Scott Sanchez writes a down to earth classic with Charlie Brooks, Johnny Boyd, George Grant, Jack Dennis, Mike Lawson, Craig Mathews, Shane Stalcup, and more.
Scott Sanchez is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet and he’s a great member of the fly-fishing community. He’s also a father and husband and he’s leading the push to put as many young people on the water as possible. What does all that mean? He’s a great ambassador for our sport.
He’s also an entertaining writer and a talented photographer. And he’s credited with tying some of the most effective fly patterns for the northern Rockies, creations at the vice based on his forays from a home base in Jackson, Wyoming. He’s an old hand on Flat Creek, the Snake River, all of Yellowstone Park, Montana’s Madison and Yellowstone rivers, and all the other tributary streams that dump into the big waters around Jackson. He created the Double Bunny, which was so effective it was actually banned from the Jackson Hole One Fly Contest after destroying the competition for a couple straight years.
What Sanchez doesn’t possess is an ego. And I think that’s what makes his new book, The Never Ending Stream, A Tribute to Fly-Tying Form and Function (Pruett, $34.95), such a great read.
Don’t get lost in the title. I think it sounds too scientific for what this book is, profiles of the interesting western fly-tyers, modern and historic. Sanchez details, in a very interesting way, the lives of these tyers and how he met them. There’s fishing talk, there’s bar talk and there’s lots of bug talk. You can’t read this book and not head to the stream without new ideas on trout forage. Want to know a Baetis cripple conversation between Sanchez and Jay Buchner went in the Shilo Inn Bar? Want to know why George Grant lashed pins to the sides of his flies? Want to know why Sanchez included Franz B. Pott in the book? All those answers are in the book. Regarding the Pott reference, Sanchez writes, How can you tell where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?
Sanchez knows where his fly-tying skills and current prowess came from and in The Never Ending Stream he pays homage to the guys who took time to share their knowledge with an interested kid. Today, we can share in Sanchez’ ongoing excitement and his commitment to the future of fly fishing. Own this book: go to http://pruettpublishing.com/