Most anglers are intimidated by moving water; they don't know where to find fish or how to catch them. The purpose of this book is to improve your river-fishing skills.

The book focuses on warmwater rivers and streams. Compared to trout streams, these waters have been forgotten by the outdoor press, even though they make up a much greater percentage of North America's total stream mileage.

In the first part of the book, Understanding Rivers and Streams, we'll show you how current speed, water temperature, cover and food determine where the fish will be in any river or stream. We'll also explain how changing water levels affect fish location. Without this knowledge, finding fish woul be strictly guesswork.

It would be impossible to show you exactly where to find fish and how to catch them in every conceivable type of warmwater stream, so we've organized the second part of the bokk, Fishing Rivers and Streams, into a series of case studies that represent most of the river-fishing situations anglers are likely to encounter.

Each case study gives you all necessary information for fishing a river of that type, from equipment needed to the exact techniques and lures used for each species of gamefish. Detailed maps will show you the type of habitat where every important species is liely to be found in each season. You'll even learn the tricks that help local experts catch fishg when nobody else can.

Other case studes may also give you some ideas for fishing your favorite streams. A smallmouth bass method used on a midwestern mainstem river, for instance, will probably work equally well on a western corridor river.

Warm water rivers and streams are the last frontier of freshwater fishing. This book will help you take advantage of the phenomenal fishing opportunity that these waters have to offer.