A Passion for Steelhead

Plus a comprehensive look at rigs and tactics

A Passion for Steelhead By Dec Hogan (Wild River Press: 2007; 425-486-3638; www.wildriverpress.com) 319 pp.; hardcover; $59.95 Not that steelhead have lacked quality attention, all in all, given the works of Roderick Haig-Brown, Russ Chatham, Steve Raymond, and others. But by comparison to salmonids for which folke have fly-fished much longer-trouts, salmons and chars of Europe and the Eastern United States-the Pacific Coast's most fabled species has hardly received fair due. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.