Praise for A River Trilogy

“W. D. Wetherell is a good fisherman, a better writer, and a most agreeable companion who has a deep feeling for the natural world in which his quarry swim.”

—Chicago Tribune

“Wetherell writes about fishing with an angler’s love for the sport and a novelist’s eye for detail.”

—John Gierach, author of All Fisherman Are Liars

“Wetherell defends the plain pleasures of his sport and the environmental purity to sustain it, as well as what he, a novelist, calls ‘the wild upland province of words.’ He moves naturally from the beauty of a Copper Run trout to Beauty itself . . . He has a naturalist’s eye, glorying in the things mankind has not yet sullied, grieving for those we have.”

—New York Times

“Wetherell has better than any writer I know caught the character of Eastern fly-fishing: the energetic personalities of its seasons, geographies, politics natural and unnatural, and inhabitants both civilized and wild. These books have been provided us courtesy of an artist unwilling to concede that there is a distinction to be made between what is said and the manner of its saying.”

—John Engels, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

“Vermont River is one of those rare instances when fly-fishing writing overflows its banks and spreads freely into the fields of literature.”

—John Merwin, founder of Fly Rod & Reel
and author of Stillwater Trout

“These are bold little gleeful books by a writer I’ve admired for years that should endear themselves to everybody who likes streams and woods and country as well as simply to other fishermen, who will find them both astute and lyric.”

—Edward Hoagland, author of In the Country of the Blind

“Immensely readable books by a young fisherman-writer equally obsessed by the twin pursuits of the elusive trout and the elusive word. I both love and envy them.”

—Robert Traver, author of Trout Magic

“Wetherell understands the currents that flow through a fly-fisher’s soul and he taps into them with rare wit and grace. One of the most talented voices to be heard in angling literature in a long while. I found myself wishing for at least one page more, or one chapter more, and one book more. So will you.”

—Steve Raymond, author of Trout Quintet

“Delightful books that impart the soul of the river the angler, and the surrounding countryside.”

—Ted Giddings, journalist

“This is my idea of what fishing books should be—and too seldom are. Like fly fishing itself, the books soothe the soul and answer more than a few questions all of us have asked of a day, a river, or a trout.”

—Gene Hill, former columnist for Field & Stream

“Deeply felt yet resolutely unsentimental, consistently generous yet unflinching in its allegiances, Wetherell’s is a voice of sanity and sense for our increasingly virtual age. Reading him is like coming home.”

—Mark Slouka, author of Nobody’s Son and
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship

“Literary gems.”

—Paul Marriner, author of Atlantic Salmon: A Fly Fishing Primer

“Wetherell is the ideal armchair companion—an elegant writer, a fastidious, observant angler, a charming streamside companion.”

—J. Z. Grover, writer for In-Fisherman