FLY FISHING CANADA from Coast to Coast to Coast shows a variety of waters professionally covered by members of the Outdoor Writers of Canada. Robert Jones, the editor selected the best species, the best writers and some amazingly attractive photos. I rarely review books, and almost never prepublication volumes not my own, but this is the best book on Canadian fishing ever.
All those directions and possibilities look particulary good as I write this because I just got back from a Canadian fishing trip where the Dude ranch's "private trout stream" looked more like an irrigation ditch and the shower didn't work the last of our two days of a truncated week. Fortunately, we headed home via the Bow River down from Calgary that, will not produtcing trout at the same rate after the new sewerage plant, is still one of teh best trout streams in North America.
I've fished a number of the waters mentioned, and there's particularly strong coverage of Vancouver Island, the Maritimes and the Far North. But the best thing about this book is the breath of species and, within the broad genre of fly fishing, the methods. There's a great section on trolling flies, for example, and that's a system that's saved many a day for guides when clients casting skills failed. Another chapter, by the book's editor, covers saltwater bucktailing for salmon, that's surely one of the most delightful ways to enjoy high jumping silvers with minimal effort.
The illustrations, particularily of special Canadian patterns, with asssociated materials lists and instructions are quite good and the "grin and grab" shots of author anglers with big fish -- note that wifes and companions rarely get photo credits! -- tempt one north.
Unfortunately, you have to wait until October, 1, 2001, but it's worth the wait, Buy the book direct from the publisher, Johnson Gorman Publishers, at www.flyfishingsource.com
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