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A Fly Fishermen's Guide to Catskill Coldwater Streams and Ponds: Their Histories, Their Fish and Techniques to Catch Them

By John Mordock

Mordock intimately acquaints readers with the Beaverkill, Delaware, Esopus, Neversink, Rondout, Scholarie, & Willowemod rivers, as well as with many other Catskill cold waters, their immediate surroundings, & their histories. 217 pgs.

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ISBN: 1-58776-877-1

EAN: 978-1-58776-877-4

Binding: Softcover

Publish Date: 30/06/2008

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In addition to marvelous trout fishing, the catskills provide an opportunity to wet a line where Theodore Gordon, Edward Hewitt, William Chandler, Ray Berman, Art Flick, Lee Wulff, Dan Bailey and other notable anglers developed and honed the angling and fly tying skills.

John Mordock intimately acquaints readers with the Beaverkill, Delaware, Esopus, Neversink, Rondout, Scholarie, and Willowemod rivers, as well as with many other Catskill cold waters, their immediate surroundings, and their histories. The information shared about each stream includes the unique features of its watershed, where it can be accessed, where its wild trout live. . .

Recent survey revealed that anglers from 40 states & 8 countries visit the Catskills each year, a number of out-of-area shops sell this book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
John Mordock
was born in 1938 in Cumberland, Maryland at the same time as his father started the first yacht club on Western Marylands' Deep Creek Lake, now a noted two-story fishery mentioned in John's book, Fly Fishing Two-Story Lakes and Reservoirs. John moved to Northfield, Illinois, north of Chicago, in his youth, where his father taught him to fly fish and he grew up canoeing and fishing Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin lakes and rivers. His grandfather, Charles T. Mordock, who lived two blocks west of Lake Michigan, also fly fished Mid-Western waters, as well as those in Utah when he visited his brother, William, who lived in Salt Lake City, and in California when he visited his daughter, Kay, who married James D. Adams, a lawyer who also fly fished. John's grandfather was either a frequent guest or a member of the Coleman Lake Club, the first fly fishing organization in the Mid-West, and his Uncle Jim was a member of the Golden Gate Anglers and Casters Club, and outgrowth of the San Francisco Fly Casters Club. His Uncle Jim took John and his cousins on a pack trip to fish for trout in California's High Sierra, above Yosemite Park, when John was approaching his teens. As a teenager, John also fished Northern California's Klamath River with his relatives.

The only period when John hasn't fly fished since he took up the sport was when in Hawaii surfing, snorkeling, and completing his doctoral degree in Developmental Psychology, which included courses in animal behavior. His graduate studies made him skeptical of claims unsupported by empirical data, a condition that characterizes much of the lure about fishing and which led to his book, Capturing Rogue Trout. John moved from Hawaii to Pennsylvania in 1966, where he fished in the Poconos, and then in 1969 to New York, where he fished, and continues to fish, in the Catskills and Adirondacks. In the early 1970s, John joined Trout Unlimited and the Batten Kill Flyfishers, a group of 10 anglers owning riverside property on the Batten Kill, a wild trout stream up until recently. Since 1975, John has made a summer trip to major Western rivers, with his last 10 trips to Calgary's Bow River and nearby streams.

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Weight 0.7875 lbs
Dimensions 8.4 × 5.8 × 0.7 in

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