<li>Tactics for Great Lakes steelhead, including new two-handed and switch rod techniques and Spey and tube flies</li>
<li>Specifics on key rivers and streams in each of the Great Lakes states and provinces</li>
<li>Understanding steelhead behavior, choosing where to fish, and reading the water</li>

Advanced Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead

Sports & Outdoors

Kustich, Rick

Hunting & Fishing

Stackpole/Headwater

The most complete fly fishing guide to musky to date Musky, short for muskellunge, have been called the fish of 10,000 casts and are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, fish to catch on a fly. Musky have a large range--from northern Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and northern Minnesota through the Great Lakes region, north into Canada, throughout most of the St. Lawrence River drainage and northward throughout the upper Mississippi valley, extending as far south as Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley. This much-anticipated book is the most complete guide to fly fishing for musky to date and includes fly patterns, wisdom, and local techniques from top guides around the country: Blane Chocklett (Virginia); Brad Bohen (Wisconsin); Chris Willen (Tennessee), and more.

Hunting Musky with a Fly

Stackpole Books

Modern Spey Fishing is a complete guide to contemporary Spey casting and fishing techniques made possible through current advancements in equipment and line designs. The book looks at much more than the traditional approaches for salmon and steelhead, exploring a wider scope of species including inland trout, smallmouth bass, and even saltwater game fish. It thoroughly covers in understandable terms today's Spey lines and heads while diving in deep to discuss various presentation techniques for both two-handed and single-handed approaches. Modern Spey Fishing provides the basis for enjoying all that Spey has to offer while addressing the current developments in the sport.

Modern Spey Fishing: A Complete Guide to Tactics and Techniques for Single- and Two-Handed Approaches

A Comprehensive guide to one of the most exciting fly fishing locations in North America. The Great Lakes region is contained within eight states and one Canadian providence from the urban to the uninhabited. Throughout this region are the tributaries- rivers, streams and creeks - which offer fly fishers the exciting opportunity to take trophy fish on a fly rod. Topics include: * Trophy Fish of the Great Lakes  * Equipment * The Water  * Methods and Techniques  * Utilizing a Boat  * Flies  * Hooking and Landing Your Trophy  * Where to Go

Fly Fishing the Great Lakes Tributaries

West River Pub. Co

As the Great Lakes steelhead fishery moves into the 21st century, it provides an opportunity that can be considered no less than world class. Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead captures the very essence of its emergence. From its obscure beginnings to its current proactive management plans, the book covers the fishery's growth and maturity. Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead also covers, in great detail, a complete fly fishing approach to the varied challenges provided by Great Lakes steelhead and a complete guide to its important waters. 
 Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead has been a work-in-progress for over five years. During this period, authors Rick Kustich and Jerry Kustich have spent considerable time fishing all the major rivers and streams of the entire Great Lakes region as well as consulting with and meeting the area's top professional to discuss management plans, rivers, techniques and flies. This is coupled with nearly forty years' combined experience of fly fishing for steelhead in the Great Lakes and on the West Coast. This combination has created a unique perspective that has not yet been given to this subject. Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead will change the way we view the fishery and is detined to become the authoritative pronouncement on the subject.

Flyfishing for Great Lakes Steelhead: An Advanced Look at an Emerging Fishery

Kustich, Jerry

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), Kenai (AK), Yakima (WA), Thompson (BC), Pere Marquette (MI), Henry's Fork (ID), 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).

Salmon River (River Journal, Vol 3, No 2, 1995)

Frank Amato Pubns

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