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

Among fly fishers Alberta is fast becoming recognized as a special place where anglers can find a lifetime of sport. Veteran angler Jim McLennan examines the province river system by river system, focusing on the best opportunities that each provides—from wilderness cutthroat and grayling streams to intimate brown trout creeks to internationally acclaimed rainbow rivers. He draws on 30 years of experience to make sound recommendations on tackle, technique and fly patterns. Enhanced by detailed access and drainage maps, color and black and white illustrations, hatch charts and trout species profiles.

Jim McLennan is an ardent fly-fisher, outdoor writer, photographer and river conservationist. He was one of the first fly-fishing guides on the Bow River, and in his thirty years of fishing the river he has seen its reputation grow to international status. He is the host of the television series Iron Blue Fly-Fishing and a frequent contributor to outdoor publications. The first edition of Blue Ribbon Bow received the Outdoor Writers of Canada Book of the Year Award and his Trout Streams of Alberta, a national best-seller, earned him the Andy Russell Nature Writing Award.