Customer Reviews

The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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An amazing reference book filled with close to 200 pages of text, maps, charts and photos. Designed for the intermediate to more advanced angler (although many fundamentals are covered as well). Dozens of waterways throughout the area are featured. Truly a must have reference book for any fly-fishing enthusiast looking to fish the Smoky Mountain area.

This book is a five star book if you get a proper copy. It covers in great detail the creeks and rivers of the Smokies, including the type of fish to expect and effective flies to use with which to catch them. However, when I opened the copy I received, which I purchased new, I found page 70 right inside of the cover. It traveled along normally from that page for a while until it jumped back to page 17. After so many pages, it jumped forward again to somewhere in the 100s. There was no table of contents, to make matters worse. Needless to say, it is very, very difficult to use the book in the manner in which it was designed because of the error in the print-run.

This probably is not a problem of the author's doing, and I hate to deduct stars from that person's work, but it is frustrating to read a book that jumps all over the place, especially when the table of contents and the first 16 pages have been entirely omitted in the printing.

If this book had arrived in proper form, I would have given it five stars.