Anatomy of a Fishing Season

The movie adaptation of Anatomy of a Murder was filmed in the Marquette area in 1959. The book’s author, John Voelker, was also a justice for the Supreme Court of Michigan, and—perhaps more important—a first-rate trout bum before trout bums were a thing. Here’s a look at the events that led up to that monumental year, and some highlights of the Upper Peninsula’s most famous angler’s fishing season .