Publisher Description

This title presents an old-fashioned portrait of outdoor life.Jim Gasque's classic 1948 work offers a period portrait of outdoor life in the Great Smoky Mountains. Filled with anecdotes, fishing and hunting stories, and recollections of legendary local sportsmen and guides, ""Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smokies"" presents a social history of these activities before the founding of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. Gasque's guide covers trout streams and trout fishing, lake fishing, and hunting. Thanks to careful preservation by the park, the streams Gasque describes still draw sportsmen today. His tips on prime fly-fishing spots are remarkably up to date and remain valuable for twenty-first-century anglers. Although hunting is now prohibited in the park, it is still common surrounding areas.Jim Casada's introduction for this new edition provides a biographical profile of Gasque, puts the hunting and fishing ethics of the period into perspective for today's sportsmen, and offers Casada's thoughts on fishing in the park as it exists today.

Author Biography

The late Jim Gasque was an outdoor writer from Asheville, North Carolina, and author of Bass Fishing: Techniques, Tactics, and Tales.

Review

"Viewed from any perspective, Jim Gasque's Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smokies ranks as a regional classic. Written in the simple, sprightly style of a gifted storyteller, the book carries the reader to streams of dreams and lakes of wonder." - Jim Casada, from the Introduction"

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Transports the reader to smoky mountain creeks and rocky backcountry. . . . One could not ask for a more affable and entertaining guide.-- North Carolina Historical Review

Promotional "Headline"

"Can be read simply for the great outdoor stories or as a guidebook that . . . is as useful today as it was more than half a century ago . . . a unique social history."-- Appalachian Heritage

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