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Trout and Salmon: The Greatest Fly Fishing for Trout and Salmon Worldwide

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Partial redux of previous book...an obvious attempt to capitalize of fly-fishing mania, as we have seen in the Northwest. Pictures are fair.

Absolutely gorgeous photography mixed with great fishing stories. Which is what fishing is all about- what you see, or say you saw while you were there. An excellent coffee table book that you want to keep picking up time and time again to see the great images.

Obviously this is a very quick follow on from 'Distant Waters', and you cant help feeling they are cashing in somewhat on the current penchant for flyfishing in exotic places. The photographs are excellent, but much of the text is disappointing. Much of it is just reprinted extracts from old books, even by authors now dead, and the photos and text do not always match up. In short I would say if you want to dream of exotic (and mainly exclusive and expensive) fishing destinations, then this gives great photos, but if you want to read interesting new text to accompany it, you'll be disappointed. Finding old chapters (however well written they were) that I have already got (from David Street,JW Hills, Zane Grey, David Street, Nick Lyons etc) was - I thought - a bit of a con.

Atkinson's latest book joins "Distant Waters" as a must have for the angler that travels to the remote corners of the world to fish, or dreams of doing so.

In this series of journeys, world-class authors' tales accompany Valentine's sublime photographs. So few of us get to travel to these locations, at least in person. Knowing that Zane Grey or Ernie Schwiebert traveled the same footpaths to the same pools and shared the same elation creates a bond only furthered by the fact that you may have just caught and released the same fish, or its offspring several generations removed.

If this book has a failing, it is that one won't want to travel with it. It would also be a great offering in a fieldguide-size format, though that of course, would not do the photographs justice. But, for streamside reading while waiting for that afternoon hatch to start, or resting a great salmon that has followed, but not yet taken your last full dress salmon fly on an exclusive river beat, it would be a welcome friend.

If fishing has a greatest reward, it is in the hunt, and Atkinson has here shared a collection of locales and adventures that will have you ready to go. Then, his details on logistics, including the right flies and rod to use and the right time of year to go, will bring the trip together. Even if you never leave your favorite armchair.