The Orvis Guide to Prospecting For Trout [Paperback]

Tom Rosenbauer (Author)

Book Description

Series: Orvis | Publication Date: December 1, 2000

In this comprehensive and readable guide, Tom Rosenbauer shares his vast knowledge of fly fishing for trout when there is no hatch.

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From the Back Cover

In this comprehensive and readable guide, Tom Rosenbauer shares his vast knowledge of fly fishing when there is no hatch. Written for both the novice and the seasoned angler, Prospecting for Trout picks up where Rosenbauer's Orvis Guide to Reading Trout Streams left off, exploring how trout live and feed, and how to make them strike. There is expert advice on how to fish with dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, and streamers - supported by many detailed illustrations and photographs. This is the guide no trout fisherman should be without. (81/2 X 103/4, 288 pages, b&w photos, diagrams)

About the Author

Tom Rosenbauer is the author of The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide and numerous other Orvis guidebooks. When not out fishing the Battenkill, he works in Manchester, Vermont, as vice president of marketing at Orvis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press; 1st edition (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585742031
• ISBN-13: 978-1585742035
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,737,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for nearly four decades, and was tying flies commercially at age fourteen. He is the author of numerous books, as well as countless articles for American Angler, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other periodicals. He is a vice president at the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont, and lives in nearby Arlington.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tips on finding Trout, October 25, 2001

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"robtf" (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Orvis Guide to Prospecting For Trout (Paperback)

There is no other activity that I know of that can lead to more serenity and more frustration, simultaneously, than trout fishing. You have to first find the fish, who show up in the most innocuous places. You then have to figure out what they're eating. And always, it's a *little* bit comforting to know that you are not alone in this trial. Misery sometimes does love company. But misery also loves some real good advice, as well!
In that, Tom Rosenbauer does a superior job of teaching how to go to a piece of water, and start the monumental task of prospecting ( like a miner ) that water for the stealthy trout that (probably) inhabit therein. Two things begin to happen when reading the book. First, you begin to understand why you haven't found fish before. Second, you begin to understand that part of the enjoyment of trout fishing, is *in* the looking itself, whether or not you actually succeed in finding a fish that particular day.

In the opinion of one who has just really begun this journey into fishing for trout, this book is excellent!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Earning Your Fin..., April 22, 2001

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"Doc" Bronfeld (Neptune, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Orvis Guide to Prospecting For Trout (Paperback)

Ever since my dad placed a magazine under my right arm in an attempt to instruct me in the proper way to cast a fly with his favorite bamboo rod, I have littered the environment with a rainbow of colored flies. I've spent a good part of my life since then reading, studying, arguing, not to mention fishing, in an attempt to learn the "correct" way to become a truly proficient fisherman I've caught and released many a fish, and yet not until an old Alaskan Sourdough pointed out to me that, "Until you think like one, you're just another outsider to the brotherhood of fish", did I gain my first mental fin. This book confirms a conclusion that I reached many years ago, and does it in a comfortable and conversational manner. Although I may arrive bleary-eyed at the new fishing spot carrying a vestfull of "essential" materials, I've yet to come upon even one fish carrying so much as a hatch-chart. Not only that, they've been around doing their "fish" thing for eons. So here it is, the essental steps to understanding our worthy piscatorial buddies in their environment, on their own terms...and gaining yet another mental fin.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to find trout when there is no hatch, June 1, 2006

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Reader from the North (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Orvis Guide to Prospecting For Trout (Paperback)

This is another excellent resource from Tom Rosenbauer. What do you do when there is no hatch? He covers a little bit of everything--streamers, dries, wet flies, and nymphs. It's a nice follow-up volume to his Guide to Fly Fishing and his Reading the Stream book. As with his other books, he writes clearly and practically. You should read it, then later re-read it to remind yourself what you should have done when you didn't catch anything. Tight lines!