STEELHEAD COUNTRY. By Steve Raymond. Illustrations by Gordon Allen.

(1991) later reprint. 8vo (154 x 234mm). Ppxv,206. B/w illustrations by Gordon Allen. Black cloth backed fawn boards, spine titled in gilt.

This book "brilliantly captures the great joys and challenges of fly fishing for steelhead trout. It is a warmly personal account of [Steve Raymond's] long pursuit of these great sea-run rainbow trout and what he has learned about fishing for them in the rivers and estuaries of the Pacific Northwest". Chapters include: Natural selection; What's in a name?; On the Deschutes; Objects of affection; big and little rivers; the art of wading; Home river; The steelhead also rises; On the Wenatchee; In the estuaries; Steelhead flies; The compleat steelheader.