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Reviews of Our Library! FLYCASTER'S LIBRARY BOOK REVIEWS By Ron Coulter, Former Librarian NYMPHING by Gary Borger is a model of what a "how-to" book should be. Basic to advanced nymph techniques are explained. Angler's Art calls it "One of the best fly fishing books in the last 30 years". FLY PATTERNS OF THE YELLOWSTONE----Craig Mathews and John Juracek. Have you read this book? We have had it in the library for two years and not many people have checked it out. Maybe you are waiting for the book review. Well, take it from one who has read the book, if you are going into the Yellowstone area for some fishing, this book is an absolute gem. It is written by the two guys who own the Blue Ribbon Fly Shop in West Yellowstone (and who advertise in our Newsletter--thanks very much!) and it contains great information on the flies which work well in the area. There is a picture of each fly, tying instructions, materials needed and information on how and where to fish each fly. Included are some favorites such as the Sparkle Dun, Prince Nymph, Little Yellow Stone Fly, PT nymph, Rusty Spinner, LaFontaine Sparkle Pupa, Antron Caddis, Elk Hair Caddis, Green Drake, and other flies and nymphs which work wonders in the waters of the Mecca of fly fishing. It's a slim volume, only about six inches high but remember, you can't tell a book by its cover or its size. You can catch a 24 incher on a size 24 fly. Ask the librarian if you can't find it in the stacks. He liked it so much that he bought his own copy. FLY FISHING THROUGH THE MIDLIFE CRISIS. by Howell Raines. It did not take long for Leonard's generous donation to the library to get checked out. Like a cutthroat rising to Rusty Spinners during the evening rise on the Yellowstone, it disappeared quickly. No wonder! This is an interesting saga of one man's journey from youth to middle age told through the metaphor of fly fishing. Raines is a Pulitzer Prize winning editor of the New York Times, a southern boy raised on bass and catfish and full buckets of dead fish. A real piscatorial predator disguised as a southern cracker/red-neck. He gets religion as he gets older (and as his life and marriage fall apart) in the form of fly fishing as taught by an x-CIA agent who is an accomplished Flycaster and devil-may-care raconteur. After a long study with the fly rod and line, Raines finally becomes a catch and release, Orvis equipped, Yuppie fly fisherman who realizes the wages of sin in his earlier days and annually repents on the Madison to atone for past sins. The rest of the time he fishes for 8 inch brookies on the Rapidan. Humorous, poignant, with some good fly fishing "stuff", I would rate this book 4 hooks and definitely worth the read, especially if you ever want to get to middle age. TROUT FLIES: PROVEN PATTERNS by Gary La Fontaine. Gary La Fontaine is a well known fly fishing writer who has added a lot of knowledge to the sport. His Caddis flies is a veritable masterpiece on this important trout food source. This new book contains the latest information about the new flies he has invented. His reputation as an innovative fly tier is well known---he invented the Emergent Sparkle Pupa and the Deep Sparkle Pupa flies. He even dons a wet suit and goggles and lies in wait under a rock to observe the trout in action. These new flies are really interesting, and some fly in the face of conventional wisdom. They don't look like the Catskill fly at all! He includes streamers, nymphs, wet flies, dries and emergers. They are all kind of strange looking but, as he explains, they all work pretty well. The Mess, the Duck Butt Dun, Halo flies, and egg patterns with marabou bodies make for some pretty interesting reading. For fly tiers and innovative fishermen, this is an ideal book. It is visionary and is bound to be controversial. English majors will have a ball criticizing Gary's style of hyperbole, hanging gerunds and syntactic inexactness. He writes a bit peculiarly, the art work on the flies is unremarkable (where is Mike Stidham when you need him?), the pictures are pretty good for you non-readers and the book is, enjoyably, easy to read. Each fly has its own section which includes Gary's practical application phase where he "only" catches 7-8 rainbows over 20 inches. It isn't often we go out on a limb on a book, but this one is worth all 5 hooks just because it is bound to generate controversy, experimentation and, probably, more fish in the landing net. It's available in the Library. WADE A LITTLE DEEPER, DEAR----Gwen Cooper and Evelyn Haas. This is a simple, straight forward helpful primer for women who want to take up fly fishing. It includes a wealth of practical fishing advice and information drawn from the broad experiences of the two authors. These ladies minded the stove and the kids or tagged along in campgrounds for years while their husbands had all of the fun. Then they jumped in and fell in love with the spirit of fly fishing. Our lady members would be interested in this book, and any husband who wants to take his wife or girlfriend along on a fishing trip (but remember, not both) would find this book a big help. Yes, there are some men who would actually consider it. There is nothing new or revolutionary about the contents of the book for the experienced fly fisherperson, but the authors point out that their husbands spend more time fishing now than they did before the wives took up the rod. Something to think about!! This is a fun book and is easy reading. It is from Lyons and Burford Publishers and is rated 3 hooks. MONTANA SPACES----John Kittredge, Editor. This is the book to be reading when the winter rains come or when you want to read about the wide open spaces of a place that is very special and very beautiful. This is a group of dramatic photographs and short stories and vignettes of Montana; the people who live there, the new comers, the fisherman, hunters, writers, cattlemen, cowboys, Orvis-ized yuppies, the land, the ranches, the wildlife and the big sky. If you have been there and fished the great rivers and marveled in the magnificence and beauty of Montana, then this book will bring you a special joy. It is not about great fishing, fast rivers and big fish; it is a celebration of Montana and the West. If you've been there, you will recognize it like an old friend. The knowing smiles and longing sighs at the end of each short story will take you back. If you haven't been there, it may convince you to finally go. It is rated 4 hooks and is from Lyons and Burford Publishers. EMERGERS----Doug Swisher and Carl Richards. For those of you who are serious students of the Fly and temporary entrapment of the eater of the Fly, and who want to do some more graduate work, this is the book for you. Even the most ardent dry fly purist knows (and grudging admits) that the trout feed on insects below the surface most of the time. Swisher and Richards, highly respected authors and fishermen, have carefully explained the aquatic insect from the time it comes off the bottom until it pops the surface and becomes a "dry fly". Do you really want to catch trout? Are you ready for some serious fishing? Then this book will really help you. It is about the insects, about the files that imitate them and the techniques to catch them. Serious fisherman only, Please! Good photos, nice color plates, excellent line drawings, detailed fly tying information and straight forward writing results in excellent reading about the mayflies, stoneflies and caddis that will land you the lunker and keep your graphite limber. From Lyons and Burford Publishers, it is a definite 5 hooks on the rating scale! A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT----Norman MacClean. You've probably seen the movie already, A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford and shot on the Yellowstone River near Livingston about fly fishermen and Montana in the 30's. Now Flycaster's has two copies of the book for our library. Now Flycaster's has the book for our library. It begins, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing". It only gets better from that point on. This book is back in print after a number of years and is an absolute gem. "River" is a novella or short novel, and the book also contains Logging and Pimping and "Your Pal, Jim" and USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky. It's Montana, and the people and fly fishing. It is a great book, so make your library reservations early. It is from the University of Chicago Press and is 5 hooks all the way! CALIFORNIA BLUE RIBBON TROUT STREAMS----Bill Sunderland and Dale Lackey Want to know where to fish for trout in California? Here is a book which will help. The list includes the Upper and Lower Sacramento, Lakes Siskiyou and Shasta, the McCloud, Trinity, Hat, Fall, Pit, Truckee, North Fork Stanislaus, Carson, Owens, Walker and the Kings River. Good info, nice color pictures, and handy maps which tell you where to go. There is also information on other fishing locations (streams and lakes) in the general area of these blue ribbon spots. There is only one detractor to this book---Dale Lackey tells you the best baits to use. How tacky of Lackey! But Bill talks fly fishing with credible authority. This is rated at 3½ hooks. THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER AND ITS ANGLING----Dave Hughes. Take a trip down the Yellowstone River with Dave Hughes from the Atlantic and Pacific creeks up on the Continental Divide where the Yellowstone is born in the Wyoming wilderness all the way down to Big Timber, Montana. Along the way you get a feel of the River as it winds its way to the lake, through the park over the falls and then down through the Paradise Valley. There is a lot of good fishing along the way. The best fishing is in the Hayden Valley of Yellowstone Park but you can't fish there, and Dave tells you why. Great pictures as well, which are not hard to get in this part of the world. It is an interesting and fun book to read, and it has a lot of pictures for the visual types. Rated at 3½ hooks. RIVER JOURNAL (The Madison River). From the piscatorially prolific pen of John Holt and the prodigiously productive presses of Frank Amato comes the first edition of River Journal...and your library is a charter subscriber to the River Journal. And what a place to start this series! The Madison River is one of the best trout streams in the world, and is a renowned and consistent producer of big rainbow and brown trout. Let John Holt (Knee Deep in Montana's Trout Streams) take you on a fishing guide's tour of the River from Colter's Hell (no relation) in the park, through Hegben and Quake Lakes, past the Slide Inn and the Old Kirby Place, under McAtee Bridge and all the way down to Beartrap Canyon past Ennis. The pictures are great and so is the fishing spot information about this world class blue ribbon trout stream. The bonus on page 44 is a full color plate of the flies that catch the big ones. This is a fun book and it's rated 4 hooks on the pictures alone. SIERRA TROUT GUIDE---Ralph Cutter. This is such a good book and has been so popular that we obtained a second copy. It has some great color fish plates and pictures. It tells a lot about the different strains of trout and how they are spread throughout the Sierra range. It is written by the son of the Cutter bug repellant man. It's a good book if you fish the Sierra's and worth an evening or two by the fireside. It won't tell you all of the good places to fish in the mountains, but you'll know a lot more about California Trout, fish management and backwoods ethics that you knew before you read it. A real gem of a book from Frank Amato Publications which is a lot of fun to read. It is rated 5 hooks! BUD LILLY'S GUIDE TO WESTERN FLY FISHING---Bud Lilly. This is an excellent guide with background information on the clothing, tackle, flies, guides, rivers, spring creeks, and lakes of the west. It is an excellent travel resource with many tips on western fishing. It is a lot of fun to read whether it's your first trip or your tenth. A must if you're going to the Rockies. MONTANA ANGLING GUIDE---Chuck Fothergill If you're going anywhere in Montana and you don't have this book (or have not read it) then you missed a great resource. We have a spiral bound volume with 53 detailed, annotated original maps folding out to 8 1/2 by 24. Yellowstone is covered in detail as well as Henry's Fork in the Island Park area. You name it (Gallatin, Madison, Missouri, Big Hole, Bitterroot, Lamar, Rock Creek) and this book has it. Access, wadeability, flies, seasonal variations, floatability and much more. The set of Montana maps will knock your neoprene socks off! You may want to buy your own personal copy when you go. KNEE DEEP IN MONTANA'S TROUT STREAMS----John Holt. Going to the Montana Rockies to fish the big ones---Yellowstone, Madison, The Park? Then don't bother with this one. There are no two-wading-staff river crossing techniques for the Madison, no months in advance reservations for a high priced rod on Armstrong's, and no secret camper parking spaces on Buffalo Ford. This is about the other Montana; the one without the crowds but with the rivers and the fish just the same. John Holt is a native, and he takes you to some fun fishing on the Bitterroot, Rock Creek, Flathead, St. Mary’s, Musselshell, Clark Fork, Big Spring Creek, Big Horn River, the Missouri, the Big Hole, the Beaverhead, the Kootenai and the Gallatin. If you are interested in some really good places to fish in Montana, then this is the right book. It is a lot of fun to read and is a good resource to get a feel for the river. From Pruett Publishing, it is rated 4 hooks! VCR TAPE REVIEW: SUCCESSFUL FLY FISHING STRATEGIES---Dick Sharon and Gary La Fontaine. We have already received a set of tapes for this year and they are hot from the San Mateo show. I got them from Dick Sharon of Dillon, Montana who is starring in a 2 volume series with the inimitable Gary LaFontaine. This is a really informative, entertaining and beautifully produced fly fishing video. It is superior production in all respects (a far cry for our "Grunko" films) It is too well done to be a fly fishing video! It is really first class. They fish with nymphs, dry flies, emergers and deep water nymphs on rivers and from float tubes. They cover tandem rigs (two flies at once), strike indicators, line mending, and lots of other techniques. They fish the Beaverhead and the Big Hole Rivers and the scenery and the water is beautiful. It is well written, well directed, photography is very professional and is a very enjoyable set of tapes. Even if you don't learn anything, you will enjoy the tapes. FISHING YELLOWSTONE HATCHES----Craig Mathews and John Juracek. If you go to the Yellowstone area or are thinking of it, this book is MUST READ material. If you want pretty pictures of rivers, animals and lakes, go elsewhere. This book discusses the insects that the trout eat. They use Latin names so you learn that the Ephemerella infrequens is the Pale Morning Dun (or PMD) but what is more important is that you learn when you will see this fly on the stream and what it will look like. They have dressings for the flies to match the different stages of emergence of the insects. They have hatch charts and fly selections for each species of mayfly and caddis with Stoneflies and some other insects thrown in for completeness. They describe the nymphs, emergers, duns, and spinners so you will know what to use and when to use them. I have personally used their information and cross checked it against other sources and on-site observation and it is accurate and really works. If you are standing in the Yellowstone River in September, you will see all kinds of Blue Winged Olives. But now you will know that the Baetis Punctiventris is hatching and they are a size 20-22 fly with a bright green body rather than the earlier Baetis Tricaudatus with the olive-brown body in size 18. Does it make a difference? It can if you want to catch selective trout. Their recommendations on how to fish the flies (and Craig's famous Sparkle Duns and X-Caddis are included in their lists of flies) and the broad coverage they give of the Yellowstone region definitely gives the angler an edge. The volume is small and compact, and is a companion to their Fly Patterns of the Yellowstone book. I have read both of these books (and they are in my personal library) and they really do make a difference. The first year I fished the Yellowstone River in the Park, I spent two days flailing the water with attractors without any success. I mean---no fish at all, zip, zero, nil, ought, naught, a real <null> set! I hastily retreated to the Madison where at least I could catch some fish. After reading the Hatches book, I bought a sparkle dun, sparkle spinner, x-caddis and some Z-lon from Blue Ribbon's Fly Shop and that winter I tied up a bunch of flies using the sizes and dressings recommended in the book. I carefully mapped out the hatches for mayflies and caddis. I already knew the How. Now I knew What, Where and When. When I returned to the same location on the Yellowstone in August (after the fish had been "fished over" a bit), I had the size 18 PMD sparkle dun that I needed. I had rusty spinners in sizes 14 to 18 (For PMDs, Flavs, and Blue Winged Olives) and size 10-12 Gray Drake Spinners. I had tan elk hair caddis, X-caddis and emergent sparkle pupas in sizes 14 and 16 for the Hydropsyche caddis. Well, you can probably guess what I will tell you next. We scored big time! We had no trouble consistently landing those beautiful Yellowstone cutthroats for three fun-filled days. I have a picture of a 21 incher! It's the scientific approach and there really is something to it....it works! Craig and John's book has done all the work for you. If you follow the information they provide, you will have the right fly at the right time at the right river. The rest is up to you. I highly recommend this book. THE ORVIS FLY FISHING GUIDE----Tom Rosenbauer. The Orvis bashers, who seem to put down anything even remotely related to Orvis or Orvis products, may label me a fly fishing yuppie, but I like this book... and I am not a gynecologist from Chicago or a stockbroker from Boston with $2000 of new Orvis gear (including seine net and stomach pump) standing smack in the middle of a prime run casting wind knots! This is a great book if you are a novice and a good review for anyone who thinks he is an expert. As Tom Rosenbauer notes, his book presents "the bare bones of fly fishing." It does not attempt to tell you everything, but rather to give a balanced introduction to equipment, casting, entomology, fly selection, and stream tactics. The majority of the information is geared toward trout fishing, but he also discusses most other flyrod gamefish, at least to the extent of discussing their feeding habits and suggesting appropriate flies. After an introductory chapter ("What is Fly Fishing?"), in which he discusses the advantages of fly fishing and how it differs from other types of angling, the author presents three chapters on equipment....fly rods and line weights, lines and reels, and leaders and knots. These chapters take much of the mystery out of equipment selection. Rosenbauer discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different rod materials, which line weights are appropriate for which fish, and the uses of different tapers and line types. There are useful illustrations for how to tie the surgeon's knot, barrel knot, perfection loop, surgeon's loop, clinch knot, turle knot, looptoloop connection, Albright knot, and nail knot. He also deals with fly casting but you should consult Mel Krieger's The Essence of Fly Casting if you want the best information on casting (We have it and the videos in the Library---Check Left Kreh's Fly casting video as well). There are better books on beginning fly casting than this one. In "Flies" and "Fly Selection", Rosenbauer goes a long way toward clearing up a novice's questions about what different types of flies look like and what they do. He gives a lot more information than just the difference between wet and dry flies. He presents hook terminology, the parts of wet and dry flies, a brief primer on aquatic entomology, and a brief discussion of the characteristics of all sorts of flies, from classic dries to saltwater and shad patterns. He makes clear the differences between the various types of dryfly patterns---no hackles, thorax ties, comparaduns, etc. He also discusses how to make good fly choices during both hatch and nonhatch situations. He explains how to read the rise when trout fishing and gives suggestions for choosing flies for other species. He also presents a list of recommended flies and his selection is a good place for the novice to start. In "Stream Tactics", he presents a whirlwind tour of trout fishing in moving water, from the senses of the trout to holding lies to basic tactics for dry, wet, nymph, and streamer fishing. He packs a lot of useful information into this chapter and the one on stillwater tactics. He also spends some time on bass, panfish, salmon, steelhead and saltwater fly fishing. The book provides information on the selection and care of fishing tackle most of which appears to have come from the Orvis FlyFishing Equipment catalog (wonder how that happened?). This is really an excellent introduction to flyfishing. This book will give the novice and first time flyfisherman all he needs to get started and quite a bit to learn on for some time. DAVE WHITLOCK'S GUIDE TO AQUATIC TROUT FOODS---- By Dave Whitlock. This a bug book! But it is an outstanding bug book. For people who are fairly new to stream fishing and fly tying, this book puts a whole lot of stuff into perspective. You've heard words like spinner, dun, pupa, emerger, caddis, larvae, mayflies and so on, but can you put these terms into their proper use and match them to their fly counterparts? You don't have to know Latin to understand this book and you don't have to be a bug-ologist either. The whole thing is simple: Trout eat bugs (i.e., aquatic insects) most of the time. They eat with their mouths. If you want to catch trout in the mouth, you have to fish with bugs on hooks. Maybe that's too simple. Your flies imitate aquatic insects (dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, and other assorted insect-like creations) and the trout will eat your offering before he will eat a hamburger or pasta primavera. We won't get into worms or cheese balls or other such trout junk food since we all know that trout are like us in some ways---they just can't resist a bag of Lay's or an occasional jelly donut in a moment of weakness! We are talking about normal trout food. If you know what food to present to a trout, you are half-way there to catching him. Dave Whitlock's book deals with all important fresh water trout food species from mayflies, caddis flies and stoneflies to dragon flies, damsels, scuds, shrimp and leeches. Every group is described in wonderful detail. Their individual life cycle is very important to understand especially when it comes to imitating them under and on top of the water. Dave deals with the insects, the flies that imitate them, and very importantly, the tactics with those flies to catch the fish. This is a great help to people who can tie a nymph or emerger pattern on their line, but don't really know how to fish them. The book starts out with a general overview of the concept of imitating insects with fly patterns and is followed by a chapter on reading the water. Dave follows this with a chapter on the trout and how they exist in their habitat. This is important stuff. The more you know about your quarry, the better you will be able to catch him. Think of yourself as the hunter. The patterns he presents are all fairly simple and easy to tie but this book is not what you would call a fly tying guide. There's typically one pattern for each stage of each group of insects. Some flies are presented with two different patterns using different materials or techniques. He is suggesting the type of fly pattern to use for each stage of the insects life. The size, color and shape depend upon a certain insect, and there are other books in the library that will give you those details. This is not an Ephemerella Infrequens book. Dave's excellent drawings of the insect life cycles in his book are very important to understand because, if you know the life cycle and the forms that the insect takes during the life cycle, it will better prepare you to fish the flies that imitate that insect on and in the water. There is also a large section with color plates of the food species for those of you who like pictures of real bugs. If you are new to river, lake and stream fishing, this book is essential to your understanding of what is happening under and on top of the water and what the trout should be feeding on. If you are an old hand, you should know this stuff cold and this book is a really good refresher and an excellent resource. You learn more with every rereading. It is a great source of information on trout food, and it addresses all of the important issues: feeding habits, life cycles, imitations and equipment and strategy. It is in the Flycaster's library and on better fisherman's personal book shelves. Try it and see if it does not improve your fishing knowledge and ability. FLY CASTING WITH LEFTY KREH---VCR Tape Do you know Lefty's five principles of fly casting? You will when you watch this tape. If you saw Lefty at San Mateo this past spring, you know what his fly casting technique looks like. He is a master caster! This is an excellent VCR tape on the technical aspects fly casting for the polished flycaster as well as the neophyte. The techniques make a lot of sense and they work.....backyard tests of the "speed up and stop" method of distance casting are the proof. You won't go wrong on this tape, and you'll get some good sights of the Madison River to boot. No matter how good you are, you will learn from this tape. Try it and see. Definitely 5 hooks on technical content. THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER AND ITS ANGLING----Dave Hughes Take a trip down the Yellowstone River with Dave Hughes from the Atlantic and Pacific creeks up on the Continental Divide where the Yellowstone is born in the Wyoming wilderness all the way down to Big Timber, Montana. Along the way you get a feel of the River as it winds its way to the lake, through the park over the falls and then down through the Paradise Valley. There is a lot of good fishing along the way. The best fishing is in the Hayden Valley of Yellowstone Park but you can't fish there, and Dave tells you why. Great pictures as well, which are not hard to get in this part of the world. It is an interesting and fun book to read, and it has a lot of pictures for the visual types. Rated at 3½ hooks. NYMPHING WITH GARY BORGER----VCR Tape Do you have a half hour to spend to Gary Borger on a Montana trout stream taking a lesson on how to tie and fish the nymph? Do you know that the trout eats 90% of its food below the surface and some big ones will only eat down under? Well the good fisherman know this, and Gary can help you to catch more trout through nymphing with this tape. It's an excellent tape and the scenery in it is worth the price of admission. Combined this tape with Gary's book, Nymphing (it's in the library) and you are on your way to catching more fish. The book is a model of what a "how-to" book should look like with basic to advanced nymph techniques explained. Angler's Art calls it "One of the best fly fishing books in the last 30 years". Combine with the tape, we're talking 4½ hooks and lots more fish. WADE A LITTLE DEEPER, DEAR----Gwen Cooper and Evelyn Haas This is a simple, straight forward helpful primer for women who want to take up fly fishing. It includes a wealth of practical fishing advice and information drawn from the broad experiences of the two authors. These ladies minded the stove and the kids or tagged along in campgrounds for years while their husbands had all of the fun. Then they jumped in and fell in love with the spirit of fly fishing. Our lady members would be interested in this book, and any husband who wants to take his wife or girlfriend along on a fishing trip (but remember, don't take both) would find this book a big help. Yes, there are some men who would actually consider it. There is nothing new or revolutionary about the contents of the book for the experienced fly fisherperson, but the authors point out that their husbands spend more time fishing now than they did before the wives took up the rod. Something to think about!! This is a fun book and is easy reading. It is from Lyons and Burford Publishers and is rated 3 hooks. Ramblings you can use: (may need some editorial updating) For our fly tiers, we will have a replacement copy of Tying Flies with Jack Dennis and Friends by Jack Dennis for the next meeting. The original copy of this book was lifted by a former member who is long gone to other parts of the world. It is full of great up-to-date western flies. In the stacks now is a copy of Ken Hanley's California Fly Tying and Fishing Guide which is a very handy little reference to California flies for both fresh and salt water. By the way, last year we bought a copy of Ken's book on fishing in salt water after his excellent talk to the club, but the member who borrowed it before it went into the library stacks has never brought it back. In the special technique area, we have Drift Boat Fly Fishing by Neale Streeks and Mastering the Spring Creeks by John Shewey. These are really good technical books if you are into drift floating or the difficult spring creeks. They have lots of pictures, which makes it an easy read if you are in the skim mode. Nymph Fishing by Dave Hughes is another fine book with lots of pictures and helpful hints about fishing under the surface. Not a bad technique to learn when you consider that trout feed below the surface about 85% of the time. Dave makes it look easy. For the Montana crowd, we have a new River Journal, the Big Hole by Steve Probasco. Looks good to me! Which way to Dillon and Wisdom? Did you know that the Ruby River and the Beaverhead River meet the Big Hole River to form the Jefferson River? That sounds like a lot of good trout water! The river map, fly recommendations and access points will come in handy for me this summer. We also have Fishing Yellowstone Waters by Charles Brooks, a well known authority on the area, who gives a great overview on each of the famous waters in the area: Madison, Gallatin, Slough Creek, Lamar, Firehole, Gibbon, Gardner, the famous Yellowstone and others. It is a great resource. We have added a seminal work on the area, destined to become a Yellowstone classic with Fishing Yellowstone Hatches by Craig Mathews and John Juracek of Blue Ribbon Flies. We also have River Journals on Yellowstone Park and Henry's Fork.

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