COMING SOON! — A nostalgic collection of stories celebrating a lifetime of fishing with family and friends and the lessons, laughs, and lasting memories reeled in along the way by Jerry Apps.
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Summary
From his first experiences going fishing with his pa as a boy, Jerry Apps was hooked. Eighty-some years later, Apps reflects on a lifetime of fishing and the memories and lessons netted along the way. As he recounts the simple pleasures of casting a line from shore on a warm summer evening or reeling in a lunker on opening day of trout season, he reminds us of the values fishing can teach people of all ages: persistence, resourcefulness, cooperation and the importance of caring for our natural world.
Along with his best-loved fish tales, Apps includes fishing photos from the family album and favorite angling locales, lingo, bait, and gear. He draws on interviews with fellow fishermen and -women, his own journal entries recorded over decades, and his popular newspaper column Outdoor Notebook. And, in a nod to the tradition of swapping fish stories, Apps also shares a few of his family and friends’ angling anecdotes—some of them funny, some poignant, many embellished, and all of them keepers. Imaginative pen-and-ink illustrations made by artist Sid Boyum to commemorate the annual fishing season opener add charm to this delightful volume.
In Lunkers, Keepers, and Ones that Got Away, Apps captures the exciting, heartwarming, and nostalgia-inducing experiences that fishing brings to avid and casual anglers alike.
Author
Jerry Apps is a former county extension agent and is professor emeritus with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Jerry is the author of more than forty fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Jerrys his time between his home in Madison and his farm, Roshara, in Waushara County.
