Glacier to Yellowstone Fly Fishing Blog

If I had a nickel for every how-to-fly fishing book that has been published during the last 20 years, I'd be fishing around the world in some pretty exotic places. My article " Mastering the Basics of Fly Fishing" was begun years ago when I was preparing an outline for an introductory course for...

An illustrated cartoon manual on "stillwater tactics for the intermediate fly angler," this is a delightful book. It is a great primer! I learned a great deal from this book and was delighted with the humor and comical illustrations.

If you are inexperienced in float fishing Western rivers, I highly recommend this book. Anyone can oar a raft or drift boat down the river and think that they are skilled after a few outings, and yet every season river mishaps occur all over the state. If you want to be a responsible oarsman, and...

If you have mastered the basics of fly-fishing but concentrate your efforts on the surface or bouncing a nymph along the bottom, then this book is the gateway instructional book to help you fish the entire column of water. I love this book! And it comes with a DVD. Now, if I just had a second one to...

Although I placed Rickards' book above this book, I highly recommend Morris and Chan's book on par with Rickards' book. In fact, if you are really serious about learning stillwater tactics, you need both books.

This is a beautiful and highly valuable book for any angler who really wants to sample the best fishing in Montana. I am so delighted that I purchased this book, especially now that I plan on going back and re-discovering the waters that I fished years ago while doing research for my book and...

I believe that this is one of the best of the Montana fishing guide books. The organization of the book is superb; the maps are excellent; the hatch charts and tips are reliable. In short, it is thorough, comprehensive and makes for good reading! If you can only afford one guide book for Montana...

I am not entirely sure how to recommend this book. I found it to be very informative and a good read. The problem is that it is narrowly focused on fishing "pay-to-play" spring creeks in the Livingston area of Montana. Nonetheless, I found a great deal of information on nymph fishing that I can...

I am shocked! Once again I went to Amazon to look up the information for Rickards' book. As a resident of Montana, I never found the time to hone my skills for stillwater fly-fishing. When I arrived in Oregon in the Klamath Falls area, I asked a number of guides what book they recommended for...

So, you have made a commitment to stillwater fishing and you need a resource for fly patterns, this is the book. In addition to the fly-tying instructions and beautiful photographs, this book is packed with information on the food base in lakes and how and why to develop effective patterns. Rowley...