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Summary: Don't know what all of the hype is!
Review: I don't know if it was because the author himself really thought this was a good book, or if it was because I had other things on my mind while reading it. Rex Johnson is a fair writer, and does provide interesting information at times. However, I found myself falling asleep, slobering while I was reading it. I guess fly fishing is not for me! Illustrations in the book are up to par. If you like fly fishing, maybe, borrow it before you think about buying it. Really!
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Summary: A great book for a beautiful area.
Review: I have been a fly fisherman from time to time over the last ten years or so, and I lived in the Southwest from 1977 until 1998. My family returned to the area for a vacation and re-visited the Gila National Forest last summer, equipped with a lot of fishing gear and Rex's book. FFSNM seemed to bring the Gila's trout streams to life. This book is a kind of "sleeper'. Not many people have read it, but it's a good example of quality outdoing quantity. A lot of really good things in this world, like this book, remain overlooked, but that's probably fortunate in this case, because, like Rex Johnson, Jr., I liked having the Gila all to myself.
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Summary: Rex johnson, Jr. has a few words to say about FFSNM .
Review: I'm Rex Johnson, one of the book's co-authors. Our book willed itself into being, due to a mutual obsession with the beautiful, remote little streams tucked away in seldom-visited mountain ranges of southern New Mexico. I never get tired of looking at these mountains.My co-author Ronald Smorynski was out on the Rio Ruidoso on the second week ofJanuary, 1999, and got eight or so nice browns during one of our sporadic afternoon January Baetis hatches. There is such a smorgasbord of food in these streams that the trout gnerally don't bother with most hatches in the warmer months. Strange to relate, you can fish every month of the year for wild fish. I belong to an environmental group, Southwest Trout, which is trying to restore the native trout species of the Southwest and also northern Mexico, of which there are several. Some of the streams highlighted in Flyfishing Southern New Mexico are unfished for months, years, in nearly 1 million acres of federally protected wilderness areas. Also, stay tuned this spring for Near the Rim, through Frank Amato Publications. This book, patterned after FFSNM, highlights more than 300 streams in Arizona which even today support at least some wild trout populations. Some of these streams are unique--for instance, Thunder River, arising from the aptly named Roaring Springs near the bottom of the Grand Canyon., which has to be the Ultimate Spring Creek. If you want to fish it, get a physical and an angiogram, and start cross-training now..... I'll be travelling deep into the Sierra Madre this year, in an ongoing effort to track the four to seven endemic trout species of the Sierra Madre Occidental. This is truly one of the last frontiers of fly-fishing. Everyone needs a good obsession. These trout have been mine, for decades..
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Summary: A Fine Gila Wilderness Primer
Review: The kind of "excellence" described in the author's (excellent) introduction pervades this detailed guide. Historical anecdote is meticulously intertwined with drily philosophical musings on the uneasy relationship between cow, cowboy and trout. Tips for fly types and sizes,line weights, rod lengths and other technicia may seem somewhat cursory,as the author's great affinity is not for technique and equipment but for the wild trout he has caught here. There is a certain "reading between the lines," necessary to get full benefit from this book -- in this way it can be as rewarding (or frustrating) as what is sometimes called literature.
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Summary: A Fine Gila Wilderness Primer
Review: The kind of "excellence" described in the author's (excellent) introduction pervades this detailed guide. Historical anecdote is meticulously intertwined with drily philosophical musings on the uneasy relationship between cow, cowboy and trout. Tips for fly types and sizes,line weights, rod lengths and other technicia may seem somewhat cursory,as the author's great affinity is not for technique and equipment but for the wild trout he has caught here. There is a certain "reading between the lines," necessary to get full benefit from this book -- in this way it can be as rewarding (or frustrating) as what is sometimes called literature.
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Summary: A hidden world in the Gila
Review: This book is simply the best available for southern New Mexico, and one of the bext of its type. Very comprehensive. It's clear that the author has actually been to and caught fish at the many remote spots he describes, over a period of many years. If you are even thinking of visiting the remote mountains of southern New Mexico, this is for your bookshelf
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Summary: Extremely informative, and a good read.
Review: This is a great book. It's as much a piece of literature as a book about fishing..
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