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    Trout Water: In Pursuit of the World's Most Beautiful Fish
    Trout Water: In Pursuit of the World's Most Beautiful Fish
    Trout Water: In Pursuit of the World's Most Beautiful Fish
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    Trout Water: In Pursuit of the World's Most Beautiful Fish

    By Jim Rowinski and Nick Lyons

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    Through extraordinary photographs and prose, Trout Water brings to life the waters where trout make their home, creating an intimate portrait of the nature of the living river and the fly fisherman’s passion for these wild places. Every river’s story is unique, but each shares a fundamental set of characteristics. Trout Water illustrates the compelling mystery and complexity of these rivers and the diverse trout species that call them home.

    Brought to life through Jim Rowinski’s artistic vision, Trout Water reveals the magical world of running water, elusive trout, and the bond between man and river. The book follows the geological and historical nature of trout waters, the fundamental features and characteristics that make up trout water, and the beautiful places where fishermen pursue wild trout. With an illuminating foreword by legendary fly fisherman and author Nick Lyons, this is a book that no trout fisherman should be without.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateNov 10, 2010
    ISBN9781510720497
    Trout Water: In Pursuit of the World's Most Beautiful Fish

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      Trout Water - Jim Rowinski

      Preface

      Lying on the ground as a boy of five or six years, I peered into a side stream of crystal-clear water that split off the main channel of the river where my dad and grandfather were fishing. In it were tiny insects and a few miniature trout. I watched as fry darted and flashed, seemingly jousting with imaginary targets floating within the water. Others stayed stationary in the fast-moving waters, their heads trained directly into the flow, bodies and tails moving in opposing synchronicity with the water’s movement. I was mesmerized by that intricate look at the world within their watery world. It wasn’t until many years later that I realized that within that tiny rivulet existed the basic ecological principles found in all living trout water.

      I was certainly not aware of it at the time, but it was to become one of those indelible moments in my life. That small stream, whose name I can no longer recall, helped to create the wonder, passion, and love of trout water that has become a cornerstone in the person I am and helped to make living rivers a part of my life’s work.

      This book represents a lifetime of living with trout waters. I have tried to convey in photographs and words those sights, smells, sounds, and feelings—stories remembered and forgotten, time away from and shared with special people, daydreams dreamed and aspirations lived, time spent and moments wasted that make up the essential elements of our lives. This is what trout water means to me. This is what trout water has brought to my life.

      At its best, trout water is crystal clear and most often wild. Trout need clean, cold water to survive. Like them, I am at my best in clear, wild places. Trout waters play a very important role in my own psychological health and well-being. Without these places, I would be a totally different person, and a much poorer one.

      Wild trout streams and rivers are part of the glue that keep me whole and in balance. The more often I can be immersed in and around trout water, the healthier I am. Just knowing they exist is often enough to keep me sane in our fast and high-tech world. It is a feeling I know to be universal, at least for those of us fortunate enough to have felt the crisp snap of a cold morning’s cast, or the soft musical patter of a spring creek against our waders on a summer’s afternoon. I have shared these moments many times over the years with like-minded souls that I have met on streams and over dinner at the end of a day on the river.

      The wildness of trout rivers is as tangible a part of my foundation as the Precambrian rocks beneath my feet. Wild trout waters help to keep me in touch with the heartbeat of the planet. Whether or not we know it, understand it, or even care, our lives are intrinsically intertwined with the life and health of trout waters. They are good barometers of the health of our planet.

      Here in North America, we are fortunate to still have a reasonable richness of wild, natural trout water. We have been fortunate to have individuals and organizations over the past hundred years or so who had the vision, the wisdom, and the courage to fight to protect these precious waters. This book is dedicated to all those who have put themselves in the forefront of these battles to save our wild and natural trout waters for future generations. This is the greatest gift you could have given to me—and to the millions of others around our tiny planet earth.

      —Jim Rowinski

      Charlottesville, VA 2010

      Introduction

      All trout fishers are different, but we all overlap. The degree to which we share common feelings and dreams, the degree to which we have enjoyed similar experiences, shouldn’t surprise me after more than sixty-five years at it—and it really doesn’t; but it does always give me a quiet shock of recognition and pleasure. We share, as Jim Rowinski wisely notes, similar wonder, passion, and love of trout water—and in many instances, this is the cornerstone of who we are, too. Trout water, the kind of water in which trout flourish, is varied, mysterious, and invariably magical, and the photographs in this book, accompanied by Jim Rowinski’s sensitive and thoughtful text, enable us to see that world in many of its richest and most memorable configurations.

      Though this is a textured portrait in photographs of trout rivers, the text is especially important to this book. The photographs by themselves could become merely decorative and the text without the images potentially arbitrary and dry. The text is excellent—much more personal than similar essays I’ve read, specific to the rivers the author has loved, knowledgeable about the origins and ecology and discrete forms trout rivers take—and it is intimately linked to the fine photographs. The combination of text and image, though, is more than the sum of its parts; the combination is a new, rich entity.

      The history of how rivers are formed, the long gestation period they have undergone to become what they are today, gives us a deeper sense of the continuum of which we, in the twenty-first century, are a part. Rowinski poignantly makes us aware of the genesis of wild rivers, the complex forces, beginning perhaps with

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