July 21st, 2010 
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Product Description
*8-page color section
* Map
* 6 x 9
* The most complete guide available
* Fishing, camping, and hiking tips
* Extensive list of waters and how to reach them
Great fishing in breathtaking surroundings can be had in the Rocky Mountains, but you’ll need this book, because unlike many remote destinations with fly-in access, these waters can only be reached on horseback or on foot. Part One covers gear and techniques for traveling, cam… More >>
Fly Fishing the Rocky Mountain Backcountry
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The author does a fairly good job of telling those of us who paid for the book where we can find some trout in the Rocky Mountains. If you are like me and have traveled hundreds of miles into the back country (Wyoming is a perfect example) only to find “no tresspassing” signs EVERYWHERE at the end of EVERY road, you too will wonder why strip maps (or any maps at all) were not included in this book. If you are thinking to get this book for photos of wilderness and wild trout – forget it – there are only a few photos. If you are willing to invest a lot of time (and money on topo maps)trying to find the spots in the book, and have loads of free time to pick apart the directions while peering over a map this is a good book. I am willing to hump a pack up a mountain to fly fish for wild trout – I just think the book could of left out the first 142 pages and included maps and photos and made a great guide book…
Rating: 3 / 5
This book was in great condition and provided me with a ton of useful info. I have recommended it to numerous friends already. Great buy!
Rating: 4 / 5
keep in mind that the book was PUBLISHED in 1999. A lot changes in mountain lakes in that time alone, much less the time since he was actually at most of the lakes he discusses. Again, the read is great– the info solid and often very informative– just dont expect to find the fish sizes he mentions as many of the lakes. In my personal experience at several of the lakes he mentions the fish were at times of different types than he found (i.e. cutthroat trout rather than goldcutt hybrids) and almost always of diffent sizes (typically, though not always, smaller than he mentions). That said, BY FAR the best lake to fish for Golden Trout is Lightning Lake in Montana.
If anything the size of the Goldens in that lake is increasing year to year from my personal experience. Amazing Fishing.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book was at least very interesting. I enjoy reading about places that are not frequented too often by anglers or other people. I have already planned a few hikes centered around some of the places he describes and mentions in the book. I feel that he does not go into great detail about locations. At times I was confused at exactly what location he was describing. There are a few chapters that I found completely irrelevant like the one on photographing fish. Overall, however, I enjoyed reading this book and it is one I will keep in my library.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is the best “where and how” regional fly fishing guide I have read. I have fished streams and still waters from Loreto, Mexico to Ferney and Golden, B.C. and live in Dubois, Wyoming, in the Wind River Mountains. With the exception on John Baughman’s “Wyoming Fishing,” now long out of print, and essentially limited to a “Go to this lake or this stream, use a gray fly from this rock to catch a cutthroat trout,” info pamphlet, this book is more knowledgeable and “how to” centered that any publication I’ve read about about fly fishing in back country of Wyoming, Colorado, B.C. or Montana, with the possible exception of Craig Mathew’s materials narrowed to the Greater Yellowstone area. And, of course, you don’t want to try to fish in Colorado, unless you like fishing in public parks, because, if I understand it, the penalty for even touching a stream bed there with a rod in your hand, is now 5 years and $2,500. Those California transplants take the property rights more personally than Arizonans take their Mexicans.
Walwyn M. Trezise, Dubois, Wyoming.
Rating: 5 / 5