Pike on the Fly: The Flyfishing Guide to Northerns, Tigers, and Muskies (Spring Creek Pr Bk)
There's a plethora of fly fishing books on the market, but it's refreshing to see one that's not about trout. Fly fishing for pike and their cousins the muskie, the pickerel, and the tiger muskie is one of the sport's great challenges, yet one few have taken up. For the thought of having the top predator in a given body of water (a trout--hallowed quarry of most fly fishing--is just a quick snack for most pike and muskie) chomp a light fly tied to a whippy fly rod can make an angler's knees go weak. Not as well illustrated as one might like--the drawings are rather barren, the photos are mostly of the look-at-me-I-got-a-big-fish variety, and the flies used to tempt the toothy critters should be in color--the text solidly explains the tactics and techniques used to capture these water-wolves. Given that this may be the first and only book on its subject, plan on it for your fishing shelf, if only to please the handful of anglers willing to try this different form of angling.Jon Kartmam