Madison: River Journal

by John Holt, Jeff Findley

This River Journal is one book in a continueing series highlighting the premier North American fly fishing rivers. For continuity, each issue is authored by one experiences writer/angler. Professional color photographs show the river in all its seasonal moods. Helpful area maps provide access information for anglers including river drifting, campgrounds, boat launching, shuttling, etc. There is much practical, insider fly-fishing help including timing of different insect hatches, matching flies to use, lodging, guide and fly shop services, additional bibliography, map sources, phone numbers, and addresses. Each book in this series provides curious anglers with an in-depth, total experience of one river per issue and its fish and fly fishing its beauty *through color photography), its fly fishing throughout the year, its natural history as well as angling history (including noted personalities who have contributed to the fabric of the river's fly-fishing lore), and the special fly patterns created for the river as well as standard patterns that work well, all beautifully shown in color plates. Look for these other famous river in this book Silver Creek (ID), Green River (UT), Kenai (AK), Yakima (WA), Thompson (BC), Pere Marquette (MI), Henry's Fork (ID), Salmon River (NY), Big Hole (MT), Penn's Creek (PA), Yellowstone Park (WY), Upper Sacramento (CA), McKenzie (OR), Miramichi (New Brunswick), Rio Grande (CO/NM), Clark Fork (MT), Au Sable (MI), Crane Prairie/Upper Deschutes River (OR), North Platte (CO), Rogue River (OR), White River (AR), Grande Ronde (OR), and Delaware (NY).

48 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1992

About the author

Writer living in Livingston, Montana with my wife, photographer Ginny. Have 14 published books including Hunted: A Novel, Coyote Nowhere - In Search of America's Last Frontier, and Arctic Aurora - Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories. AK Press will release my next book, Yellowstone Drift - Float the Past in Real Time in February 2009. This one is about canoeing the Yellowstone from below the northern boundary of Yellowstone Park to the river's confluence with the Missouri at Ft. Buford, North Dakota or about 525 miles. Have contributed stories to publications that include Men's Journal, Gray's Sporting Journal, Art of Angling Journal, The Denver Post, Briarpatch, E - The Environmental Magazine, California Literary Review, Outside, Counterpunch and Fly Rod & Reel. Camping, canoeing, upland bird hunting, cooking, reading, photography, fly fishing, hiking keep him occupied