Book description
An excerpt from Fly Fishing Virginia. From small creeks to large rivers
to coastal inlets and bays, Beau Beasley shows you where to fly fish in
Virginia. Detailed maps, photographs, and Beasley's wisdom guide you
through the many waters in the Old Dominion. Known hatches or baitfish,
equipment to use, and flies to choose. Use this book to plan your next
trip and then take it along with you! Beau Beasley is just as likely
to chase smallies on the New River as he is to track brook trout in the
cold mountain streams of the Old Dominion. His father introduced him to
farm pond fishing as a child, but he's equally happy to pursue stripers
in the Chesapeake Bay or follow the early spring shad migrations across
Virginia, fly rod in hand. Beau began writing in the mid 1990s and has
been published in Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, American Angler,
Mid-Atlantic Fly Fishing Guide, Virginia Wildlife, Flyfisher, Fly Tyer,
Chesapeake Angler, Richmond Magazine, Virginia Living, and Virginia
Sportsman. He is a contributing editor for Fly Fish America and the
Mid-Atlantic field editor for Eastern Fly Fishing. In addition to
writing, Beau is the director of the annual Virginia Fly Fishing
Festival and is a 25-year veteran career captain with Fairfax County
Fire and Rescue Department assigned to Engine Company 427. His first
book, Fly Fishing Virginia: A No Nonsense Guide to Top Waters, was
released in May 2007 and is in bookstores throughout the country. He
lives with his wife and children in Warrenton, Virginia. King Montgomery
is an outdoors & travel writer and photographer, a retired US Army
officer, and has a B. S. degree in fisheries biology. He is a
Contributing Editor and Mid-Atlantic Regional Editor for Fly Fish
America magazine. King is the Outdoors Editor of PressBox Sports
Newspaper (Baltimore, MD), and is a contributor to Fly Fisherman,
Virginia Wildlife, American Angler, Fly Tyer, Blue Ridge Country, Gaff,
New Jersey Angler, Chesapeake Angler Magazine, Eastern Fly Fishing,
Southwest Fly Fishing, Fly Rod & Reel, Washingtonian, Virginia
Sportsman, and other national and regional publications and Internet
sites.
