Tactics for Trout

Three well-known fly fishers (and friends) come together to share the solid technical know-how they've learned from years of fishing the ever-elusive trout.

Chapters cover fishing with nymphs, dry and wet flies, emergers, streamers, and more

Enhanced with more than 200 full-color photos and QR codes that link to video segments

Authors recount their personal experiences with fussy trout, tactics and presentation, choosing fly rods, and organizing their fly boxes

Rick Hafele (www.rickhafele.com) has been studying aquatic insects and freshwater biology professionally for over thirty years. As a writer, he penned the Entomology column for American Angler magazine for thirty years, and has several major books to his credit including Complete Book of Western Hatches, An Angler’s Guide to Aquatic Insects and Their Imitations, Western Mayfly Hatches, and Nymph-Fishing Rivers and Streams. He is also the host of numerous instructional fly-fishing DVDs, among them Anatomy of a Trout Stream and Advanced Tactics for Emergers & Dries. He lives in Wilsonville, Oregon. Dave Hughes is a highly respected fly-fishing writer with more than two dozen books in print, including Trout from Small Streams: 2nd Edition, Handbook of Hatches: 2nd Edition, and Trout Flies. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Skip Morris (www.skip-morris-fly-tying.com) is the author of seventeen fly-fishing books--including Seasons for Trout, Tactics for Trout, and Trout Flies for Rivers--and hundreds of magazine articles. He fishes and writes from his home in Washington State.