In between tying flies and filling orders this past month I’ve been busily working on revising and rewriting Striper Strategies, which has been out of print now for almost a year. It’s been over ten years since the first printing and, judging from many readers’ requests, it’s time to bring it back.
Although the first edition was a fairly amateurish effort as far as production values go–with the pages folded and stapled together and somewhat murky photographs–it received a lot of good reviews from the flyfishing press and from readers. This time around I’m working hard to make it an even better book, with the added advantage of being ten years farther along on the road to understanding stripers. I’ve been re-writing much of it, including more (and better) photos as well as an expanded section on fly design and fly choices–and other topics. And no longer will it be stapled and folded and put together with glue and paste but will be paper-bound with an attractive color cover–maybe the same one as the old but this time in color (people seem to love that photo of me on my giraffed). I’m hoping to have the book ready in time for the coming season. Stay tuned.