Montana (Flyfishing Adventures)
If you look in any Montana-based, big-box store, or the ever-present Town Pump gas station, you will find a multitude of Montana flyfishing guide books. So, for Wilderness Adventures Press to publish another one, seems perhaps, absurd. However, if you are familiar with John Holt's writing and adventures (solitude and spirits, not down comforters and cappuccinos), you know that Flyfishing Adventures Montana, is not just another how-to book, featuring the Madison, Yellowstone, and other big league rivers, and what flies to use certain times of the year. Do Sage Creek in the Pryor Mountains and the Poplar River of northeast Montana (yes, northeast) sound familiar? I doubt it. Holt's primary skill is taking the reader along on his rustic and remote routes, where it isn't the size of the fish or the brand of the fly rod you are waving that matters, but the adventure itself. Trout are not the only stars of the show either; bass, northern pike, and whitefish, all are worthy combatants for Holt.  Holt isn't just a storyteller. He also educates on the ecology, the history and the character of his beloved Montana. Yes, Flyfishing Adventures is full of fishing stories. However, they are complete stories, giving you the details of that dusty-road or that smoky campfire. --Montana Sporting Journal, Fall/Winter 2010