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Reviewed by Joy Hannabass for Readers' Favorite
Are you a person who has enjoyed fishing most of your life? Well, David Van Lear is, and he wrote this book to tell of his adventures while fishing. David’s father loved fishing, and taught it to David when he was a young fellow. In fact, at the printing of this book David had been fishing for fifty-eight years. There are a lot of memories and a lot of experiences, some dangerous, but all interesting and fun. David tells of fishing in Yellowstone County, Idaho, South Carolina, the Buffalo River in the Ozark Mountains, the Great Smoky Mountain’s National Park, and so many more interesting places. He tells of different fish he’s caught, about fishing with partners and the different fishing lures he has used. David is not a professional angler, nor a fishing guide, but just a man who has enjoyed the sport of fishing all of his life. And that is why he has written this book, ‘Memories Made and Lessons Learned" to tell about the sport he loves so much.
Living in a fishing community, and having lots of family members that love to fish, I thought this book would be interesting to read and review, and I was not disappointed. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the stories of the events that happened on his many fishing trips. From the first chapter and his excitement of the 1953 fishing trip when he was twelve years old, to the last chapter and the frustrations trying to catch cutthroat trout at Flat Creek in the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming, add the thirty-two chapters in between and you have a great angler book worthy of anyone’s time it takes to read. If fishing is your sport, then I highly recommend that you run out and grab a copy of this book to read and enjoy for yourself. And if you are like me, that is, you don’t fish but enjoy the fishing stories, then also you will thoroughly enjoy this book.
