Why I Fish
by
Eugene Macri

I had to add this little video that I put together because it seems so relavent to why we waste so much time at these things.  This is an adaptation of Robert Traver's Testament of a Fisherman. Robert Traver's real name was John Voelkler and he wrote the novel Anatomy of a Murder which was made into the movie in the 1959 with the same name.  The movie directed by Otto Preminger is considered by many critics as Preminger's greatest work. After Traver got the money from his novel he resigned his seat on Michigan's Bench and retired to fishing for the next 20 plus years of his life.

Testament of  a Fisherman is rightly condsidered one of the best pieces in "fly fishing" literature.  I hope I have done it justice in this photo essay.