Colorado Guide Flies
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2015
240 pages
978-1-4617-5077-2 (ISBN)
Description
What if you could peer into the fly boxes of the guides who make their living helping people catch fish, day in and day out? With this comprehensive guide to the best patterns for Colorado rivers and reservoirs, now you can. Not only are these patterns effective for Colorado, but anglers from around the world will discover new flies for their home waters.
- 600 patterns from the state's top guides and fly tiers
- Complete hatch information for the state
- Interviews with 20 of the state's top guides
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Pat Dorsey has been a fly-fishing guide for twenty years and is Southwest Field Editor for Fly Fisherman. Author of Colorado Guide Flies (978-1-934753-33-0), Fly Fishing Tailwaters (978-0-8117-0512-7), and Tying and Fishing Tailwater Flies (978-0-8117-0722-0), Pat travels the country speaking to local, Trout Unlimited, and Federation of Fly Fishers clubs and conducts seminars at trade shows throughout the country. He lives in Parker, Colorado.
Content
- Colorado Guide Flies
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Seasonal Strategies
- Chapter 2: Midges and Their Imitations
- Chapter 3: Mayflies and Their Imitations
- Chapter 4: Stoneflies and Their Imitations
- Chapter 5: Caddisflies and Their Imitations
- Chapter 6: Other Important Trout Foods and Their Imitations: Aquatic Worms, Scuds, Mysis Shrimp, and Eggs
- Chapter 7: Terrestrials and Their Imitations
- Chapter 8: Attractors
- Chapter 9: Presentation: Mastering Nymph, Dry-Fly, and Streamer Tactics
- Chapter 10: Colorado Stillwater Summary (Richard Pilatzke)
- Contributors
- References
- Index
