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Steve discusses this book, noting it's 'not about trout fishing in America' but contains 'one of the greatest fishing lines ever' about a stream being so narrow you'd 'have to be a plumber to fish that creek.'

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Steve compares Thomas McIntyre's book structure to this book by Brautigan, noting that 'Trout Fishing in America isn't about trout fishing in America' - using it as an example of books that digress from their stated subject matter.

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McGuane mentions that his friend Richard Brautigan's daughter sent him a new edition with Billy Collins' introduction. Later discussed as a book that people read while fishing even though 'it doesn't really have anything to do with trout fishing.'

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Discussed in the context of counterculture literature and fishing writing. Rinella and Gierach discuss whether it holds up over time, with Gierach noting Brautigan is 'still funny' though perhaps 'a little thin in retrospect.'