"STEELHEAD" is a tribute to this magnificient fish and to steelheaders throughout the Pacific Northwest who have worked to protect steelhead and the rivers they inhabit. Barry Thornton offers readers tips on both fly fishing and angling for steelhead, as well as providing steelhead management principles. Full of helpful hints and secrets for success, this descriptive and detailed book hooks its readers and takes them down to the riverbank to feel the power of this extraordinary fish. Barry Thornton's treatise on the greatest freshwater game fish in North America is sure to cause steelhead fever. "Barry Thornton is one of B.C.'s best known and respected fishing authors and outdoor writers. He has been awarded the Outdoor Writers of Canada 'Award of Merit', The Northwest Outdoor Writers Association 'Excellence in Craft' awards and the Roderick Haig-Brown Memorial Award. He has been involved with fishing and the outdoors for most of his life, as a professional educator, an environmental activist, and as an outdoors writer and photographer. Founding chairman and three times President of the Steelhead Society of B.C., he is a devoted and knowledgeable angler who has much to share with his fellow fishermen."