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Salvelinus fontinalis' North American range (the brook trout also swims South America and Europe) has shrunk as Homo sapiens' range has expanded. Karas explores brook-trout history and speculates about its uncertain future. He has obviously taken a lot of time researching old brook-trout stories, myths, and legends; for example, Daniel Webster was at one time reputed to have caught the largest brook trout ever, a 14.5-pound monster (Karas debunks this story and makes some informed guesses as to who actually caught it, if indeed it ever existed). He does not, however, provide basic fishing advice. Yet if you seek a definitive resource on brook trout, search no further; indeed, so encyclopedic is it that even brook-trout devotees shouldn't expect to read the whole thing at one go. Jon Kartman
From Kirkus Reviews
The much maligned brook trout gets star billing in this encyclopedic, readable study of Salvelinus fontinalis from Newsday outdoor columnist Karas. Many anglers give the brook trout a bum rap, considering it an inferior quarry to the wily, fighting browns and rainbows. But there is also a dedicated band of brook trout fanciers, who find in this exquisite fish--decked out in black and olive, rose and pearl, accessorized with light green shading to yellow squiggles and vermilion dots haloed in powder blue--the very stuff of our continent's angling past, a synecdoche testifying to clear, cold, pure waters, to a life pristine and unpretentious. Karas is decidedly in the latter group, his book a labor of love: ``Our relationship with this unique fish has never been fully documented or evaluated,'' he writes. It has been now. Karas goes back into the mists of paleoichthyology to get a handle on beginnings; charts distribution in post-glacial times; scrutinizes species, subspecies, strains (the brook isn't a trout but a char); offloads a bargeful of fish stories. The author devotes the majority of the book to the history of brook trout fishing in New York and Canada, from remote headwaters to rivers the mention of which--Nipigon and Minipi and Ashuanipi--get brook-trouters in a lather; and closes with the rude effects of acid rain on wild trout waters, this after logging and mining had already trashed the habitat. This is the kind of book anglers long for: smartly written, free of hyperbole, full of obscure historical tidbits, laced with snatches from old diaries and letters, and enticingly informative (from mere clues to gift-horse treats) on how and where to fish for wild brook trout today. Angling literature, burdened as it is by overproduction, has every reason to celebrate Karas's brook trout encomium. (color and b&w photos and illustrations, not seen) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Salvelinus fontinalis' North American range (the brook trout also swims South America and Europe) has shrunk as Homo sapiens' range has expanded. Karas explores brook-trout history and speculates about its uncertain future. He has obviously taken a lot of time researching old brook-trout stories, myths, and legends; for example, Daniel Webster was at one time reputed to have caught the largest brook trout ever, a 14.5-pound monster (Karas debunks this story and makes some informed guesses as to who actually caught it, if indeed it ever existed). He does not, however, provide basic fishing advice. Yet if you seek a definitive resource on brook trout, search no further; indeed, so encyclopedic is it that even brook-trout devotees shouldn't expect to read the whole thing at one go. Jon Kartman
From Kirkus Reviews
The much maligned brook trout gets star billing in this encyclopedic, readable study of Salvelinus fontinalis from Newsday outdoor columnist Karas. Many anglers give the brook trout a bum rap, considering it an inferior quarry to the wily, fighting browns and rainbows. But there is also a dedicated band of brook trout fanciers, who find in this exquisite fish--decked out in black and olive, rose and pearl, accessorized with light green shading to yellow squiggles and vermilion dots haloed in powder blue--the very stuff of our continent's angling past, a synecdoche testifying to clear, cold, pure waters, to a life pristine and unpretentious. Karas is decidedly in the latter group, his book a labor of love: ``Our relationship with this unique fish has never been fully documented or evaluated,'' he writes. It has been now. Karas goes back into the mists of paleoichthyology to get a handle on beginnings; charts distribution in post-glacial times; scrutinizes species, subspecies, strains (the brook isn't a trout but a char); offloads a bargeful of fish stories. The author devotes the majority of the book to the history of brook trout fishing in New York and Canada, from remote headwaters to rivers the mention of which--Nipigon and Minipi and Ashuanipi--get brook-trouters in a lather; and closes with the rude effects of acid rain on wild trout waters, this after logging and mining had already trashed the habitat. This is the kind of book anglers long for: smartly written, free of hyperbole, full of obscure historical tidbits, laced with snatches from old diaries and letters, and enticingly informative (from mere clues to gift-horse treats) on how and where to fish for wild brook trout today. Angling literature, burdened as it is by overproduction, has every reason to celebrate Karas's brook trout encomium. (color and b&w photos and illustrations, not seen) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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