THE ORVIS STREAMSIDE GUIDE TO TROUT FOODS AND THEIR IMITATIONS. By Tom Rosenbauer.

2000 1st edition. 12mo (108 x 165mm). Ppviii,164. Colour photographs by the author, Ross Purnell and Ted Fauceglia, b/w illustrations by Rod Walinchus. Pictorial laminated boards - issued without a dust-wrapper.

A useful, if American, pocket guide to trout foods and the flies with which to imitate them". There are pocket guides to specific types of insects and complicated, detailed volumes on all aquatic insects. This book fills a void - a pocket guide to all types of common trout foods and how to imitate them. ...The many color photographs and detailed diagrams will help identify what's hatching or living under rocks on the stream bottom". Chapters include:- How trout feed; A brief history of aquatic insects; A quick guide to insect identification; How do you tell what they're taking?; Mayflies; Caddisflies; Stoneflies; Midges; Other aquatic insects; Terrestrial insects; Crustaceans; Other trout foods.