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Fly-Fishing California's Great Waters

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There is certainly some good information in this book but you have to wade through pages of sophmoric prose to sluice the useful tid bits. The author's favorite words, Me, My, I, and Mine, populate every paragraph and frequently inhabit many sentences in a row.

Eleven chapters (each a magazine reprint) describe a different water and the author's experience fishing it. It would be interesting to understand how the author feels the Central Valley impoundment, Lake Nacimiento is one of California's greatest waters, yet he doesn't even mention such internationally reknowned places like the McCloud River, Hot Creek, and the Sacramento.

The 12th and final chapter describes "the best' flies for fishing these "best" waters. Following in the narcistic bent of the whole book, virtually all these flies are the author's own patterns which you can, of course, purchase at the same shop you picked up his book. In no fewer than six places the reader is given the author's address and phone number just in case the reader needs to hire a fishing guide. The entire effect is nothing short of an ill-disguised infommercial.

With so many excellent guide books that truly detail California's fishing opportunities, I can't recommend this book to anyone.