PROSPECTING FOR TROUT (An Orvis Guide) [Paperback]

Tom Rosenbauer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1993 | Series: An Orvis Guide

Easy to understand and accessible, this comprehensive instructional book is certain to improve any fly-fisherman's technique, as the author of The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide and Reading Trout Streams sheds new light on fly fishing for trout through observation of their feeding behavior. Photographs and line drawings.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This aptly titled book offers as much clear and helpful instruction as any adult fishing guide published within the last few years. The author, a veteran fishing writer, targets the beginning and intermediate fly fisher. General equipment and casting are not separately covered, but technique, strategy, and tactics are expressed in understandable human terms certain to improve the sport for everyone less experienced, skillful, or observant than the author (and that includes the vast majority of anglers). This is a sound, amply illustrated addition to the literature, appropriate for all but the smallest libraries with a fly fishing clientele.
- David Panciera, Westerly P.L., R.I.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Delta; 4th Printing edition (March 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385308167
• ISBN-13: 978-0385308168
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #492,945 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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book with tons of information for beginers, August 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: PROSPECTING FOR TROUT (An Orvis Guide) (Paperback)

This is a great book for the novice fly fisherman. It gives you tons of helpful hints on where to find trout and there feeding habits. It also gives you a birdseye view of what a trout will do throughout the entire day. This book also tells why the cast, presentation and choice of fly are so crucial when fishing an unknown stream. Also it shows you how to fish a stream once you have located feeding trout. All in all this is a great book for novice anglers and still offers some great advice for the expert fly fisherman

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Art and science of fly fishing, December 8, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: PROSPECTING FOR TROUT (An Orvis Guide) (Paperback)

I think this book shows you the art and science of fly fishing. this one was best among the books I read for flyfishing. It changed what I see at the stream. After this book, the streams were not the same as I had seen before..

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, December 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: PROSPECTING FOR TROUT (An Orvis Guide) (Paperback)

I have to agree that this is a great book. I bought it in my second season of trout fishing and I have used many of the outlined strategies to catch trout since that time. I highly recommend it.