The Orvis Guide to Best Trout Flies : Orvis-endorsed Guides Pick Their Favorite Flies, and Tell How to Fish Them

From the guides whose living depends on choosing the right patterns, here is an invaluable book on selecting and using flies. Too many anglers find themselves taking expensive trips to gorgeous waters, and arriving with the wrong flies, partially because the flies featured in magazines and touted in guidebooks aren't always the best flies for that region. But guides know which ones work. They have to. Here is local knowledge ripped right off the vest of some of America's premier guides, with specialists revealing what they carry to fisheries in New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, the Midwest, the Rockies, Alaska, Canada, the Southern tail waters, and everywhere in between. Guides talk about the patterns they never leave home without, the ones they take for specific seasons, and the streamers they use when clients are ready for the bigger action. Each section includes a full page with a colour photo of the pattern and the fishery. Listed are the top-five dry flies, nymphs, and streamers with discussions of the best fishing methods, and instructions for tying one fly in each section. All of the flies are available commercially, as well, and there are helpful hints on buying flies. "The Orvis Guide to Best Trout Flies" is the closest an angler can get to fishing with a live guide.