Many fly-fishermen believe that “spring creek fishing” is too highly “technical” and beyond their capabilities. They’ve heard how difficult it is to fish small flies and light leaders on a 2-weight fly line. Well, this is pure blarney. Can you read this book, then think while standing in a trout stream? If so, you will learn far more from the “difficult” fish than you've been learning through modest success when fishing to unsophisticated fish. The book is aimed at spring creek fishing, but it will prove highly useful wherever you fish for trout with artificial flies. John Mingo has fly-fished for trout in England, Austria, New Zealand, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and in more than 30 U.S. states. He has spent over 1000 days on the Montana Spring Creeks, and published several articles in Fly Fisherman magazine on the subject. When he's not fishing, his day job is as an expert on the regulation of risk in banking. He has been a Senior Advisor to the Federal Reserve Board, and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He holds a B.A. in economics from Yale, and a Ph.D., also in economics, from Brown.