FLY FISHING CANADA: FROM COAST TO COAST TO COAST. Robert H. Jones, editor.

2001 1st edition. 8vo (162 x 236mm). Pp528. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Contributions from 33 of Canada's best known angling writers and photographers with a combined fishing experience of more than 1200 years. A superb guide to flyfishing for all of the major species to be found across the country. If you are planning a fishing trip to Canada this is the book to get. The outdoor writers of Canada by Robert H. Jones; Fly fishing Canada by W. Jack Simpson; If I were a rich man by Robert H. Jones; Fly fishing Canada: Photo journey; Springtime is trout time by Fred Wooding; Atlantic salmon by Paul Marriner; A closer look at Quebec's Atlantic salmon by Paul Marriner; American shad by Paul Marriner; Down-home smallmouths by Paul Marriner; Entomology and other life-forms by Dr. Martin Lamont; Brook trout by Ken Robins; Prince Edward Island's brook trout by Paul Marriner; Fly-ins by Dr. Martin Lamont; Lake trout by Dr. Martin Lamont; The black char by Bob Rife; Ungava's Arctic char by Kenneth Coupland; Dredging for walleye by Russ Swerdlyk; Ouananiche! by George Gruenfeld; The Harrington Fish and Game Association by Dave Smallwood; Mouse on water by George Gruenfeld; Whitefish by Dr. Martin Lamont; Sailfin of the tree line by Bob Rife; Panfish and the fly by Steve Galea; Ontario steelhead by Andrew Somerset; An angler most blasphemous by Kevin Fancy; Lead-core British Columbia style by Robert H. Jones; Brown trout by Chris Marshall; Gorillas and hawgs! by Bob Rife; Exotic alternatives by Chris Marshall; Lake whitefish on dry flies by Gord Ellis; Algonquin's treasures by Kenneth Coupland; Great lakes, great smallmouths by Marty Roberts; Muskie magic by Burton J. Myers; Flatlands jackpot by George Will; Still waters, float tubes and big trout by Wayne Phillips; Saskatchewan's northern bounty by Dave Smallwood; Beauty's but skin deep by Dave Smallwood; Prospecting for prairie pothole pike by Clive Schaupmeyer; Pike on "dry flies" by Clive Schaupmeyer; Alberta's trout preserve by Bob Scammell; Prairie tarpon by Bob Scammell; Westslope cutthroats and bull trout by Jim Crawford; Stillwater techniques for rainbows and brook trout by Brian Chan; Wind blowing? Start trolling! by Robert H. Jones; Kokanee! by Brian Chan; Jack Shaw: The father of chironomid fishing by Robert H. Jones; Vancouver's urban trout fishing... and beyond by George Will; The Fraser Valley's lonesome crappie by George Will; Winter and summer steelhead in British Columbia by Barry Thornton; Matching the worm-hatch by Robert H. Jones; Open-ocean salmon by Barry Thornton; Lornie's firecracker by Robert H. Jones; Saltwater bucktailing for salmon by Robert H. Jones; Coastal cutthroat trout by Bill Luscombe; Three for the beach by Robert H. Jones; A passion for pinks by Bill Luscombe; Pinks and sockeye above tidewater by Robert H. Jones; Tempting tackle-busting chums by Dr. Martin Lamont; Smallmouths on an island in the pacific by Robert H. Jones; The bottom fish bonanza of British Columbia by Robert H. Jones; If keeping fish to eat, do it properly! by Vera Jones; Selected fly patterns; Beg, borrow, scrounge and recycle by Jack Davis; Canada's cross-country fly-tying material by Ralph Shaw; Bunny strips by Ralph Shaw.