Book Description
"Flyfishing Alaska" is the standard handbook for flyfishers headed north. Tony Route's long experience as a year-round resident of Alaska shows in his descriptions of all the game fish available to the Alaskan angler and his insightful lessons on how to catch them.
Customer Reviews:
A great guide to flyfishing the species of Alaska.......2005-01-06
Admittedly, I am mostly a spin fisherman by nature, but reading this book had me practice casting in the backyard in 10 degree weather. The book is very readable and filled with anecdotes and information that obviously resulted from years of field experience.
This is not a location guide, it is a species guide. The author does give general information about where to find a certain species but does not give up any secret holes or mention any locations that might be sensitive to overfishing. What he does give in abundance is his knowledge of each fish species; it's life cycle, the proper flies and equipment to use and most importantly, the presentation for each species. Throughout the book, he gives a sense of mastery gained from countless hours in the field. The chapter on flyfishing for Sockeyes alone is worth the price of the book. He debunks the myth that Sockeyes don't bite flies and lets you know how to present the fly to elicit a strike. I have never wanted to fish the Russian River like I did after reading that chapter.
I'd recommend it to anyone going up from the lower 48. Even if you are an experienced flyfisherman, this will help jump start your success with new species.
Flyfishing Alaska.......2000-02-13
This is an excellent how to book for the fly fisherman going to Alaska. Each species of salmon and trout is covered with details concerning best time of year to fish, best fly patterns and what tactics will produce strikes. This is a how to fish rather than where to fish book although it does mention many areas worth investigating. I would suggest buying both this book and the book, Alaska Fishing, by Limeres and Pedersen, which gives detailed info. on where to fish rather than how to fish. Both excellent books that when used together will prepare the angler for the trip of a lifetime. Tight Lines.
Book Description
Alaska is the world's leading coldwater fly-fishing destination. In Alaska Rainbow's, Larry Tullis shares what you need to know to enjoy a successful trip to Alaska, whether you are fishing with a guide or want to try a do-it-yourself trip. Tullis includes: Alaska trout habits and food; techniques and tackle; fly patterns; other Alaska species; Russian rainbows; Alaskan wildlife; Planning an Alaskan trip; conservation; and more. Quit procrastinating, start planning your Alaskan adventure, Alaska Rainbow's will help make it a success.
Customer Reviews:
Alaskan rainbow trout, salmon, and other game fish species.......2002-08-11
Alaska Rainbows: Fly-fishing For Trout, Salmon, & Other Alaskan Species by experienced guide and angler Larry Tullis offers a wealth of "user friendly" information about Alaskan rainbow trout, salmon, and other game fish species common to the Alaskan wilderness. Ranging from their habits and foods to optimal fly patterns and fishing tips, tricks, as well as proven techniques designed specifically to capture them for delicious feasting, the information presented is accurate, authoritative, comprehensive, and practical. Eighteen fly plates and a fly-pattern chart round out this superbly presented, tell-all guide for fly fishers interested in making the most their expeditions to Alaskan waters.
A gorgeous guide filled with splendid full-color photographs.......2002-03-24
Alaska Rainbows: Fly-Fishing for Trout, Salmon, & Other Alaskan Species by fishing professional Larry Tullis is a gorgeous guide filled with splendid full-color photographs and packed with detailed information on how to catch the best fish and enjoy oneself while doing it in the rugged Alaskan wilderness. Chapters cover trout habitats, fly patterns, Alaskan wildlife, planning a trip to Alaska and much more. Alaska Rainbows is very highly recommended for anyone contemplating a fishing trip to Alaska!
Customer Reviews:
Best Alaska fishing book I've seen.......2005-08-20
This book is packed with all sorts of detailed, useful information for much of Alaska's destinations. Though it probably doesn't cover everything perfectly (Alaska is a big place) I have compared what the author says to some of my personal experiences, and he is quite accurate.
This book goes beyond, the usual "I'll give you the run timings and list guides for you" approach -- it has some real info in it that is good. Though flyfishing is in the title, Haugen recognizes the limitations of that for some of the destinations (e.g., King salmon in most places) and mentions gear techniques also.
Worthwhile, but needs more work in some areas.......2005-06-07
Writing a guide to fly-fishing in the huge state of Alaska must be extremely difficult - tantamount to writing a book like "A Fly-Fisherman's Guide to Everything West of the Mississippi." At the outset, the author would have to make some important decisions on which of the literally thousands of the state's waters should be included in the book, and which waters should be left out.
A logical way to start would be to divide the state into geographical regions, which is what "A Flyfisher's Guide to Alaska" does, then decide what to highlight in each region. In this book, the authors have done a commendable job surveying a large number of diverse of waters; however, in choosing which waters to exclude, they have left out some important fishing destinations, while at the same time including some inconsequential locations.
But before criticizing it too much, I should point out that certain portions of the book are very well done. The regional sections on Bristol Bay, the Kenai Peninsula, and especially Kodiak Island are excellent, providing a high level of detail, with good maps and helpful sidebars containing notes on fishing gear and techniques, options for do-it-yourself fishing, and how to deal with ever-present grizzly bears. Throughout the book, there are lists of contact addresses that the reader will find useful: names and telephone numbers of hotels, fishing guides, air and boat charter businesses, and government offices for each regional selection. The run-timing charts for fish are accurate and helpful, and prospective visitors should pay particular attention to them. In Alaska, where much of the fishing is dependant on anadramous fish, proper timing is everything.
But the book falls seriously short for its lack of coverage of some areas. For example, anyone wanting to use the book to gather information on pike fishing in Alaska would be disappointed to learn that perhaps the state's single best location for huge pike has been ignored. The Innoko River, a tributary to the Yukon, is where the current state record pike was taken, and is recognized by pike aficionados as quite literally one of the world's top destinations for these ferocious fish. Granted, this is a remote river, but no more so than many of the other places that are included in the book. I was very surprised to see no mention of it at all.
Perhaps the most serious omission is the waters of Prince William Sound and the streams located along the Gulf of Alaska from the town of Cordova to Yakutat. This latter region boasts some of Alaska's best coho salmon rivers, which, due to their size, clarity, and huge runs of salmon, are very popular with fly-fishermen. Prince William Sound itself is a large area of countless islands, bays, and estuaries. While the Sound is not a leading fly-fishing destination, it nevertheless contains some important waters, especially for anglers concentrating on pink or coho salmon. Because of its relatively easy access through the ports of Seward, Whittier, Cordova, or Valdez, (note the key word relatively - few waters in Alaska are easy to access), the book would have been much improved by mentioning at least an overview of the Sound and the Gulf Coast.
The coverage for Southeast Alaska has comparable problems. Similar to Prince William Sound, Southeast Alaska is a region of steep-sided islands and fjords and dominated by small streams - few of which could be considered destinations unto themselves, such as the major rivers on the Kenai Peninsula or Bristol Bay - yet these numerous waters still provide a very high-quality angling experience. In this section, the author chooses to emphasize the fishing adjacent to the road systems of the region's small towns, presumably because that's where he assumes most anglers are likely to concentrate their efforts. In doing so, however, some of the territory's best angling is overlooked: many of the lakes, streams, and estuaries located only a short boat or float plane ride from the various towns provide much superior angling than those found on the road systems. For example, the section on Sitka has several paragraphs discussing road-system lakes that provide uninspiring angling for stunted resident trout. Yet within easy striking distance of Sitka are lakes and streams that are enormously productive, with multiple species of fish, and certainly worth the trouble and expense to visit. The book should have emphasized coverage of these places instead.
An example of how the author could have improved the Southeast section is his handling of the area near the town of Wrangell. Here, he provides the reader with information on some of the easily accessible roadside fishing near town, yet he also provides detail on more remote areas that are not only close-by but have outstanding fishing and wilderness characteristics.
All-in-all, the book is an admirable effort and is generally a useful reference - particularly for some regions of the state. But I look forward to its second edition - one that is backed up by even more research, and one that re-examines the choices on listed fishing spots.
Easily the second best Alaskan Fishing book out there........2005-02-08
I don't think this book is the best Alaskan fishing book out there, but it is a close second. Renee Limeres' Alaska Fishing is the best book out there right now. Both these books stand heads and shoulders above the others out there. This book doesn't cover as many locations as Limeres, nor is it as solid across all sections (like fish natural history etc.) but it is well worth the money.
Don't be afraid of the title if you are not a fly-fisherman. The author often mentions situations where you should put the fly rod down and fish spin casting and all the information is just as useful for fly and spin fishermen.
Too bad the publishers didn't put a photo of this book here. I think it would sell better with a visual. I was definitely pleased when my copy came. A quick flip through the well-designed pages made me realize this book is better than nearly everything that's out there right now. Be warned though, the book has the dimensions of a phone book. Maybe more like a Milepost. It is not pocket or pack friendly. You might want to use it to plan your trip first, then photocopy the maps and sections that you'll want on your trip.
This is definitely a good book for those planning their first self guided trip. It has good coverage of the most popular area and covers the road system well. For the Anchorage bound fishermen, it has the best Anchorage area fishing coverage I've seen.
imperfect, but well-above-average, a "strong buy".......2005-01-15
This book is a well-above-average addition to what has become tightly held information: where and how to fish in Alaska. Most of the book concerns the oft-fished road-accessible areas; but it does include more detailed discussions of several of the more popular float-fishing rivers, a nice chapter on Kodiak Island, and shorter but interesting chapters on the aleutians - none of which are available in other recent books. The coverage of southeast alaska was really too terse to be of much value; what was there was again road-fishing which is perhaps of use to first time travelers or for cruiseship travelers passing thru - but too busy for seasoned fly fishermen who live in or frequent Alaska. Some chapters were unbalanced - the Yakutat area gives far more than is necessary about the Situk river (which flows thru town), and not enough about others (almost to the point of inaccuracy of facts - e.g., the Italio cabin is about 1/4 mile or less from the river, not 3/4 of a mile). The most glaring omission was the lack of any discussion of the entire gulf coast between Yakutat and Valdez, including Cordova,Prince William Sound, and points inbetween - its hard to believe anyone writing a book that includes silver salmon fishing without ever once mentioning this area. Other annoyances were an index that was woefully incomplete and poorly edited, the overabundance of bear warning stories (an ounce of prevention is fine, but this is several pounds - in a book that's supposed to be about fishing), and far too many pages spent on local community information, fishing regulations, and/or pictures that are of very limited use and available elsewhere. The value per unit book thickness is not high.
What I found most satisfying was the willingness of the author to occasionally talk about an offbeat hotspot, such as irish creek. Or advising a non-intuitive technique that actually works - like dead-drifting lemming patterns (novices just can't resist working this like a bass-popper and Haugen's right - its not fished this way).
The book has a number geographical and factual errors on some locations - which I won't go into - but these are easily distinguished by their overall lack of detail (usually, if there's 3 or less sentences, it's cause to doubt). But the detailed chapters are quite good and accurate. For those who haven't ever been to alaska, there's actually enough to plan a trip. For those who have spent alot of time there, there is still some revelation. The rest I'll keep to myself.
A long time has passed since 1997, when Limeres and Pederson published the 2nd edition of Alaska Fishing, the most comprehensive treatise then available. Few attempts have been made to improve on it; this book may not replace or exceed it - but it does provide more detail on several areas and is by far the best book since - accordingly, I rate it a "strong buy".
Book Description
Alaska is a large and wild place, filled with incredible natural resources and some of the richest fisheries in the world. Though it is potentially a fly fisher's paradise, the diversity of its waters makes it difficult to know how to best fish each area. Tapping into local knowledge is the key to ensuring the exceptional quality of fishing that Alaska has to offer. This book reveals the most effective methods practiced by some of Alaska's greatest guides, including Nancy Morris Lyon, Chad Valentine, Dan Busch, and Luke Woodruff. These skilled anglers generously share their expertise and the techniques they've developed for every variety of fly fishing. As you gain insights into their approaches, you will learn how to choose the type of fishing and the trip that most appeals to you. Whether you're casting dry flies to grayling, swinging big leeches for steelhead, or stripping heavy baitfish patterns in the open ocean for salmon, you are guaranteed to enjoy the fly-fishing trip of a lifetime. Discover the richest fishing areas in Alaska: Bristol Bay, the Susitna Valley, Kodiak Island, Resurrection Bay, Southeast, and the Lost Coast. Included are fly patterns and recipes for trout, king salmon, cohos, sockeyes, and steelhead.
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This River Journal is one book in a continueing series highlighting the premier North American fly fishing rivers. For continuity, each issue is authored by one experiences writer/angler. Professional color photographs show the river in all its seasonal moods. Helpful area maps provide access information for anglers including river drifting, campgrounds, boat launching, shuttling, etc. There is much practical, insider fly-fishing help including timing of different insect hatches, matching flies to use, lodging, guide and fly shop services, additional bibliography, map sources, phone numbers, and addresses.
Each book in this series provides curious anglers with an in-depth, total experience of one river per issue and its fish and fly fishing opportunities: its beauty *through color photography), its fly fishing throughout the year, its natural history as well as angling history (including noted personalities who have contributed to the fabric of the river's fly-fishing lore), and the special fly patterns created for the river as well as standard patterns that work well, all beautifully shown in color plates.
Look for these other famous river in this book series: Madison (MT), Silver Creek (ID), Green River (UT), Yakima (WA), Thompson (BC), Pere Marquette (MI), Henry's Fork (ID), Salmon River (NY), Big Hole (MT), Penn's Creek (PA), Yellowstone Park (WY), Upper Sacramento (CA), McKenzie (OR), Miramichi (New Brunswick), Rio Grande (CO/NM), Clark Fork (MT), Au Sable (MI), Crane Prairie/Upper Deschutes River (OR), North Platte (CO), Rogue River (OR), White River (AR), Grande Ronde (OR), and Delaware (NY).
Book Description
Enter the world of fly fishing with adventuresome women as they cast to a seething mass of sockeye salmon heading for their spawning grounds, master the technique of placing a tiny dry fly in precisely the right spot to tempt a hungry arctic grayling, watch thousand-pound brown bears dive for fish nearby, and much, much more. FLY FISHING WOMEN is a unique combination is a giftbook format of "how to" fly fishing techniques (including an illustrated section focusing on the author's favorite flies), stories about the women who learn to fish, and numerous photographs of Alaska's awesome fishing destinations and unique fish species.
Customer Reviews:
Gotta Get It NOW - best describes this Fantastic book!!!.......2007-01-29
The photography in this book is nothing short of amazing!!! The crisp, clear and close-up shots truly give the reader a sense of being right there on the water with rod & reel in hand.
With the vastness of Alaska, I found the maps and descriptions of each area to be an excellent resource for planning locals to fish. This book provides not only great tips on "where" to fish but "how" to fish, which flies to use and at what times of the year are best to target a specific species of fish. If you are interested in learning more about how to catch and land Sockeye & Silver Salmon, Artic Grayling, Rainbow Trout or Dolly Varden - the "how to" info in this book is sure to not disappoint!!! Regardless if you are a novice or an experienced fly fisher, male or female - this amazingly insightful book has many pearls of wisdom for you. There is a fantastic section in the back with Alaska's 20 Best Flies and how best to use them with close-up photographs of each fly. The price of the book is worth this section alone to me!!
This is an awesome book and I highly recommend it!!!
Fly Fishing Women Explore Alaska.......2007-01-12
This book has started a huge ground swell in our family!!!!! A book for women...to show us just HOW to catch those fish...FANTASTIC!!!!!!! I have pased this book on to friends and they in turn have gone out to buy their own copy..this is how GREAT it is to be able to read this book and truly UNDERSTAND how to fish!!!!!
Alaska is on our to do list for this Summer and we CERTAINLY hope that women, everywhere,catch the fever and GO FISHING WITH PUDGE !!!!!!!!
Fly Fishing Women Explore Alaska.......2007-01-11
What hit this book was with my mother. She just loved it!! And so much so she's looking at what it takes to set up a trip with the author to go fly fishing in Alaska.
I'd say based on that I'll be gifting this book to a few other females in my life.
Ladies! You Will Want to Fish Alaska!.......2003-10-01
I just finished reading "Fly Fishing Women" by Ceclia "Pudge" Kleinkauf. The book is a written in a fashion to make you think you are right there fishing along side all these ladies from different parts of the country. As you travel with this group to different parts of Alaska, Pudge explains in each section the equipment used and flies to tie on. The photography is beautiful. At the end of the book, there are 20 fly patterns with explanation on how to tie them and nice glossary. If you have not met Pudge this book is a great introduction to her passion for the sport of fly fishing. If you are new to fly fishing looking for good information and a fun read this is it. One thing is for sure, you will want to fish Alaska by the end of the book.
Book Description
A complete species-by-species guide to the ultimate fishing destination.
Top Water is a fishing book as immense in scope as the state it describes. Each of the ten major gamefish species is covered in chapters that give species biology and life history and then provide fishing information such as where to look for that fish, timing, tactics, fly theory, and gear requirements. From steelhead to cohos and sockeyes, from giant kings to feisty pinks, from vibrant rainbows to surprise grayling, char and lake trout, each chapter finishes with a thorough discussion of the species' range in Alaska with highlights on those rivers and drainages that will interest fly fishers.
Alaska is a dream fishing destination for anglers from around the world. Top Water does justice to those fantasies with more than 100 beautiful and informative full-color photographs. You'll see the natural beauty of the venues these fish inhabit as well as the details of what each species looks like, what kind of tackle you'll need, and what flies will be most effective. Full color maps offer quick reference for where to look for each species.
Top Water is more than a coffee table book; it's a comprehensive and definitive reference work; it's an armchair travelogue and a guidebook all in one. This guide to the fabled state of Alaska should be in every angling book outlet and part of every angling collection wherever that may be. Full-color throughout, 15 maps.
Customer Reviews:
A must have!.......2005-02-09
Not only is the photography fantastic but this book contains a lot of good information for those seeking an Alaska fishing adventure. The best of its type by far!
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Alaska Flyfishing: The Call of the River
Dan Heiner
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Breakfast at Trout's Place: The Seasons of an Alaskan Flyfisher
Ken Marsh
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The worked-over fly-fishing memoir gets a fresh sheen with Ken Marsh's tales from the Alaskan outback. A lifelong resident and editor of Alaska Magazine, Marsh has no need for wide-eyed descriptions of hairy bush plane flights or last-frontier soliloquies. Moreover, he gracefully sidesteps previous touchstones of the genre such as midlife crisis, midlife travel, and midlife discovery that equate fish as savior. Alaska is his savior, and while the fishing is good, what really sticks in the end is Marsh's evocative treatment of his stomping grounds.
When I was young, grayling were for me what bluegills often are for kids in the Lower Forty-eight: the first fish, common, generally easy to catch. Starting at age five, wearing rubber break-up boots and a second-hand wool jacket, I spent my Augusts along the gravel bars of the Nelchina River country fly-fishing for them while my elders hunted caribou.
Marsh sings his way along a Prince William Sound sea-run cutthroat creek to ward off lurking grizzlies; wrestles "bat-eating monsters" in a secret Susitna Valley creek; escapes upstream from the Kenai River hordes to pursue salmon in peace. These are not predictable tales of redemption and big fish; Marsh brings to these pages a sense of the mystery that is so essential to good angling literature, as in this extended metaphor for his uncommon local cutthroats:
There are certain items, mostly among the gear I use for hunting and fishing, that exist in an odd sort of limbo: a folding knife I've kept since boyhood, a bag of spare fly lines, a harmonica I sometimes take on wilderness trips. These things are never quite lost. Sometimes, one or another will vanish for extended periods--a summer, a year, occasionally, longer. But in time, they always turn up, out of the periphery, normally when I least expect them. Cutthroat trout possess a similar vagueness.
Anglers dreaming of Alaska would do well to dip into Ken Marsh's clear-eyed remembrances from a lifetime of fishing the state's seemingly endless waters; outdoors enthusiasts looking for a good read would, too.
Book Description
Ken Marsh will take you on a flyfishing adventure as only a native who has lived and flyfished his entire life in Alaska can. You won't find a catered, cozy flyfishing camp with protective, professional guides in these stories. Instead, you'll join Ken and his sometimes crazy, always interesting friends as they flyfish through the seasons in the real Alaska. Through it all, they're on a search for solitude, for the untrammeled, and for a place where angler and fish can meet in one moment that can't be taken back or forgotten. It's the same search all flyfishers are on, but the scale is, like the state itself, much grander than most of the Lower Forty-eight.
Customer Reviews:
Breakfast at Trout's Place.......2000-04-13
Finally a truthful book about fishing in Alaska. Too often we hear of rivers, bays, and streams that are so thick with fish that you can walk from bank to bank without getting your feet wet. As an August / September visitor to the Wood River System in Dillingham, I experienced the pleasure of catching seven different species of fish ... but mainly the mighty silver salmon on the fly. It was hard work, but each catch was well worth the effort. Ken Marsh has captured the true essence of the Alaskan fishing experience ... hard work, late nights, cold water, bears, eagles and also the experience that so many from the "lower 48" can only wish for.
As I return to Alaska this summer, I will use this volume as a guide to fishing areas, rod weights, and patterns. Ken has hit the pitching with this book ... a must read.
Book Description
Dream Fish & Road Trips is a brilliant collection of fly-fishing stories from a man who has traveled the world in search of adventures, from Christmas Island to Siberia.
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