the Old Fly Shop

Provides a detailed account of the personality of each river and lake with vital information on trout behavior, insect life, flies and lures for anglers. Includes many excellent but often overlooked waters.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joe Humpreys, a veteren of over 60 years of flyfishing experience, reffered to as the Angling Professor, retired from Penn State University after 20 years. He is the author of several books and videos and hosted the first national fly fishing TV series.

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This is a book that teaches a kid how to tie a fly- written by an 11-year old! Kids & adults alike can learn to use feathers, fur, beads, paints, & other materials to creat imitations of insects, fish, & other animals that live in streams, rivers, & lakes. Color photos so you can check your handiwork against the pros; 8x10 inches, 128 pgs.

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Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx. Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father. By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by." A first offering from a 70-year-old writer, the basis of a top-grossing movie, and the first original fiction published by the University of Chicago Press, A River Runs through It and Other Stories has sold more than a million copies. As Proulx writes in her foreword to this new edition, "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made." REVIEWS"Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. . . . As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway."--Alfred Kazin, Chicago Tribune Book World "It is an enchanted tale. . . . I have read the story three times now, and each time it seems fuller."-- Roger Sale, New York Review of Books "Maclean's book, A River Runs through It and Other Stories,is acerbic, laconic, deadpan--rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren. I love its sound."--James R. Frakes, New York Times Book Review"The title novella is the prize. . . . Something unique and marvelous: a story that is at once an evocation of nature's miracles and realities and a probing of human mysteries. Wise, witty, wonderful, Maclean spins his tales, casts his flies, fishes the rivers and the woods for what he remembers from his youth in the Rockies."--Publishers Weekly "Ostensibly a 'fishing story,' 'A River Runs through It' is really an autobiographical elegy that captivates readers who have never held a fly rod in their hand. In it the art of casting a fly becomes a ritual of grace, a metaphor for man's attempt to move into nature."--Andrew Rosenheim, The IndependentABOUT THE AUTHORNorman Maclean (1902-1990) was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is also the author of a book on Montana's Mann Gulch forest fire of 1949, Young Men and Fire.

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Waller shares his techniques for swinging wets & waking dry flies, including proper approach, presentation, & his favorite fly patterns, both classic & contemporary. Covers: hunting trophies, equip, casting, & conservation. Provides readers with a life's worth of wisdom learned from Waller's time on the water. 189 color photos by Ken Morrish, 10 color illus; 8.5x11 inches, 216 pgs.

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Efficient, practical methods for constructing tails, hackles, & bodies on a variety of dry fly types. Tested techniques that have been developed over 30 years. DVD.

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New and specific presentation techniques beyond traditional dead drifting including Long-line nymphing, no-line nymphing, downstream strategies, micronymphing, nymphing lakes, and designing your own imitations. Instruction on hauling with weighted rigs, hammering, jabbing, tilting the rod plane, roll casting, elliptical casts, curve casts, downstream loading. 5 page color section with 16 photos, 55 illus. 6x9 inches, 192 pgs.

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Goes beyond the basics. How to: rig multiple nymph set-ups including the Czech nymph system; cast multiple fly rigs without creating a tangled mess; fish nymphs with sinking lines; & fish nymphs effectively in all the major river water types including riffles, shallow & deep runs, flats, eddies, & bank water. Truly effective nymph fishing requires the ability to fish nymphs at all depths in all types of water. Shows you how it's done, & how to have fun doing it! 2 DVD Set 130 min.

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Alaska is the world's leading coldwater fly-fishing destination. In Alaska Rainbows, Larry Tullis shares what you need to know to enjoy a successful trip to Alaska, whether you are fishing with a guide or want to try a do-it-yourself trip. Includes: Alaska trout habits and food, techniques and tackle, fly patterns, other Alaska species, Russian rainbows, Alaskan wildlife, planning an Alaskan trip, conservation, and more. Quit procrastinating, start planning your Alaskan adventure. This book can help make it a success.

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Clear illustrations and photos show you how to tie all 290 patterns in the book which are shown in full color and large size with tying instructions adjacent to each. Best-producing North American flies, including most popular dry, nymph, wet, streamer and bucktail, steelhead, Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon, cutthroat, Alaskan, saltwater, bass, and panfish patterns. Color plates of tying materials, including fur, hackle, thread, etc. Fly pattern index. Fishing tips for most patterns. Printed on heavy, gloss paper stock. Bound for easy opening.

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