John's life story shows the reader that his life's experiences always revolved around fishing and the great outdoors. In his youth his family moved to many states with the military. With a fishing rod in his hand he would make friends with total strangers who sometimes became his mentors. As a young man in Alaska he made some wild reckless social decisions and still made time to fish. His priority's in life were always fishing, friendships, fishing, laughter, fishing, chase your dreams, fishing, and live a simple life-fishing. I Fished My Way Through Life shows the reader all of that. If you were fortunate enough to fish with John Lesterson you learned how to enjoy fishing and loved the stories he would tell.