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Included are specific locations, access points and trailheads, distances, and terrain descriptions. The handy icons located at the beginning of each of the more than two hundred waters discussed provide helpful, at-a-glance information about fish type, ease of access, and wildlife to watch for. 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Steve Bird softly talks about the many dynamics at work, from insect hatches on small streams and giant tailwaters to how a fly should be tied and then presented on the water.  Those understandings promote such great affection for “home” waters that the fly fisher in turn becomes the fierce riverkeeper. 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Once again, Gierach tells the world why the pastime of fly-fishing makes so much sense—except when it doesn’t. In sparkling prose, with more than a touch of humor, he recalls the joys of landing that trout he’s been watching for the last hour—and then losing an even fatter one a little later. Joy and frustration mix in Gierach’s latest appreciation of the fly-fishing life as he takes us from his home waters on the Front Range of the Rockies in Colorado to fishing meccas all over North America. From fishing lodges in Alaska to memories of the local creek in the Midwest where he grew up, Gierach reminds us about the indispensability of the natural world around us. 5.5x8.4 inches, 224 pgs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Gierach is the author of more than twenty books about fly-fishing. His writing has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eField \u0026amp; Stream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGray’s Sporting Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFly Rod \u0026amp; Reel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He writes a column for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine and the monthly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRedstone Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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