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Due North of Montana: A Guide to Flyfishing in Alberta
Chris Dawson

Spring Creek Press, 1996 - 192 pages

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One-stop guide to Southern Alberta flyfihing

A compehensive coverage of best streams, best flies, best times to fish in Southern Alberta. The kind of book you wish nobody would read because it reveals too much of a good thing!


Good information on streams; odd relationships with people

The first reviewer got it right on the excellent information at hand in this book. Chris Dawson gives you practically everything you need to know about Alberta's major rivers, including how precisely to get there, which flies work best, and where to find a good guide. I live abroad and rarely get home to Alberta, but I occasionally open this book to remind myself of some of the glorious streams I've fished and of some of the fine rivers I've yet to wade through. Though Dawson possesses a good narrative gift, I wonder sometimes at his occasional criticism of other fishermen. At one point in the book, Dawson questions the sanity of a guy who likes to photograph his favourite trout streams from an airplane. Maybe it is an odd avocation, but when you come to think of it, so is fly fishing itself: many of us spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on equipment, strain our eyes all winter long attaching fur and feathers to hooks, and manage to enter the water only a handful of times a season -- just to feel the primal tug on the line; when we're actually successful at landing our little fish, many of us forget the hunter/gatherer instinct and let the creature swim away! It is all rather peculiar stuff, and I have yet to adequately rationalize it to myself. In comparison to most fly-fishermen, myself included, Dawson's "Map Man" doesn't seem all that odd to me. The sections that rankle add up to no more than a few pages of the entire book. Unfortunately for Chris Dawson, I see that this book's amazon sales don't compare with Grisham's or Oprah's picks, but that's good news for me; I'll be fishing in Canada this summer, and I hope more people will be at home reading potboilers than driving the backroads of Alberta, Dawson's book on the passenger seat, looking for all the great places to hook a trout.


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The best source of info. on fly-fishing in So. Alberta

Simply the best source of information on fly-fishing in Southern Alberta. This book takes the reader to each stream to learn it's charms and secrets.






Does not cover enough of the smaller rivers and creeks.

Does not cover enough of the smaller creeks and rivers in the area. Also, covers a river in BC. Needs more detail info. I spent two weeks up there recently and had fair success on many streams not covered in the book.


Great guide for first timers

This book provide all the information you need to plan a trip to this part of Alberta/BC. Great information and advice!



Are you tired of flyfishing those brand-name U.S. trout streams that promise big fish but produce mostly big crowds? Then a trip to Alberta is the perfect solution, and "Due North of Montana" is the guidebook you?ll need.

A few hours? drive from some of the most famous trout waters in the lower forty-eight will take you to rivers you?ve probably never heard of before?rivers like the North Raven, where you?ll find big browns rising in a spring creek; or the Elk River, touted as perhaps the best westslope cutthroat stream in North America.

Eleven of Alberta?s best southern and central trout streams are covered in this book, from the metropolitan Bow to the precipitous gorge of the Highwood River. Alberta native Chris Dawson tells you where to fish, when to go, and what flies to use. Maps help you locate the rivers and their access points. With "Due North of Montana" you can make your own discoveries in waters that are as uncrowded as America?s rivers twenty years ago.


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