Instinctive Fly Fishing: A Guide's Guide to the Basics of Fly Fishing

In fly fishing, as in life, the very simplest things are the most important, and the easiest to overlook. Streit, in this important new book, reveals what he has learned in more than twenty years of guiding fly fishing trips.

Streit has witnessed thousands of clients catch trout over the years, and their successes and failures often boiled down to a few elementary rules: keep the sun at your back, keep your silhouette off the water, keep your fly in productive water, think like a predator, and so on.

With an almost Zen-like scrutiny, Streit discusses his distilled techniques for fishing pressured trout. He looks into what separates the beginner from the expert caster, and dissects the mechanics of the perfect strike.

Other chapters include Streit's novel approaches to: drift-nymphs-dries-swing-bluegills and bobbers-reading water-riffles-eddy fishing-hiring a guide-fighting fish-wading-catch and release--maps

The result is a refreshing take on how simple this complex sport really is.

Hall of Fame guide Taylor Streit started fly fishing a half century ago in New York's Catskill Mountains. Besides guiding for the last 25 years he's been a fly shop owner, commercial fly tier, and bonefish guide. He currently runs a guiding service in New Mexico and Argentina.

He is the author of No- Nonsense Guide to Fly Fishing New Mexico and writes and photographs for various outdoor publications. He conducts seminars and schools based on Instinctive Fly Fishing and can be contacted though his web page-www.streitflyfishing.com

He lives in Taos, New Mexico, near his daughter Chelsea and son Nick