JOHN GIERACH is a freelance writer living in northern Colorado. He is the author of twenty-one books including Trout Bum, Sex, Death and Flyfishing, Standing in a River Waving a Stick and A Fly Rod of Your Own. He was a regular columnist for Fly Rod & Reel magazine and still contributes to The Redstone Review in Lyons, Colorado and was the outdoor correspondent for the Longmont Daily Times-Call newspaper in Longmont, Colorado for twenty-eight years.