak of obsession that I started at age 12 in farm ponds in the Mid/Southwest; bluegills and bass.

No one has chronicled the everyday, workmanship angler as well.

We have lost a great one.

May your Happy Hunting Lands include virgin trout streams.

Side note: After my SIL's Uncle died, he had a dream, in which his Uncle, recently passed (a Lutheran Minister) said, it's great; you get to fish every day!

RIP, John