Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword Kirk Deeter ix
Introduction xi
Part 1 Profiles of Trout, Char, and Salmon 1
Chapter 1 Trout Profiles 3
Chapter 2 Rainbow Trout 9
Chapter 3 Brown Trout 13
Chapter 4 Brook Trout 19
Chapter 5 Cutthroat Trout 25
Chapter 6 Golden Trout 29
Chapter 7 Apache Trout 33
Chapter 8 Arctic Char 37
Chapter 9 Dolly Varden 41
Chapter 10 Lake Trout 45
Chapter 11 Bull Trout 49
Chapter 12 Hybrids 53
Chapter 13 Arctic Grayling 57
Chapter 14 Mountain Whitefish 61
Chapter 15 Steelhead 65
Chapter 16 Atlantic Salmon 71
Chapter 17 Landlocked Salmon 75
Chapter 18 The Pacific Salmon 79
Chapter 19 King, or Chinook, Salmon 81
Chapter 20 Coho Salmon 85
Chapter 21 Sockeye Salmon 89
Chapter 22 Chum Salmon 93
Chapter 23 Pink Salmon 97
Part 2 The Flies That Catch Them 99
Chapter 24 Trout Flies 101
Chapter 25 The Traditional Wet Fly 105
Chapter 26 The Traditional Dry Fly 111
Chapter 27 North Country Spiders-Classic Soft Hackles 115
Chapter 28 The Classic Trout Fisher's Nymph 121
Chapter 29 Classic Feathered Trout Streamers 125
Chapter 30 Classic Terrestrial Flies 129
Chapter 31 Classic Midges 133
Chapter 32 Classic Bucktail Streamers 137
Chapter 33 Classic No-Hackles 141
Chapter 34 The Incredible Muddler Minnow 147
Chapter 35 The Upright Hair-Wing Dry Fly 151
Chapter 36 Small Crustacean Flies 155
Chapter 37 The Flat Hair-Wings 161
In Closing 165
