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50 EASTERN IDAHO HIKING TRAILS (and trouting retreats). by Ron Mitchell.
Guide to Sawtooth, White Cloud, Boulder, Smoky, Pioneer, Big Horn Crags, Lemhi, Teton Ranges. Complete trail descriptions including mileages, times required, elevations gained, seasons. Includes tips on backpacking in the Idaho Rockies, fishing gear including tackle and baits and where in the lakes and streams to expect more success. For each trail scenic features are described then what the roads to the trailheads are like, and finally what you would see as you hiked along them 71 Photographs, 51 maps, 105 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-87108-551-8. 1979. Order #: PRUE1149 paper$8.95.

AN ANGLER'S ASTORIA. by Dave Hughes. Steelhead, trout, and salmon fishing in Oregon. Insights and insider tips from n experienced angler presented as personal experiences. Illustrated with drawings, 177 pages.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 0-936608-07-2. 1982. Order #: FRAM6090 paper$9.95.

 

 

CALIFORNIA'S BEST FISHING WATERS: 182 detailed maps of 31 of the best rivers and streams.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-1-932098-49-5. Order #: WIAP9632 paper$29.95.

CATCHING TROPHY SALMON AND TROUT: Secrets of a Great Lakes pro. by Gerry Wolfram.
Proven techniques for all types of salmon and trout fishing from a charterboat skipper. Covers background and behavior of chinook, coho and pink salmon, rainbow, brown and lake trout and their cousins. How to fight a heavyweight, handling boats on big water, tactics for seasons, innovative techniques, tournament fishing. Photos & drawings, 256 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-8117-2011-X. 1996. Order #: STAC4225 paper$14.95.

 

 

COLORADO SOLAR/LUNAR/WEATHER FISHING & HUNTING GUIDE FOR 1994-95. by Bob Clark & Morton Leeper.
Authors give their beliefs on how solar/lunar charts relate to fishing and hunting; time tables. Introductory material explains the assumptions and methodology used to create charts of better fishing and hunting times, explains how to adjust data for differences in locality from a standard but also acknowledges that other factors influence success, and explains what they are. Charts for 1994-1995; update if used, 40 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-9617325-9-8. 1994. Order#: MLPU7020 paper$5.95.

 

 

COLORADO GREENBACK CUTTHROAT TROUT: a fisherman's guide. by Jim Rubingh & Richard Fritz.
Once thought to be extinct, now the famed Colorado greenback cutthroat trout can be caught in many Colorado waters. Learn about the fish's biology, history, and recovery along with information on where and how to catch this trout. Gives tables of waters stocked and when as the species was redistributed and provides hiking directions to places to fish for these cutthroats, with distances, elevations, quality ratings, and notes on other species. Includes catch rates, camping information. Color photographs, maps, 132 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-1-57188-447-3. 2009. Order #:FRAM8963 paper$19.95.

 

 

COLORADO'S BEST FISHING WATERS: 213 detailed maps of 73 of the best rivers, lakes, and streams. Wilderness Adventures Press.
For each fishing water, maps show roads and access points, trails, sections of rivers that have better and not good reaches, types of fish present, and GPS coordinates to pinpoint locations. In many cases indicates which waters are public and which may be private. Full-color maps, 221 large-format pages in sturdy easy-open lay-flat binding.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-1-932098-57-0. 2008. Order #: WIAP1622 paper$29.95.

 

 

COMPLETE ANGLER'S GUIDE TO OREGON. by John Shewey.
Covers over 1,200 waters: rivers, lakes, reservoirs, creeks, sloughs, bays, ponds, and beaches: best time to fish, species of each water, best tactics for warm-, salt-, and cold-water species. 96 detailed maps showing access, boat ramps, trails, campsites, roads, public land, towns, and river miles. Organized in 7 zones of the state. 439 pages, photographs.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 1-932098-31-0. Order #: WIAP6574 paper$29.95.

 

 

CRAB CRACKERS GUIDE; how to catch 'em, cook 'em, clean 'em, & eat 'em. by A. Leland Parker.
Provides 53 delicious crab recipes (regular and microwave). Tells about traps and lures, keeping them alive, conservation gear, boiling and steaming, cleaning anatomy. Emphasizes the blue crab, commonly found along the Gulf coast in shallow water along the bays, estuaries, sounds, channels, and river mouths. Tell male from female. Briefly lists other crab species: ghost, fiddler, hermit, and porcelain. Drawings, 32 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-913953-00-8. 1981. Order #: SOCO1055 paper$3.95.

 

 

FLYFISHER'S GUIDE TO COLORADO. by Marty Bartholomew. Details waters throughout the state to fly fish for trout--with maps of areas, hatch guides, descriptions of waters and how to fish them, places to stay and eat and shop for flies and gear. 590 pages, index, illustrated.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 1-932098-64-8. Order #: WIAP6581 paper$29.95.

 

 

 

 

GREAT PIERS OF CALIFORNIA: a guided tour. by Jean Femling.
Pier-hopping on the California coast from San Diego to Crescent City offers an array of oceanside wharfs, each having its own personality. History, special features, and beauty of 41 piers on the cost. There is fishing; sight-seeing; dining including feasting on fresh catches of fish, crab, octopus, oysters, and shrimp; boat and ferry tours and fishing outfitters; watching surfers and sunbathers, fish and jellyfish plus other animal life such as gulls, pelicans, cormorants. Maps showing pier locations, photographs, 140 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-88496-222-9. Order #: CAPR4314 paper$7.95.

 

 

A GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA FRESHWATER FISHES. by Bob Madgic. 
Enhanced by William Crary's 66 species paintings, will assist in identifying and learning about the fish species that inhabit California's waters. Fish are logically grouped into coldwater game fish, warmwater game fish and non-game fish. Each fish gets a detailed and interesting description, along with a first-rate illustration Also habitat photos, maps and diagrams.160 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-0-87961-254-2 . Order #: NAGR2082 paper$19.95.

 

 

KAMLOOPS--an angler's study of the Kamloops trout. by Steve Raymond. The Kamloops area of British Columbia contains hundreds of lakes with big trout, and this book tells how to fish for them--feeding habits, flies to use, methods. Also relates history of the species which has produced fish catches of both large numbers and large sizes. Discussion of fish life history, feeding, management, flies to use, tackle and techniques. Once considered a separate trout species it has also been classified a subspecies of rainbow trout, the kamloops rainbow, now transplanted into several U.S. areas. Maps of fishing waters, black and white photos plus color illustrations of flies, 252 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-936608-09-9. Covers lightly scuffed. Order #: FRAM6092 paper$9.95.

 

 

ON THE SPINE OF TIME: an angler's love of the Smokies. Harry Middleton. Evokes the deep, rich beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains while introducing local characters and bringing to life the pleasures of fishing its trout-filled streams. Part autobiography and part homage to the two old men who taught him to love the outdoors. Filled with neat anecdotes and salty reflections. Award-winner. 240 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN:0-671-69141-4  1991. Order #: SISC7154 cloth$18.95.

 

 

NEVADA ANGLER'S GUIDE: fish tails in the sagebrush. by Richard Dickerson.
Describes waters with good public access and low fishing pressures--with directions, techniques, successful flies. Photos, 156 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 1-57188-100-X. 1997. Order #: FRAM1091 paper$14.95.

 

 

NORTHWEST ANGLING. by Enos Bradner.
Book deals primarily with steelhead and salmon in this region, but also includes sea-run cutthroat; lures (even flies) or bait to use, rivers of Washington, Oregon, and California to fish. Guide to virtually all fishing area in this region--where to fish, how to get there, fishing techniques, rigging bait and lures, drift-fishing from boats, bank fishing. Photos, drawings, 249 page, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-833-0125-6.  (Not on book.) 1969. Order #: BIMO4767 cloth$14.95.

 

 

SHRIMP SHUCKER'S GUIDE; how to catch 'em, cook 'em, clean 'em, eat 'em. by A. Leland Parker.
Describes the shrimp species we eat (brown, white, and pink) of the several hundred species, where they are caught, nature of commercial shrimping, catching your own when the season is right with trawling, seining, cast net, push net, or dip net. Then "taking care of your catch". Also tips on buying shrimp and cleaning raw shrimp, and shucking. Ends with 25 delicious shrimp recipes plus notes on sauces and marinades. Map, drawings, 36 pages.
Inventory = 4. ISBN: None. Order #: SOCO1303 paper$3.95.

 

 

SIERRA TROUT GUIDE. by Ralph Cutter.
Sierra trout live in a wonderful environment which is portrayed in 100 beautiful color photos on thick glossy stock. Learn how to successfully fish the lakes and streams from an expert. Color fly plates and tying recipes for all the most productive fly patterns. Tackle and technique information that reveals the best ways to hook trout. Information on backpacking, fishing and hiking checklists, maps and permits, most productive waters. Distribution charts containing names and locations of over 550 rivers and 1,700 lakes and the trout species they contain. 112 inches, 8 x 11 color,
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-1-878175-02-1. Order #: FRAM2030 paper$19.95.

 

 

SNAKE RIVER COUNTRY: flies and waters. by Bruce Staples.
Fly fishing in the Snake River and its tributaries in eastern Idaho with history of the flies used in this area. 86 flies are shown in color with descriptions of how to tie and fish them and who created the pattern and why. Streams included are main Snake, Henry's Fork, South Fork Snake and Teton rivers as well as dozens of other lightly fished smaller streams, spring creeks, lakes and reservoirs. Color photos, 96 pages, regional map, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 1-878175-08-4. Order #: FRAM1021 paper$19.95.

 

 

 

TROUT FISHING THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. by J. Wayne Fears.
State-by-state guidebook to the trout streams, lakes, and tailwarters of the eight states bordering the Southern Appalachians: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Tells best ways to catch, release, clean, and cook trout; flies or lures for certain streams. Photographs, maps, 188 pages.
Inventory = 4. ISBN: 0-914788-10-8- 1979. Order #: GLPE0417 paper$7.95.

 

 

YOSEMITE TROUT FISHING GUIDE. Beck.
From Yosemite's easily accessible roadside spots to remote off-trail backcountry locations, provides history, hatches, climate, regulations, what fish you can expect to find, and how to catch them. 158 pages, photos, maps..
Inventory =1. ISBN:1-57188-223-5. Order #: FRAM6128 paper$15.95.

 

 

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