One River More
This essay collection completes Wetherell's trilogy of fishing books that includesUpland Stream(1991) andVermont River(1993). The book's title comes from the last essay's litany of yearnings, recollections, and regrets, all of which an angler experiences on the last day of trout season. Wetherell, also a novelist, examines such topics as fishing friends, fishing camps, the upper Connecticut River, and the rivers around Yellowstone National Park. The essays are casual and congenial, reflecting both environmental concerns and strong family ties, and are sprinkled with a rich variety of literary allusions, from Tolstoy to Nelson Algren. The upper Connecticut is Wetherell's muse, inspiring an eloquence that causes four-pound rainbows to burst from the page and bright river light to illuminate the reader. This fine book belongs beside the work of such other literary anglers as Bill Barich and Bill Tapply.John Rowen