East Branch: Six Years on a Catskill Trout Stream. This item is unavailable.East Branch: Six Years on a Catskill Trout Stream

In this creative nonfiction narrative, Mitch Keller chronicles his move from New York City to live as a hand-to-mouth trout bum upstate and shares what it is really like to move to trout country to try to build a life around fly fishing—a dream of so many anglers. All the joys and rewards of the angling life are here in abundance, but so are the chronic financial hardship, the menial jobs, the interminable winters, the moments of doubt—everything that comes with that life and the decision to live it.

This compelling story of life living along and fishing a classic trout stream of the Catskills is sure to not only interest those that fish the area but also captivate anyone who has dreamed of leaving the hustle of the city behind to live a more deliberate life.

Mitch Keller has worked as a reporter or editor for five daily newspapers in five states. He spent the last seventeen years of his newspaper life at the New York Times, where he was desk head and then managing editor of the New York Times News Service and wrote for the City section.His work has also appeared in Newsday, Outdoor America magazine, the Woodstock (N.Y.) Times, and the collection More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times (New York University Press, 2010). He divides his time between New York City and the Catskill Mountains.