The New American Trout Fishing

by John Merwin

Book Overview

A comprehensive and insightful guide to the art of fly fishing, The New American Trout Fishing provides a mix of advice and distilled science born of decades of experience and research by one of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028616812
• ISBN13: 9780028616810
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Buy it for the Art

Ernest Lussier was my beloved high school art teacher and I can say with confidence that the illustrations in this book alone make it worth buying. Miss you, Mr Lussier.

An encyclopedia that's fun to read

John's Merwin has provided a work that can easily be treated as a reference book (for merely looking up some quick information) but is also enjoyable enough to read straight through. The whole book is sectioned off well and is documented in such a way that the reader can quickly find any information he/she may need (from tying blood knots to the recipe for a hare's ear nymph). You don't have to read the entire book to get yor money out of it. You can easily use it as a reference work for just looking up needed fishing information. On the other hand, the book is quite enjoyable to read and is not like reading a dictionary. I'm an intermediate fisher who has been actively fly-fishing for arond four years and I learned quite a bit from this book.