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Strategies for fast, slow, dirty, high, or low water. Using familiar patterns and techniques in unusual ways. What to do when trout are uncooperative for no good reason.

What happens when a Korean-American preacher’s kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes...

From the time the PCT leaves the Mexican border, until it reaches Canada, it has traveled 2,650 miles through 24 national forests, 37 wilderness areas, and 7 national parks. In Pacific Crest Trail: Northern Cali-fornia, you'll meet up with the PCT in Yosemite National Park's Tuolumne Meadows, then...

• Second edition, completely updated in full color • Covers every water type--riffles, runs, pools, flats, pocket water, bank water • Learn how to find trout by studying currents, temperatures, oxygen levels, and food sources • 140 color photos pinpoint trout locations in specific water types

Originally published in 1964, Fisherman’s Fall brings a unique perspective to the world of fall fishing. In the preface, Robert L. Haig-Brown ruminates on the attempts to preserve the salmon and trout in the rivers of British Columbia. What we know could save them, yet what we do contradicts that...

UPDATED FOR 2019: How to Fly Fishing Guide – What is fly fishing? Fly Fishing is an angling method that aims to catch fish using artificial flies. Traditionally, salmon and trout are the types of fish caught using this method. But in recent times, a wide variety of fish have been added to...

From enchanted Hanelei Bay to the rainbows of Waimea Canyon, from Wailua Falls to the sculptured NaPali Coast, Kaua'i has an unmatchable landscape and miles of trails for hikers and backpackers. This new edition details 59 hikes: you'll walk along steep cliffs above turquoise water, relax next to...

Every fly angler has heard of the famed Green River, but the rest of Utah yields extraordinary, uncrowded and little known fishing. Waters flow through alpine regions, desert, and canyons. Author Steve Schmidt, outfitter and owner of Western Rivers Flyfishers in Salt Lake City has explored these waters...

Arizona has famous and little known fishing. Waters flow through desert, forest, lava fields, red rocks and canyons. Learn where to go and how to fish 24 fly fishing waters including mountain trout streams and lakes, bass waters and reservoirs. Top Arizona Fly Fishing Waters, Bartlett Reservoir, Black...

Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive guide features forty-seven trails in Big Bend National Park.

This book is a magnificently illustrated volume that will help anglers, scientists, and nature lovers to identify and appreciate North American freshwater game fish. Along with illustrations that showcase gender color variations for each species, Thompson provides information about fish biology, behavior,...

A compact, authoritative guide for freshwater fishing trips From one of the most respected names in the world of sportfishing comes the definitive, full-color guide to 140 of the most common freshwater fish species found in North American rivers, lakes, and streams. Featuring information on...

Written by an expert outfitter with boots in its waters, this piece includes a detailed map with access points along the river, information about gear, seasonal hatches, local lodges, fly shops, restaurants, watering holes, and closest medical care, along with the sort of intimate, insider information only someone working on the river can share. 

Trout is arguably the finest single volume ever produced on how, why, and where to catch trout. In spite of being originally published in 1938 (Penn Publishing Company), it remains utterly relevant.