Covers all major regions, including the Catskills and Adirondacks - Follow-up to Pocketguide to Pennsylvania Hatches set in New York, featuring New York's most outstanding fly patterns - Detailed hatch charts, color photos of each insect, and recipes and photos of the author's recommended fly patterns for each hatch - Common and Latin names for each insect, size range (hook and natural), descriptions of all life stages of the insect, emergence time and date, and tactics for fishing - Over 55 insects and 94 fly patterns Paul Weamer is a Fly Fisherman magazine contributing editor and the author or co-author of several fly fishing books.  He is a licensed Montana fishing guide, former New York State licensed fishing guide, and the owner of Weamer Fly Fishing, LLC.  Paul has managed fly shops and guide services in New York, Pennsylvania, and Montana and has been a production fly tier as well as a contract fly designer for Montana Fly Company.  He is also the designer of the Daiichi Hook model #1230, Weamer's Mayfly Hook Paul is one of the founders of the Friends of the Upper Delaware River (FUDR) and the 2009 winner of FUDR's Upper Delaware "One Bug" tournament. He received the 2011 Upper Delaware Council's Recreation Award for his book, The Fly Fishing Guide to the Upper Delaware River.  Paul's book, The Bug Book, was featured as Amazon's third highest customer-rated fly fishing book by wideopenspaces.com.  Paul is an accomplished photographer, specializing in aquatic insect macro photography and his photos have appeared in many books and magazine articles. Paul, his wife Ruthann, and their English Mastiff Olive live in Paradise Valley, Montana, where Paul writes and guides fly anglers in the legendary trout waters that flow through Yellowstone National Park and Southwestern Montana. Reach Paul through his website: weamerflyfishing.com and email: weamerflyfishing@gmail.com