Finding Trout in All Conditions

“A third-generation fishing guide on many waters around the world, Boots is one of the foremost experts in trout fishing. The answers are here.” – Jim Hickey, 2008 Orvis Endorsed Guide of the Year

Bringing 30+ years’ experience guiding and fishing around the world with some of the best anglers in the sport, Boots Allen shares what it takes to succeed when stalking trout with a fly rod. There are the obvious elements of the fly, the presentation, and reading the water properly. But what about those factors brought on by Mother Nature in the form of weather, climate, and the water itself? 

Finding Trout in All Conditions: A Guide to Understanding Nature's Forces for Better Production on the Water is a comprehensive examination of those parts of the natural world that impact trout, trout food and forage, and fly fishing. Boots provides valuable insight into how trout and the food they eat are influenced by barometric pressure, precipitation, air and water temperature, wind, sunlight and cloud cover, moon phase, and water-related factors like water levels, pH, dissolved oxygen levels, and specific conductance. Special attention is given to strategies and tactics anglers should employ when specific conditions are predominant.

Readers will be left with a greater awareness of how success on the water is impacted by those often-overlooked elements of the natural world.

Boots Allen is a third-generation fly fishing guide who for the past thirty-plus years has worked on many of the storied trout streams in the Rocky Mountain West. His enthusiasm for fishing and guiding has taken him to waters around the world, including Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina, British Columbia, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, and the Bahamas. Boots is a three time high scoring guide in the annual Jackson Hole One-Fly Contest, a high scoring angler in the East Idaho Bass on the Fly Tournament, and winner of the prestigious 2007 Carmichael-Cohen Award. He has penned articles for fly fishing and outdoor magazines and is the author of Snake River Fly Fishing: Through The Eyes of an Angler (Amato Books, 2010), Modern Trout Fishing: Tactics and Strategies for Today’s Fly Fisher (Lyons Press, 2013), and Snake River Flies (Graphic Arts Books, 2014).