The Phenological Fly: A Method for Meeting and Matching the Super Hatches of the West - Hardcover

Scammell, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0921835159 ISBN 13: 9780921835158

Publisher: Johnson Gorman Book Pub, 1995

Synopsis

The Phenological Fly takes the mystery out of meeting and matching the fabled insect super-hatches of the West with a proven and original approach to enhancing angling success. This guide links the appearance of the insect super-hatches (their phenology) to the blooming of native streamside wildflowers, shrubs and trees. Illustrated with detailed, full-color photographs of insects with their corresponding blooms.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Scammell has been fishing and hunting for more than forty years and writing about the sports for more than twenty years in an award-winning weekly outdoors column in various Alberta newspapers. He also is a frequent contributor to fishing magazines throughout the West. His first book, The Outside Story, was selected the outstanding outdoors book of the year in 1983 by the Outdoor Writers of Canada. He also is the author of The Phenological Fly: A Method for Meeting and Matching the Super Hatches of the West. Bob Scammell has served as President of the Alberta Fish and Game Association and as a Director of the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

Review

"His color photos of the bloom and the insect hatch which each predicts are razor-sharp and brilliant." -- Real Outdoors, March 1996

Edition details

• Publisher: Johnson Gorman Book Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0921835159
• ISBN 13: 9780921835158
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64