Jim has been active as an outdoor writer for over 40 years. He is the author of five books on fly fishing and frequently contributes to numerous outdoor magazines, including
Fly Fisherman
Fly Fusion
Gray's Sporting Journal
Outdoor Canada
Pheasants Forever Journal
Pointing Dog Journal,
Shooting Sportsman
Strung
The Alberta Fishing Guide
and more.
Jim McLennan
Jim McLennan
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Trout Tracks
Fly-Fishing Western Trout Streams
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Trout Tracks - Essays on Fly Fishing
Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. His poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea.
Fly fishing is considered to be perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees - for the most part. In Trout Tracks are pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, stories of quiet successes and louder failures, in sum revealing the soul of “the quiet sport.”
You won’t learn to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you’ve fly fished, or if you want to, you’ll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places.
Trout Tracks books are available.
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Fly-Fishing Western Trout Streams​
Fly-Fishing Western Trout Streams​
An Essential Book for all fly fishers wanting to learn more about fishing western North America
Forward by the late Leigh Perkins,
CEO of Orvis Company
Contents:
1. Western Trout
2. Western Trout Streams
3. Fly Tackle for the West
4. Western Casting and Line Control
5. Reading Western Streams
6. Western Methods for the Wading Angler
7. Western Methods for the Driftboat Angler
8. Western Trout Stream Seasons
9. Western Hatches and Other Trout Food
10. Favourite Western Fly Patterns
11. Leftovers
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Trout Streams of Alberta
Trout Streams of Alberta
Jim's best-selling book and a Canadian best seller,
Trout Streams of Alberta is a winner of the
Andy Russell Nature Writing Award.
Contains information on Alberta trout species,
trout habitat and requirements and fly patterns.There is a chapter
on each watershed in Alberta, highlighting the history,
fish, fishing methods, and access.
Includes colour photos and a hatch chart for each watershed.
Second printing now Out of Print
Water Marks
Thirty Years of Fly-Fishing Insight
Water Marks is a collection Jim's
best writing between1981 and 2006.
Drawn from his magazine work in that period, there are essays on
the Where, Why, How, and Who of fly fishing.
Filled with colour photographs by Jim and Lynda McLennan
Out of Print
Out of Print Books
Out of Print Books
Blue Ribbon Bow (Lone Pine, 1987)
Water Marks ( Fusion Books)
Trout Streams of Alberta
You might find copies online, at used bookstores
or at your nearest library.