| Introduction | p. xi |
| Getting Ready | p. 1 |
| Gearing Up | p. 3 |
| Creeks and small streams | |
| Average trout streams | |
| Trout rivers | |
| Freestone creeks, streams, and rivers | |
| Spring creeks | |
| Tailwaters | |
| Lakes | |
| Ponds | |
| Knots | |
| Casting and Control | p. 31 |
| Basic fly cast | |
| Roll cast | |
| Sidearm cast | |
| Off-shoulder cast | |
| Off-handed cast | |
| Right and left curve casts | |
| Oval or Belgian cast | |
| Line control on the water | |
| Setting the hook | |
| Fly Selection | p. 61 |
| Searching-fly box | |
| Dry-fly box | |
| Emerger box | |
| Nymph box | |
| Wet fly and streamer box | |
| Moving Water | p. 69 |
| Reading Water, Finding Trout | p. 71 |
| Spotting fish | |
| Reading likely lies | |
| Rigs and Methods for Dry Flies and Emergers | p. 77 |
| Rig: Standard dry fly | |
| Methods: Standard upstream | |
| Covering the water | |
| Boulder lies | |
| Bank water | |
| Current seams | |
| Riffle corners | |
| Fishing an eddy | |
| Small-stream pool | |
| Pocket water | |
| Dapping | |
| Cross-stream reach cast | |
| Cross-stream wiggle cast | |
| Downstream wiggle cast | |
| Parachute cast or drop and draw | |
| Upstream draw | |
| Pile cast | |
| The sudden inch | |
| Pop on nose or sound cast | |
| Small dry fly or emerger with indicator | |
| Dry fly from moving boat | |
| Rigs and Methods for Nymphs in Moving Water | p. 123 |
| Rig: Unencumbered nymph | |
| Methods: Standard nymph swing | |
| Upstream to feeding fish | |
| Tuck cast | |
| Lift and drop | |
| Sawyer induced take | |
| Plop cast | |
| Countdown and slow retrieve | |
| Rig: Fothergill outrigger | |
| Method: High-sticking | |
| Rig: Nymph and indicator without weight | |
| Methods: Casting to feeding trout | |
| Upstream along banks and to current seams | |
| Upstream in creeks and small streams | |
| Upstream in stairstepped benches | |
| Nymphing visible, bottom-holding trout | |
| Rig: Standard nymph, indicator, and split shot | |
| Methods: Borger shotgun | |
| Covering boulder lies | |
| Covering a ledge or trench | |
| High-sticking pocket water | |
| Nymphing trout winking along the bottom | |
| Nymphing a riffle corner | |
| Rig: Hinged nymph and indicator | |
| Methods: Nymphing the bottom zone | |
| Nymphing suspended trout | |
| Nymphing from a moving boat | |
| Rig: Two indicators, Pit River style | |
| Method: High-sticking short pockets and runs | |
| Rig: Wet-tip/belly/head or full-sink line | |
| Methods: Swinging nymphs deep | |
| Countdown and handtwist in deep pools | |
| Strip tease | |
| Brooks method | |
| Pot-shooting | |
| Rigs and Methods for Wet Flies in Moving Water | p. 197 |
| Rig: Floating line and standard leader | |
| Methods: Traditional across-and-down swing | |
| Bergman natural drift (greased line) | |
| Leisenring lift | |
| Hidy subsurface swing | |
| Upstream soft-hackle to small pools | |
| Soft-hackling eddies | |
| Rig: Wet-tip/belly/head or full-sink line | |
| Methods: Mended middepths swing | |
| Up-and-across stream cast; bottom swing | |
| Rigs and Methods for Streamers in Moving Water | p. 221 |
| Rig: Floating, wet-tip/belly/head, and full-sink lines | |
| Methods: Standard and staccato streamer swing | |
| Upstream streamer | |
| High-sticking plunge pools and pockets | |
| Hitting the banks | |
| Fishing a streamer from a boat | |
| Rig: Shooting head system | |
| Methods: Bouncing bottom | |
| Counting down in pools | |
| Dry Fly and Dropper | p. 243 |
| Rig: Dry fly and dropper | |
| Methods: Exploring moving water | |
| Fishing to working, feeding fish | |
| Lakes and Ponds | p. 253 |
| Tackle for stillwaters | p. 255 |
| Rods and reels | |
| Lines | |
| Leaders | |
| Boats, float tubes, and pontoon boats | |
| Fly box | |
| Reading Stillwaters | p. 261 |
| Visible fish | |
| Likely lies | |
| Annual trout movements | |
| Daily trout movements | |
| Finding fish | |
| Algal blooms | |
| Rigs and Methods for Dry Flies on Stillwaters | p. 267 |
| Rig: Floating line and standard stillwater leader | |
| Methods: Covering water | |
| Dry and/or emerger to rises | |
| Skittered dry fly | |
| Intercepting bank feeders | |
| Rigs and Methods for Sunk Flies on Stillwaters | p. 281 |
| Rig: Floating line and standard Stillwater leader | |
| Methods: Casting to rising or cruising trout | |
| Casting and stripping to the shoreline and structure | |
| Cast and countdown | |
| Nymphing bank cruisers | |
| Rig: Floating line and strike indicator | |
| Methods: Suspended nymph | |
| Wind/current drifting | |
| Rig: Clear intermediate or wet-tip line | |
| Methods: Casting and shallow retrieve | |
| Countdown and deep retrieve | |
| Trolling to explore relative shallows | |
| Rig: Full-sink or shooting head lines | |
| Methods: Casting from shore | |
| Casting from a boat | |
| Trolling | |
| Index | p. 316 |
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