The Orvis Guide To Reading Trout Streams

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Summary: Another excellent Rosenbauer/Orvis Publication !!
Review: All of the Orvis Streamside guides, most of them seemingly written by Tom Rosenbauer, are excellent guides to strategy and the flyfishing approach. (Well alright, maybe the one about knots wasn't all that scintillating, but probably great info. for newbies, I suppose.) This guide is no exception - clear, consice and well-written, unlike this review. Well worth adding to your flyfishing bookcase. It's a great guide to what you'll need to do to hit trout when they don't seem to be actively feeding on anything. These insights could well salvage a day streamside.

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Summary: the very best of its kind
Review: rosenbauer's books are, in my opinion, the very best introductory and intermediate fly fishing books available. this particular book about reading trout streams is an absolulte gem; we learn about different water types, the needs of trout, the relationship between water type and insect activity, etc.

everyone needs to learn to cast, tie knots and identify basic kinds of trout foods; this book will help any fly fisherman better understand where in the water the trout actually hold, how flows and other seasonal changes affect trout habitat, and will eliminate some of the time that we all waste fishing 'dead water.' an excellent read and even better teaching material.