This may not be the book for everyone; only
if you happen to fish for trout, get to travel a bit, or are just plain nosey. It astounds
me how any one person could collect so much information about everything going
on in a state, let alone forty-six of them (including Hawaii). Mr. Williams has pulled
out all the stops to provide trout fishers with a sourcebook that has it all.
Here you will find a directory with a monstrous
collection of well-organized addresses and phone numbers for manufacturers
of trout fishing equipment, accessories, publications, and all things trout. All
government-related agencies are listed, including national and state forests, fish
and game departments, Canadian agencies and organizations, and much more.
The author covers major and minor trout stream
systems as well as lakes in excellent fashion. Where a lake or stream is of
particular note Williams gives a detailed report that examines the best times
to go, access points, regulations, fly patterns, available maps, and
recommended techniques.
Four-hundred and eighty-eight fact-filled well
composed pages of excellent information of interest and value to the trout
fisherman. It is filling a long empty place in my library, and will be referred
to often for many years.
The book covers little found (but important)
items like, how much are the license fees for a given state? And, yes he lists
both the resident and non-resident amounts. The phone number for the state
licensing agencies? Of course. And these are just a sampling of the contents.
Like I said, this may not be the book for
everyone; but, if you have read this far... ~JC
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