FLY-FISHING FOR ALASKA'S ARCTIC GRAYLING: SAILFISH OF THE NORTH. By Cecilia "Pudge" Kleinkauf.

2009 1st edition. 8vo paperback (152 x 229mm). Pp183 + 1pp ad. Colour photographs throughout by Michael DeYoung, maps, good bibliography.

The author, Cecilia Kleinkauf, has been a grayling angler for thirty years, and a professional guide for twenty-three. This is an interesting, authoritative and detailed guide to fishing for grayling in Alaska, and to all aspects of the species itself, with scientific contributions by Andrew Gryska. Chapters include: Arctic grayling, the fish and its life cycle; Locating grayling; Dry-fly skills for grayling; Nymph, streamer and egg-imitation fishing for grayling; Fly-fishing equipment and flies - rods, reels, lines etc; Arctic grayling around Alaska - habitat, range and stories - Bristol Bay; Northwest Bristol Bay; The Alaska Peninsula; Tanana River, Fairbanks, Denali Highway 110; Anchorage, Matanuska Valley, Kenai Peninsula; Kuskokwim and Yukon; Alaska's Northwest and the North Slope; Prince William Sound, the Copper River, Southeast Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, the Kodiak Archipelago; Grayling fishing in North America, Asia, Mongolia and Europe; Protecting Arctic grayling; Fly patterns for grayling - dry-flies and emergers, nymphs, streamers, egg-imitations, spring smolts. Good, useful bibliography and excellent pictures. Essential reading for anybody planning a trip to Alaska and a great (and useful) read for the rest of us.