Grab your gear and take a fishing trip across the country with over twenty-five of the world’s fly-fishing experts. Over 1,001 of the best fly-fishing tips compiled by the former managing editor of Fly Fisherman magazine cover essentials for trout to tarpon such as:

casting with Lefty Kreh • matching the hatch with Charlie Meck • taking great fish photos with Barry and Cathy Beck • mastering mayflies with John Barr • catching selective trout with Mike Lawson • West Coast stripers with Dan Blanton • steelhead secrets with Lani Waller • surf fishing with Bob Popovics • trophy smallmouth with Bob Clouser

With a clear, easy-to-use format, over 200 illustrations from renowned artist Dave Hall, and encyclopedic coverage of almost everything that’s important to know about fresh and saltwater fly fishing, this book will help beginners and experts alike catch more fish - on home waters and abroad.

Contributors include George Anderson, John Barr, Barry and Cathy Beck, Brad Befus, Dan Blanton, Brian Chan, Bob Clouser, Charlie Craven, Dick Galland, Simon Gawesworth, Ed Jaworowski, Lefty Kreh, Mike Lawson, Landon Mayer, Charles Meck, Bob Popovics, John Randolph, Scott Sanchez, Lani Waller, Paul Weamer

Jay Nichols is the former managing editor of Fly Fisherman magazine and lives in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. Illustrator Dave Hall lives in Glide, Oregon.

Steelhead legend Lani Waller covers the essential elements of fishing for trophy steelhead with prose as beautiful and surprising as the fish themselves. The blend of how-to and why-to not only captures the essence of these elusive fish but also uncovers what it takes to consistently bring them to hand.

Waller shares his techniques for swinging wets and waking dry flies, including proper approach, presentation, and his favorite fly patterns, both classic and contemporary. Chapters on hunting trophies, equipment, casting, and conservation provide readers with a life's worth of wisdom learned from his time on the water. Photographer Ken Morrish's stunning images capture the magic of the fish and the rivers they ascend each year

This all-star cast of steelhead fanatics (color illustrations by Dave Hall, and a chapter on biology by Bob Hooton) has
created a classic book that honors the fish as well as those who chase them, whether in the Pacific Northwest of
United States, the wilderness streams of British Columbia, or the hundreds of tributaries that run into the Great Lakes.
Lani Waller has pursued steelhead for over four decades and is considered one of the foremost experts on trophy
British Columbia steelhead.

One of the nation’s most influential political cartoonists takes a look at the present state of fly fishing in this long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Fear of Fly Fishing. With the wit and satire his nationally syndicated cartoons are known for, Ohman sets his hooks into everything from fishing partners, Eastern versus Western anglers, and fly fishing versus golf. This light-hearted book will have all anglers, whether new to the sport or veterans, reeling in laughter.

Jack Ohman is one of the most widely syndicated political cartoonists in the United States with his work appearing in 300 newspapers. His work appears regularly in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, and scores of other major newspapers. His work has also appeared in Newsweek and National Review. People magazine has called Ohman's cartoons “uncompromising, the most wicked and the most pointedly funny” on today’s op-ed pages. His book Fear of Fly Fishing hit number five on the Seattle Times best seller list. He has been the editorial cartoonist for The Oregonian since 1983 and lives in Portland, Oregon.

In this collection of essays, award-winning humorist Jack Ohman explores the psychological state known as fly fishing, from the gear addict ("Screw justification-you just get the second rod. Black budget it. Bury it in the Christmas tree appropriations bill . . . ") to the trout numb ("Freezing rain. Nuclear blast- speed wind. Icy pellets smashing into my face like 12-ought buckshot. Nothing. I felt nothing, really, nothing but happiness.") With over 50 new cartoons and writing that will have beginner and experienced anglers alike rolling on the floor, Angler Management is must-read comic relief for fly fishers who have gone off the deep end.

Jack Ohman's cartoons appear regularly in The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, and scores of other major newspapers. People magazine has called Ohman's cartoons "uncompromising, the most wicked and the most pointedly funny" on today's op-ed pages. He is the author of An Inconvenient Trout (978-0-9793460-7-1). He has been the editorial cartoonist for The Oregonian since 1983 and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Learn to tie 17 popular nymphs, dry flies, and streamers • Master fundamental tying techniques in a series of practical lessons

Charlie Craven’s Basic Fly Tying is a modern course in fly-tying fundamentals covering the essential tools, materials, and techniques to tie a wide range of popular flies. With 1,000 photos, Craven covers cutting-edge techniques for the more tried-and-true classics, such as the Royal Wulff, Adams, and Hare’s Ear, and shares innovative approaches to current patterns such as the Brassie, RS2, and Copper John.

With clear, concise text Craven provides tips and techniques from his over thirty years of tying flies for fly shops on Colorado’s Front Range. This book is built on Craven’s successful fly-tying classes, which start out with simple flies and work toward more complex patterns, all the while teaching techniques and introducing materials by tying popular patterns for Eastern and Western streams that catch fish. This series of lessons show how flies build on one another, enabling readers to tie a wide range of patterns simply by breaking them down into parts, as Craven illustrates with his meticulous directions to fingerbusters like Copper Johns, Stimulators, and Humpies.

This book, which is sure to become a standard text for basic fly tying, covers 17 flies (including recipes for popular variations) including the Brassie, Black Beauty, RS2, Hare’s Ear, Pheasant Tail, Prince Nymph, Copper John, Woolly Bugger, Elk Hair Caddis, Stimulator, Adams, Rusty Spinner, Parachute Blue-Winged Olive, X Comparadun, Royal Wulff, Humpy, and Goddard Caddis.

Charlie Craven is president of Charlie’s Fly Box in Old Towne Arvada, Colorado. He designs flies for Umpqua Feather Merchants and was the fly tier and photographer for Barr Flies (Stackpole Books 2007).

Angling legend Charles Meck covers tandems top to bottom with his favorite flies for matching hatches, as well as tried-and-true patterns for drumming up fish during summer doldrums and other tough conditions. In the first book devoted entirely to fishing more than one fly at once, Meck discusses seven of the most effective rigs and the best times to use them, including detailed steps showing how to tie his new looped-leader series of flies. Whether casting to the banks from a drift-boat on Montana’s Missouri River or stalking central Pennsylvania spring-creek trout, anglers across the country will learn something from this book to help them catch more trout.

In this book you’ll learn:

• How to match the hatch with the tandem and the different depths at which common insects emerge
• How to tie and fish the author’s new Looped Leader series of flies
• How to rig and fish seven tandem rigs:

Looped Leader • Moveable Dropper • Bend • Two Eye • Tag • Dropper • Dropper Loop

Also included in this book are recipes, tying notes, and fishing information for more than 20 of the author’s most dependable patterns.

Charles Meck is the author of more than twelve fly fishing books, and his writing appears regularly in Mid Atlantic Fly Fishing Guide and Fly Fisherman. He lives in Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania, and Mesa, Arizona.

In High Rollers, artist and hardcore angler Bill Bishop tackles all aspects of tarpon fishing--from building leaders to bringing fish in quickly. Each chapter explores the core aspects of tarpon fishing in detail, including step-by-step instructions for tying IGFA leaders; the nuances of finding, casting to, hooking, and fighting giant tarpon; and insights and tips for running the boat, seeing fish, and reading the fish's behavior. In addition to the technical aspects, Bishop's stories and humor take a look at the personal side of fishing, reminding us that despite the serious undertaking of battling a 150-pound tarpon, fishing is still supposed to be fun.

With over 120 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations and stunning photos by photographer Mark Hatter, this book will help anyone who wants to hook, and land, more silver kings.

Detailed illustrations and text provide insight into * Tying and rigging lines and leaders * Boat-handling tips * Approaching and feeding fish * Setting the hook * Fighting and landing fish quickly and safely.

Midges may be small, but in many streams and lakes around the world they are the most important year-round food source for trout. Rick Takahashi and Jerry Hubka team up to provide readers with the most comprehensive midge pattern and fishing techniques resource to date. Stunning photos and detailed illustrations show the life cycle of the naturals, fishing and rigging techniques for a wide range of waters, and over 1,000 midge patterns. Whether you tie or buy your flies, this collection of cutting-edge advice from experts around the world will help you catch more fish.

Rick Takahashi is a frequent contributor to Fly Fisherman magazine and designer for Umpqua Feather Merchants. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Jerry Hubka is a commercial artist and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Whether you fish for stripers with a fly, plug, or bait, this comprehensive resource for catching trophy fish in shallow water will become an indispensable guide. This book includes chapters on rigging and presentation, the best lures and flies, fishing the flats and estuaries, finding and targeting large fish, and boat electronics from a master angler who has, so far in his career, helped anglers land an amazing number of stripers over 30 pounds, including hundreds over 40 pounds. If you are looking to catch a fish of a lifetime--whether you target stripers in the Northeast or on the West Coast, or fish stillwaters across the country for hybrids--this book is essential reading.

Captain Jim White(www.shallowwaterstripers.com) is owner of White Ghost Charters, which specializes in light tackle and fly fishing for trophy stripers in Narragansett Bay, and lives in Coventry, Rhode Island.

Charlie Meck and Paul Weamer team up to provide a concise overview of the most important hatches on Pennsylvania trout streams, including mayflies, caddis, stoneflies, midges, as well as other important trout-stream foods. This handy guide includes color photos of each insect as well as recipes and photos of the authors' recommended fly patterns for each hatch. Detailed charts at the beginning of each section provide a quick reference for emergence dates and size of the insects.

After an overview of the life cycle of each of the major classes of insects, individual entries provide essential information such as common and Latin names, size range (hook and natural), and time and date of emergence. Meck and Weamer provide in-depth descriptions of all life stages of the insect, emergence time and date, behavior, tactics, and the premier streams in the state to find the best hatches. Meck's intimate knowledge of the hatches around the state combined with Weamer's penchant for the perfect pattern make this book a must-have reference for anyone who fishes trout streams in the Keystone State.

Charles Meck lives in Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania, and in Mesa, Arizona. He is the author of many fly-fishing
and fly-tying books including Fishing Tandem Flies (Headwater Books, 2007). Paul Weamer manages the TCO Fly Shop
in State College, Pennsylvania, and is the author of Fly Fishing Guide to Upper Delaware River (Stackpole Books, 2008).
He lives in Coburn, Pennsylvania.

Spring creeks, those rare waters that flow right out of the earth - in whole or in part - are both a blessing and a curse for anglers. They are a blessing because the clear, cold, nutrient-rich waters grow abundant insects, which in turn grow and sustain large populations of healthy trout. They flow free of ice in the winter and run cool during the hottest parts of summer, providing year-round angling. In many ways, this bounty becomes a curse, because the abundance and steady supply of food can spoil the trout, making them less likely to take a piece of fluff and feathers. Many spring creeks are also small, their challenges enhanced by weed-choked runs and tricky currents.

Mike Heck, expert fly tier and guide from south-central Pennsylvania, the cradle of American spring-creek country, shares the tactics and techniques he teaches his clients to catch these tough trout. Heck includes his top fly patterns, tips on matching the major hatches of Tricos, Baetis, and Sulphurs (PMDs), and his thoughts on stealth and presentation. Whether you fish Letort Spring Run in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, or DePuy’s Spring Creek in Livingston, Montana, Heck’s Spring Creek Strategies will help you become a more successful angler.

Mike Heck grew up fishing the spring creeks of south-central Pennsylvania. He is an Orvis-endorsed guide, fly designer, and contributor to Fly Fisherman, American Angler, and other publications. He lives in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

• New series of fly fishing guides covering only the best waters, written by local experts
• Detailed maps created with latest GIS mapping software- more accurate than any previous fly-fishing guidebook maps
• Covers trout streams and rivers of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky
• Includes Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation-s most popular national park with more than 9 million visitors per year

Whether you are flying through Atlanta on business (the Chattahoochee River provides superb fishing just outside of city limits) or taking an extended trip into the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this guide gives you the information you need for a successful fishing trip. With stunning photos, detailed hatch charts for each river, photos and recipes of the most effective fly patterns, and insider information from local guides and outfitters, this book is an essential reference for the south’s best trout fishing.

Formerly a fishing guide and director of travel at The Fish Hawk in Atlanta, James Buice is a fly-fishing manufacturers’ epresentative in the southeast and a frequent contributor to American Angler and Fly Fisherman magazines. He lives in Canton, Georgia.

• Color photos of never-before-seen flies from the vaults of the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum
• Detailed tying steps for 11 patterns
• First book that compares the styles of all of the Catskill school of fly tiers

The Catskills region of the eastern United States, just two hours northeast of New York City, was the birthplace for a uniquely American style of fly that continues to grace the bins of fly shops around the world.

Mike Valla explores the essence of Catskill flies, delving into the history of the region-s rivers, fly fishers, and fly tiers and blending their colorful histories with precise step-by-step tying methods. This book is essential for those not only interested in learning to tie the Catskill-style flies, but also those interested in the history of American fly fishing.

Mike Valla has published articles in Fly Fisherman, The American Fly Fisher, and a variety of other journals. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

In Tying Furled Flies, author Ken Hanley introduces readers to furling, the technique of twisting materials together to form bodies (and other parts) on flies. Furling has unlimited potential for creating distinctive mottled and variegated patterns to imitate some of the common (and not so common) foods that trout, bass, and steelhead feed on. Hanley offers insights on how to fish these patterns using techniques from standard presentations to more radical “puppeteering” to entice fish to strike.

With 500 photos, readers will learn to tie the Hex Magic, Green Drake, Generic Spinner, Rockworm Larva, October Blimp, Skwalafied, FYS (Furled Yellow Sally) Stone, Salt-n-Pepper, Green, Tan and Yellow, and Indicator Pygmy Hoppers, Furled Cricket, Damselfly Teneral, Green Darner (Male and Female), Pondhawk (Female), Flame and Neon Skimmer, Pacific Spiketail (Male), and Furled Alevin.

Ken Hanley travels the world conducting fishing and adventure specialty programs. A 2005 inductee into the
NCC/FFF Fly Fishing Hall of Fame, Hanley is the author of six books and has been featured in two instructional DVDs.
He also writes and photographs for national and regional publications in the outdoor industry. He lives in Fremont, California.