Color Guide to Steelhead Drift Fishing [Paperback]

Bill Herzog (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1994

Each year nearly 1,000,000 steelhead are hooked in North America and the great majority of these fish are hooked using drift fishing techniques. This lavishly illustrated, all-color guide is the "bible" if you want to get in on the action. Written by one of America's greatest drift fishermen, you will learn the techniques that can guarantee your entry into the 10% of the anglers who hook 90% of the steelhead. This is a heavy-duty graduate course!

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Bill Herzog has been fishing for steelhead in the Puget Sound region since he was twelve years old. Drift fishing has become a favorite method of Bill's over the years, and he managed to miss a few days here and there from school in Tacoma while practicing this technique. He has fished Olympic Peninsula, Puget Sound and British Columbia streams for three decades and Oregon streams as well. Bill spends approximately 150 days a year on steelhead rivers with a camera and drift/spoon fishing outfit. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Frank Amato Publications (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878175599
• ISBN-13: 978-1878175595
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,209,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great addition to my fishing arsenal!, January 16, 2001

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Rudy Franco Jr. (Folsom, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Guide to Steelhead Drift Fishing (Paperback)

This book was excellent. It eliminated any questions I had about drift fishing. The author makes his subject come across clear and easily. The book features MANY color photograph's that simplify things to a very basic level... In short, the author makes it so that there is NO WAY you cannot understand what he is trying to say. In my oppinion, this is a GREAT book for the beginner to intermediate drift fisherman. It covers everything from basic monofilament knots to reading water for the best drifts... he also includes a great section on the various drift bobber styles and the pros/cons on each, AND which bobber is best for what condition. Overall, a GREAT How To book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very highly recommended guide and resource, June 12, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Guide to Steelhead Drift Fishing (Paperback)

Jammed from cover to cover with extensive instructions, tips, and color photographs on every page, Color Guide To Steelhead Drift Fishing is a truly "user friendly" resource on everything from acquiring bait; to casting the line; to preparing a caught fish for cooking. Accessibly written by expert fisherman Bill Herzog (who spends approximately 150 days a year on the river), Color Guide To Steelhead Drift Fishing is a very highly recommended guide and resource for dedicated steelhead drift anglers of all skill and experience levels.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bill's the best!, February 3, 2003

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"avidangler" (Seaside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Guide to Steelhead Drift Fishing (Paperback)

I would recommend this book for the beginner as well as the advanced steelhead fisherman. Bill has a way of connecting with the reader in a way that is easy to understand,yet he does not "come off" as some other fishing writers do where I have felt better off not buying their book,due to the fact that they obviously are writing it for stupid people. I just like Herzog's writing.

As far as information-wise the chapter on reading water alone is worth it's salt to any neophyte steelheader,and the photography is excellent as well. It is obvious in reading Bill Herzog's Color Guide To Steelhead Drift Fishing that the man speaks from experience and is relating what he has found to work by trial and error.He knows his steelhead fishing!

If you buy this book (which you should) I would also recommend Spoon Fishing For Steelhead by same said author.They don't call him "General Zog" for nothing!