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Our where-to stream and ocean guides will help you find great fishing spots, and our how-to fishing books will teach you how to flycast, tie flies, and match the hatch, and even how to make your own bamboo or graphite fly rod

Underwater Flies for Trout

A Comprehensive Guide to Subsurface Forage, Flies, and Tactics

Tom Fuller
Illustrations by Darlene Czapla Dewhurst

Now in paperback, an authoritative guide to choosing and tying the best underwater flies for trout.

Although the idea of using underwater flies is as old as fly fishing itself, modern anglers and entomologists have vastly expanded our knowledge of what trout eat underwater, where and when they find these tasty morsels, and how better to fool the trout with underwater imitations. Tom Fuller's unflagging curiosity about the art of fly fishing, and his impatience with the narrow confines of dry-fly fishing, have led him to experiment with and expand on the traditional and modern methods of fishing underwater flies. The result of his nearly lifelong interest is this book, the first comprehensive guide on the subject.

Nymphs, emergers, streamers, and traditional and new wet flies—Fuller covers them all, both in still water and swift, including new and improved patterns for dressing nymphs, streamers, and other imitations. And no matter how good a fly-caster you are or how perfect your imitation, you won't catch trout if you don't know where to find them. Underwater Flies for Trout tells you where to look for trout, how to approach them, and how to present artificials in a lifelike manner.

“Underwater Flies for Trout affords a comprehensive approach to fishing trout flies beneath the surface of all waters . . . Fuller draws on a remarkable breadth of material, skillfully building on the work of the masters of the underwater fly.”
—Will Ryan

“Destined to be a classic.”
—Ken Allen, The Maine Sportsman



$19.95 (Can. $30.00)
0-88150-602-8

7 x 10, 192 pages, paperback, 60 black & white photographs, 4-page color insert, 82 black & white illustrations, index