Covers all popular trout foods--mayflies, caddis, stoneflies, midges Startling, spectacular photos of the bugs up close Bugwater is that soggy place inhabited by creepy, crawly, hopping, flying, wriggling creatures we call, if imprecisely, bugs. Organized around the seasons, BugWater follows the bugs and the trout through their life cycles from spring through winter. Thomason's stunningly striking photos and fascinating narratives show off the bugs up close, in amazing detail. With the author's insights as both a scientist and fly fisher and his expertise as a photographer, this book delivers solid content all fly fisher's can learn from.
BUGWATERArlen Thomason$39.95 US | $52.95 CAN, HC, 224 pages, 337 color photos, 7 b/w illustrations, 8 1 2 x 11, 978-0-8117-0505-9, WorldJANUARY 2010 | Stackpole Books
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The unique ancestry and Life history of the mayfly |
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March brown mayflies and the anatomy of hatch |
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Epic hatches and mating swarms of grannom caddisfiles |
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PMDs, Perlodids, and the Next Wave |
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Mid-spring Hatches of mayflies, small stoneflies, and caddisflies |
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McKenzie Green Is the Thing in Late |
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The big green great gray spotted sedge |
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Pale Evening Duns and the Clinger Tribes |
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Clinger-type mayflies of the family Heptageniidae |
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Blood Bonds, Drakes, and a Drenching |
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Green drakes, lesser green drakes, and a father/son outing |
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Burrowing mayflies and the Hex hatch |
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Where Waters slow or Don't Flow |
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Slow and still-water trout prey |
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An investigation into the causes of the late summer trout-feeding slump |
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The strange case of shortwing stoneflies and the origins of flight |
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The large swimmer mayflies crawl out of the water to hatch |
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The big October caddis tempts even the largest trout |
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For those willing to brave the cold, blue-winged olives and other insects are still hatching |
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A Fish-Eye View of Insects and Flies |
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Fish vision and slant tanks |
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With a doctorate in biochemistry, Arlen Thomason built a career as a molecular biologist in biomedical research. Arlen provided photographs for Jeff Morgan's book Productive Trout Flies for Unorthodox Prey: The Oddballs, and his photos have appeared in fly-fishing magazines and web sites. He lives in Walterville along Oregon's McKenzie River.
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