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Colorado Guide Flies: Patterns, Rigs, & Advice from the State's Best Anglers & Guides
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Colorado Guide Flies: Patterns, Rigs, & Advice from the State's Best Anglers & Guides
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  • Colorado Guide Flies: Patterns, Rigs, & Advice from the State's Best Anglers & Guides. What if you could peer into the fly boxes of the guides who make their living helping people catch fish, day in and day out?
  • With this comprehensive guide to the best patterns for Colorado rivers and reservoirs, now you can.
  • Not only are these patterns effective for Colorado, but anglers from around the world will discover new flies for their home waters.
  • 600 patterns from the state's top guides and fly tiers
  • Complete hatch information for the state
  • Interviews with 20 of the state's top guides
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"Colorado Guide Flies: Patterns, Rigs, and Advice from the State's Best Anglers and Guides by Pat Dorsey grants the wish of any angler: to peer into the fly boxes of guides who make their living helping people catch fish." (Erin Block midcurrent.com 2015-09-07)

About the Author

 Pat Dorsey has been a fly-fishing guide for twenty years and is Southwest Field Editor for Fly Fisherman. Author of Colorado Guide Flies (978-1-934753-33-0), Fly Fishing Tailwaters (978-0-8117-0512-7), and Tying and Fishing Tailwater Flies (978-0-8117-0722-0), Pat travels the country speaking to local, Trout Unlimited, and Federation of Fly Fishers clubs and conducts seminars at trade shows throughout the country. He lives in Parker, Colorado.

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