Customer Reviews

Trout (The Freshwater Angler)

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Encyclopedias, dictionaries and other miscellaneous tomes on salmonids have been written to attain the precision and photographic beauty of this one book: "Trout." It's easy to read without sacrificing the scientific.

You have seen pictures of trout and other salmonids before, but never with as much beauty and accuracy as in this book. The subsurface photography captures trout in their natural enviornment--with their jaws agape-- milliseconds before gorging on a small baitfish or hitting a Muddler Minnow. Fisherman will definitely find such photographs worth twice the retail price alone.

The information on each species is concise. Bar graphs detail the average length and weight of each species per year of growth. North American maps detail where each species can be found. For each species, table quality, world record, salmonid's diet, preferred water quality (including temp. and clarity), common hybrids, and more are detailed.

The books are hard bound and make for an attractive library or coffee table in addition to their priceless photographs.

If you are new to trout fishing - this book will give you a good starting point. Illustrations are decent as are the descriptions of accessories, lures, bates, general techniques and behavioral patterns. Good value for the money.

Covers a variety of ways used, to catch trout. The book surprized me with some new information I didn't know before.

This book is excellent. It has everything about trout and how to catch them.

I am veary happy with this book. It makes it ez to find fish and no what bates work at what time. I have most of the book in this collection. I use the book as a technical reference to evaluate fishing holes before I fish them. The book has saved me time, and now I know were to fish in almost any conditions and hook a fish.