Blue Ribbon Bow : A Fly-Fishing History of the Bow River -- Canada's Greatest Trout Stream

by McLennan, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780921835516
• ISBN10: 0921835515
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Johnson Gorman Book Pub

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Author's Acknowledgments	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
The Whole of the Bow	p. 15
A History of the Bow River Valley	p. 28
A History of the Bow River Trout Fishery	p. 55
The Bow River Trout Fishery Today	p. 65
Fishing the Bow River	p. 69
The Upper Bow River	p. 95
The Middle and Lower Bow River	p. 105
Fly Patterns	p. 138
The State of the Bow River Trout Fishery	p. 148
Bibliography	p. 164
Bow River Dry Flies	p. 169
Bow River Nymphs and Streamers	p. 171
A Year on the Bow--A Photo Essay	p. 173
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