What a Trout Sees : A Fly-Fishing Guide to Life Underwater

Do trout sleep? And if so, when? And how does that affect their feeding patterns? Does a rising or falling barometer affect feeding habits? How does refraction influence a fish’s approach to a surface fly, human shadow, or false cast? How much do fish need to eat, under what conditions will they grow the largest? For the first time, an accessible, well-written title shows us what the world is like under the water, from the fish’s perspective. Geoff Mueller, acclaimed senior editor with The Drake magazine, travels throughout some of the best trout habitat in America, talking with the experts and donning swim fins and mask to meet trout on their own turf. With What a Trout Sees , curious anglers interested in taking their skill levels up a notch or two will finally have all the information they need. Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses--New York's "master builder"--Brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to pop culture, technology to urban planning, and civil rights to violent crime. In an epic narrative, Tomorrow-Land shows the astonishing pivots taken by New York City, America, and the world during the fair. It fetched Disney's empire from California and Michelangelo's La Pieta from Europe and displayed flickers of innovation from Ford, GM, and NASA--from undersea and outer-space colonies to personal computers. It housed the controversial work of Warhol (until Governor Rockefeller had it removed) and lured Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Meanwhile, the fair--and its house band, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians--sat in the musical shadows of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, who changed rock and roll right there in Queens. And as southern civil rights efforts turned deadly, and violent protests also occurred in and around the fair, Harlem-based Malcolm X predicted a frightening future of inner-city racial conflict. World's Fairs have always been collisions of eras, cultures, nations, technologies, ideas, and art. But the trippy, turbulent, Technicolor, Disney, corporate, and often misguided 1964/65 fair was truly exceptional "Do trout snooze? If so, when do they do it? Does sleeping affect how they feed? And what about the barometer--does its rising or falling impact feeding patterns? How much do fish need to eat, and under what conditions will they grow the largest? Geoff Mueller, acclaimed senior editor with The Drake Magazine, travels to some of the best trout habitat in America, talking with the experts, donning swim fins and mask to meet trout on their own turf. This authoritative, plain-speaking book shows us, for the first time, what the world is like under the water, from the fish's point of view. For curious anglers interested in taking their skill levels up a notch or two, What a trout sees offers the knowledge they need to meet trout on equal terms."--Provided by publisher There are ten thousand guide books on the market that tell you how to approach the fish from the bank or boat, but there is no accessible, mainstream title that shows you what the world is like under the water, from the fishs perspective. With Trouts Eye View, the curious fisherman interested in taking his or her skill level up a notch or two will finally have all the information he needs. A new kind of general beginners guide, this title will introduce fishermen to the fish themselves. Here is what youre trying to catch, and this is how best to catch it. In a market packed to the cold gills with general how-to introductions, this will be an energetically fresh spin. Explores how the New York World's Fair embodied the cultural and political changes in New York, the United States, and the world during the decade of the 1960s Front Cover 1 Copyright 4 Table of Contents 5 Body 9 Index 211 Back Cover 219 Spine 221