West Coast Steelheader: the best advice for catching steelhead with natural baits, plugs, spoons and flies
West Coast Steelheader: the best advice for catching steelhead with natural baits, plugs, spoons and flies

West Coast Steelheader: the best advice for catching steelhead with natural baits, plugs, spoons and flies

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By: Ocean West - Compiled by Mark Pendlington, Matt Guiguet, Steve Kaye, Art Lingren,, David Murphy, Barry M. Thornton
ISBN: 978-0-88839-459-0
Binding: Trade Paper
Size: 8.5" X 5.5"
Pages: 96
Photos: 81
Illustrations: 8
Publication Date: 2000

Description

PR Highlights: A Guide to Steelhead Fishing on the West Coast.
PHOTO Highlights: 32 page full-color photo section.

Description: West Coast Steelheader celebrates the sea-going species of rainbow trout. Sportfishing enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest are blessed with the opportunity to fish for one of the world's most powerful and awesome sport fish. West Coast Steelheader celebrates this sea-going species of rainbow trout. The contributing authors draw upon their years of experience and offer readers suggestions and recommendations to truly enjoy and appreciate fishing for winter and summer steelhead.

This book is filled with concise information and beautiful full color pictures that truly are a celebration of the steehead and the rivers of the West Coast with exacting descriptions from the authors you will want to read it again and again. This book removes the mystery and informs and motivates you to know steelhead better.

Author Biographies

ARTHUR LINGREN
Through most of his adult life, Art Lingren has been involved in the fishing community. He is a member and past president of the Totem Flyfishers, an honorary member of the Loons Fly Fishing Club, a long-time member of the BC Federation of Fly Fisher (BCFFF) acting as their historian and vice-chair, and has served many years as a director of the Steelhead Society of BC. He has been awarded the BCFFF's Angul Award, given to BC fly fishers who show an appreciation for the ancestry of fly fishing and its development. Art's books include Fly Patterns of Roderick Haig-Brown, River Journal: Thompson River, Fly Patterns of British Columbia, Irresistible Waters: Fly Fishing in BC Throughout the Year and River Journal: Dean River.

BARRY THORNTON
Barry Thornton is one of BC's best known and respected fishing authors, having earned the Outdoor Writers of Canada Award of Merit, as well as the Roderick Haig-Brown Memorial Award. He has been involved with fishing and the outdoors for most of his life, as a professional educator, and as an outdoors writer and photographer. Founding chairman and tree-time president of the Steelhead Society of BC, he is a devoted and knowledgeable angler who has much to share with his fellow fishermen.

KELLY DAVISON
Kelly Davison has been guiding and teaching fly fishing on the south coast of BC most of his adult life. Hi is an active member of the Steelhead Society of BC, and the BC Federation of Fly Fisher. Kelly is well known for his active television career, completing five primetime programs for the Sportsfishing British Columbia series.