The essays in this book detail Paul Schullery's thoughtful philosophical understanding of the western fly fisher: where we came from, what we care about, and what our prospects are.

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing as a quintessential experience of communion with nature belies the sport’s long history of environmental manipulation, engineering, and, ultimately, transformation. A fly-fishing enthusiast herself, Brown places the rise of recreational trout fishing in a local and global context. Globally, she shows how the European sport of fly-fishing came to be a defining, tourist-attracting feature of the expanding 19th-century American West. Locally, she traces the way that the burgeoning fly-fishing tourist industry shaped the environmental, economic, and social development of the Western United States: introducing and stocking favored fish species, eradicating the less favored native “trash fish,” changing the courses of waterways, and leading to conflicts with Native Americans’ fishing and territorial rights. Through this analysis, Brown demonstrates that the majestic trout streams often considered a timeless feature of the American West are in fact the product of countless human interventions adding up to a profound manipulation of the Rocky Mountain environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKMwEkKj9jg

What was to be a summer hoot turned to an extreme passion for very, very large Rainbow Trout. The years past, the memories mounted, the photos with Sports with huge Trout, priceless. When it's over and the years catch up and ravage your body, it might be time to put pen to paper and remember all those wonderful people, the flying machines, Trout, bears, and the best luck life has to offer. Alaskan Trout People is a love story, an adventure story, a story of great successes, with colorful, fun people, happy, happy, happy. Every day, you're in a Pump Boat, floatplane, raft, exploring the wilderness waters of back-country Alaska. River Guide's life was dedicated to his Sports' successes on his Trout waters. He has a very colorful family of Trout People. Bad Dude, Slope Girl, Cheeseburger, Chief Carl, ya gotta love 'em all. This is a story about the ups and downs of life (98 percent ups). The everyday dynamics of a bush world are lots of challenges and lots of work. The Moo Dudes, Mr. Jerry, the Preacher were all wonderful people who became family. It was important to the author to write about all those years of Alaskan Trout People. It's a book about family and very, very large Rainbow Trout.

A comprehensive examination of the latest trout fishing methods, it investigates the most recent research in ocular, aural, and scent characteristics of trout, contemporary trends in dry fly, nymph, and streamer fishing, useful approaches to casting and fly presentation, and the newest and hottest fly patterns for saltwater, warm water, and anadromous fishing, as they are applied to trout.

In essays sometimes controversial, sometimes reflective, all fascinating, Paul Schullery ruminates on the evolution of fly fishing.

Aldo Leopold was known to advocate a love of sport as a catalyst for conservation, and his own preference was the sport of fly fishing. But fly fishing is not just a religious or spiritual endeavour. It is also a sport essential to the conservation movement. No fly fisherman wishes to wade into rivers full of stormwater, to cast for invasive Asian carp. Freshwater anglers have been foundational to the preservation and management of freshwater fisheries and waters for centuries. To Leopold s land ethic, fly fishing adds an aquatic vitality. Surveys of fly fishing culture reveal that the sport ranks among the highest for experiences of nature and understanding of ecology. So, it s not surprising that fly fishing, and organizations like Trout Unlimited, has influenced fisheries management, conservation, and restoration in coldwater systems across the world. Backcasts reels these important topics in by exploring the intersection of conservation and fly fishing, in its history, present, and potential future."