A veteran fly fisherman provides a complete guide to steelhead fishing in the Great Lakes region, describing the steelhead fish and their natural history, their feeding habits, what flies to use, essential tackle, fishing tactics, and the best fly fishing streams along the shores of all five Great Lakes.

Steelhead is the most sought-after Great Lakes species, attracting fly fishers from around the country. Guide extraordinaire Karl Weixlmann provides a thorough compendium of information, tips, and tech niques for any angler chasing the elusive salmon, trout, and steelhead of the Great Lakes. Includes recipes for 86 flies and photo sequences of five casting and fishing techniques.

Tactics for Great Lakes steelhead, including new two-handed and switch rod techniques and Spey and tube flies.

Veteran fly fisherman Bob Linsenman is your guide to the best steelhead fishing the Great Lakes have to offer. The Great Lakes Basin has become home to some of the best steelhead fishing in North America. Several world-record fish have now come from this region, and its popularity has grown along with the health of this fishery. Now, for the first time in a single volume, Bob Linsenman gives you the background on these fish, how they came to be in the Great Lakes, what they feed on, what flies best imitate their food base, plus the low-down on tackle, tactics, and where to go to have the best luck. No other volume offers this detailed assessment of the best fly fishing streams along the shores of all five Great Lakes. This indispensable book is a must- have for every angler contemplating a shot at these great fish. 50 black & white photographs, 8 color pages, 10 maps, index.

Providing both a look at the Great Lakes steelhead fishery's growth and maturity and a complete fly fishing approach to the varied challenges presented by Great Lakes steelhead, this book is destined to become a much-thumbed reference for anyone interested in fishing these waters.

The most all-encompassing compendium of truly valuable information on steelhead ever written. —Jack Hemingway There are exceptional chapters on the fish itself; the tackle and techniques used to pursue it under diverse circumstances in such great steelhead rivers as the Deschutes, the Dean, the North Umpqua, the Bulkley, the Rogue and the Babine, and memorable profiles of the modern masters and the fly patterns they developed.