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Due North of Montana: A Guide to Flyfishing in Alberta [Paperback]

Chris Dawson (Author)
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September 1996
Are you tired of flyfishing those brand-name U.S. trout streams that promise big fish but produce mostly big crowds? Then a trip to Alberta is the perfect solution, and "Due North of Montana" is the guidebook you’ll need.

A few hours’ drive from some of the most famous trout waters in the lower forty-eight will take you to rivers you’ve probably never heard of before—rivers like the North Raven, where you’ll find big browns rising in a spring creek; or the Elk River, touted as perhaps the best westslope cutthroat stream in North America.

Eleven of Alberta’s best southern and central trout streams are covered in this book, from the metropolitan Bow to the precipitous gorge of the Highwood River. Alberta native Chris Dawson tells you where to fish, when to go, and what flies to use. Maps help you locate the rivers and their access points. With "Due North of Montana" you can make your own discoveries in waters that are as uncrowded as America’s rivers twenty years ago.


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About the Author

Chris Dawson is a senior writer for the Calgary Herald in Alberta, Canada. His ten-month flyfishing adventure to Australia and New Zealand was the subject of his first book, "Woolly Worms and Wombats." Now he stays closer to home to introduce you to Alberta’s rivers and the people who fish them.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Spring Creek Press (September 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1555661807
  • ISBN-13: 978-1555661809
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #442,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good information on streams; odd relationships with people, February 26, 1999
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This review is from: Due North of Montana: A Guide to Flyfishing in Alberta (Paperback)
The first reviewer got it right on the excellent information at hand in this book. Chris Dawson gives you practically everything you need to know about Alberta's major rivers, including how precisely to get there, which flies work best, and where to find a good guide. I live abroad and rarely get home to Alberta, but I occasionally open this book to remind myself of some of the glorious streams I've fished and of some of the fine rivers I've yet to wade through. Though Dawson possesses a good narrative gift, I wonder sometimes at his occasional criticism of other fishermen. At one point in the book, Dawson questions the sanity of a guy who likes to photograph his favourite trout streams from an airplane. Maybe it is an odd avocation, but when you come to think of it, so is fly fishing itself: many of us spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on equipment, strain our eyes all winter long attaching fur and feathers to hooks, and manage to enter the water only a handful of times a season -- just to feel the primal tug on the line; when we're actually successful at landing our little fish, many of us forget the hunter/gatherer instinct and let the creature swim away! It is all rather peculiar stuff, and I have yet to adequately rationalize it to myself. In comparison to most fly-fishermen, myself included, Dawson's "Map Man" doesn't seem all that odd to me. The sections that rankle add up to no more than a few pages of the entire book. Unfortunately for Chris Dawson, I see that this book's amazon sales don't compare with Grisham's or Oprah's picks, but that's good news for me; I'll be fishing in Canada this summer, and I hope more people will be at home reading potboilers than driving the backroads of Alberta, Dawson's book on the passenger seat, looking for all the great places to hook a trout.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best source of info. on fly-fishing in So. Alberta, March 15, 1999
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This review is from: Due North of Montana: A Guide to Flyfishing in Alberta (Paperback)
Simply the best source of information on fly-fishing in Southern Alberta. This book takes the reader to each stream to learn it's charms and secrets.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Does not cover enough of the smaller rivers and creeks., February 2, 1999
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Does not cover enough of the smaller creeks and rivers in the area. Also, covers a river in BC. Needs more detail info. I spent two weeks up there recently and had fair success on many streams not covered in the book.
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