<li>Learn to read and understand western water and what to expect in each season on different types of streams</li>
<li>How to select the best, most effective patterns for western trout </li>
<li>Western hatch chart Author Jim McLennan takes readers out on the water to show in detail how best to fish trout streams in the West from Canada to Mexico. The lessons come directly from McLennan's experiences on the water. Covers tactics for dry fly fishing as well as fishing from a drift boat.
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Fly-Fishing Western Trout Streams

Sports & Outdoors

McLennan, Jim

Hiking & Camping

Stackpole Books

A detailed field guide to the major Alberta river systems - complete with illustrations, maps, hatch charts, trout species profiles and recommendations on tackle, techniques and fly patterns.

Trout Streams of Alberta: A Guide to the Best Fly-Fishing

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Johnson Gorman Book Pub

Proclaimed one of the greatest trout streams in the world, "a magnificent accident" and "the most misunderstood fishery in North America," the Bow River has for decades been luring fly-rodders to its banks. In this history of the river and its anglers, acclaimed outdoor writer Jim McLennan traces the ancient, glacial origins of the river and follows it to the modern day, where the chance combination of natural and man-made elements has transformed the Bow into one of the world's finest trout fisheries. From there he examines the impact of human activity on the river and offers guidance on how to preserve the only première trout stream in North America to flow through a major city. He traces the river's path from its headwaters high in the Rocky Mountains to its middle and lower reaches and along the way offers a veteran's advice on tackle, technique and flies for successful angling through the seasons.

Blue Ribbon Bow

Nature & Ecology

LONE PINE PUBLISHING*

Traces the Bow’s ancient glacial origins to the modern day, with a look at the impact of human activity on the river, and advice for successful fishing through the seasons.

Blue Ribbon Bow: A Fly-Fishing History of the Bow River-Canada's Greatest Trout Stream

Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea. 
Fly fishing is considered perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees – for the most part. Trout Tracks includes pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, plus stories of quiet successes and loud failures, in sum revealing the soul of “the quiet sport.” 
You won’t learn from this book how to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you’ve ever fly fished – or if you want to – you’ll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places.

Trout Tracks: Essays on Fly Fishing

Earth Sciences

Rocky Mountain Books