Hunter's Moon, Fisherman's Sun

About the Book

Go hunting and fishing with Mike Yurk in Hunter’s Moon, Fisherman’s Sun. It is a collection of twenty two stories that will take you from Alaska to Key West with a lot of time in the upper Mid West where Mike grew up and still lives. It begins with memories of opening day of the fishing season and ends with a long winter followed by two more opening days. In between we fish for halibut in Alaska, hunt pheasants in South Dakota and get a fish fry in Key West. We go back with Mike to when he was a boy and young man learning to hunt. He takes us with him hunting for big ducks on a big lake, a pond where he hunted for geese, the joys of hunting on Saturdays, and shooting rabbits in the snow. We go ice fishing when the walleyes went nuts on his favorite home lake and again on a northern Minnesota lake where friends gather in the winter for a special ice fishing event. The stories move from the past to the present. There are memories of Lake Michigan as a boy to many years later catching salmon there. There are recollections of fishing with his grandfather and father on a beloved river to now teaching his grandson to fish for bass. There are the days of unlimited joy of summer vacation as a boy to a perfect summer day catching smallmouth bass as a much older fisherman. The stories are more then just catching fish or shooting game. They are about people, both in the past and present, and the impact they have on the days of a hunter’s moon or a fisherman’s sun.

About the Author

Mike Yurk began writing while working as a newspaper reporter for three central Wisconsin newspapers in the late 1960s and early 70s. He enlisted in the Army in 1972. Mike’s military career took him all over the world where he fished in such places as Alabama, North Carolina, Missouri, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, finally returning to his home state of Wisconsin after retiring from the Army as a major. He has published over 800 articles in both regional and national publications. This is Mike’s sixth book with AuthorHouse. Mike and his wife Becky live in northwestern Wisconsin where he is working on his next book.