The Orvis Streamside Guide to Trout Foods and Their Imitations [Hardcover]

Tom Rosenbauer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2000 | Series: Orvis

A pocket guide to all types of common trout foods and how to imitate them.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Although these four books are loaded with information, their size (61/2 inches high) will cause problems on library shelves, and the conventional paper and binding leaves them vulnerable to water damage (they are designed to fit into a pocket and be taken along on fishing trips). Despite the flaws, the entire series is worth purchasing for libraries that circulate flyfishing books. The best of the guides is The Orvis Streamside Guide to Approach and Presentation, which discusses where to find trout and how to catch them. As with all of the guides, the photos and drawings are well selected and produced, and the book is well written and easy to understand. The Orvis Streamside Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets, which covers an underappreciated area of an overanalyzed sport, is also useful, but The Orvis Streamside Guide to Trout Foods and Their Imitations is rather too general. However, it does contain some of the best insect photography available. Although it is probably easier to learn opera singing than fly casting from a book, The Orvis Streamside Guide to Fly Casting is no better or worse than the majority of other books on the topic. Overall, this set is a good value for fly fishers.DJeff Grossman, Milwaukee Area Tech. Coll.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover

There are pocket guides to specific types of insects and complicated, detailed volumes on all aquatic insects. This book fills a void - a pocket guide to all types of common trout foods and how to imitate them. Within, The Orvis Streamside Guide to Trout Foods and Their Imitations shows: how to tell a stonefly from a caddisfly; when trout are feeding on minnows; what midge larvae look like and how to imitate them; the difference between a mayfly dun and a spinner.The many color photographs and detailed diagrams will help identify what's hatching or living under rocks on the stream bottom. (41/4 X 61/2, 180 pages, color photos, diagrams, charts)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press; 1st edition (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558219862
• ISBN-13: 978-1558219861
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,124,607 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.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Handy little book, April 5, 2003

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William J. McGraw (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Orvis Streamside Guide to Trout Foods and Their Imitations (Hardcover)

This was a good book for anyone curious about aquatic stream insects. Pictures are great for simple identification. Obviously extremely handy for any fly tiers.