The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
by Thomas McGuane
Knopf, 1999

Thomas McGuane's twelfth book, called The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing, is a collection of 33 essays exploring his passion for flyfishing for trout, salmon, steelhead permit, bonefish, and tarpon.

Thomas McGuane talked to Minnesota Public Radio's Mike Edgerly about his new book, and what it's like landing a 25-pound sea-run brown trout, which McGuane caught while fishing in South America.

About the author
"What is most emphatic in angling is made so by the long silences...the unproductive periods."
—Thomas McGuane

Novelist Thomas McGuane has fished all his life.

Long before he won literary acclaim with his novels (among them The Sporting Club, The Bushwhacked Piano, 92 in the Shade, and Nothing But Blue Skies) and his screenplays (Tom Horn, Rancho Deluxe, Cold Feet) McGuane made flyfishing the center of his life. His latest book is The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing.