The Orvis Pocket Guide to Dry-Fly Fishing: A Detailed Field Guide to Casting, Strategies, Fly Selection, and Presentation »

TOM ROSENBAUER is the author of The Orvis Guide to Reading Trout Streams (page 158), The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide (page 158), The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide (page 158), and many other important books for fly fishers. He is the vice president of marketing at the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont and lives in nearby Arlington.

ROD WALINCHUS has illustrated numerous books, including Western Fly-Fishing Strategies (page 163), Practical Fishing Knots (page 159), Presenting the Fly (page 159), and The Orvis Streamside Guide to Approach and Presentation (page 159). He lives in Livingston, Montana.

Here are flies, fly selection, presentations, retrieves, and hook-setting tactics for different types of water--all in a small, easy-to-carry, full-color book.

This handy reference and guidebook covers the essential elements of this most exciting form of fly fishing, including tips on how to select the right dry fly for the situation, the best types of water and the best time of day to fish dries, identifying rise forms and what the fish are eating, special leaders and the right rod and line, and ways to present the fly to make it look natural. Also included are valuable tips on how to approach a rising fish without spooking it, and how to cast the fly on the water to obtain the best results.

Whether "fishing the water" for trout that are not seen rising or to rising, selective feeders, this vest-pocket reference book should be in the tackle bag or vest of anyone who lives to catch trout feeding on the surface.

Illustrated with color photos and superb drawings by Rod Walinchus, this pocket guide will come in handy for beginners and experts alike.

	Introduction	vii
1.	What's a Hatch?	1
	What Happens During a Hatch	2
	How Trout Feed on Dry Flies	9
	How Trout React to a Hatch	10
	Hatches Change with the Season	13
	Effects of Water Level and Temperature	17
2.	Insects And Their Imitations	21
	Selectivity	21
	Mayflies	24
	Caddisflies	33
	Stoneflies	43
	Midges	46
	Terrestrials	55
	Other Interesting Surface Food	63
	Attractor Flies	64
	Basic Fly Selection	67
3.	Dry-Fly Tackle	73
	Rods	73
	Lines	74
	Reels	76
	Leaders and Tippet	76
	Flotants, Drying Agents, and Boxes	83
4.	Dry-Fly Techniques	88
	Drag and Why It's So Bad	88
	Special Casts	90
	Slack Line Cast	90
	Reach Cast	93
	Mending and Skidding the Fly Into Position	95
	Curve Cast	97
	The Moving Dry Fly	99
	Proper Use of the Basic False Cast	104
	Angles for Drift and Approach	105
	Straight Up	105
	Quartering Up	108
	Across Stream	109
	Quartering Downstream	109
	Straight Downstream	111
	Keeping Track of an Unseen Fly	112
5.	Fishing To Hatches	116
	Finding Rising Fish	116
	Types of Rises and How to Spot Them	121
	Visible Trout, Difficult Fish, and Cruisers	130
	Prospecting with a Dry When There is No Hatch	136
	Index	141