A new updated version of Trout Unlimited’s Guide to America’s 100 Best Trout Streams is now in distribution. On Saturday November 16, the author John Ross will be holding a book signing at Little River Outfitters. Booking signing hours will be 10:00am – 2:00pm. John has been gracious enough to let the Chapter sell the books at the event with all profits going to the Little River Chapter! This is a great opportunity to meet John, buy a great book and support our local Chapter! And don’t forget Christmas is just around the corner!
John’s bio
John Ross is a freelance outdoor writer/photographer whose work appears regularly in Sporting Classics. In addition, he is a former chair of the Virginia/Council of Trout Unlimited.
Ross is the author of a series of outdoor travel books: Sports Afield Guide to North America’s Greatest Fishing Lodge (w/Katie Anders),North America’s Greatest Big Game Lodges and Outfitters (w/Jay Cassell), North America’s Greatest Bird Hunting Lodges and Preserves, Great Water: Great Fish – the Worldwide Guide to Fly Fishing, and the TU Guide to America’s 100 Best Trout Streams, which won the 1999 National Outdoor Book Award. His second edition of the TU Guide was released by Lyons Press in 2005, and the third edition is due out in the spring of 2013.
His newest book, Rivers of Restoration, (Skyhorse Publishing, 2008) is an eclectic tour of 21 watersheds – from the Kennebec in Maine, the Guadalupe in Texas, and the Nushagak in Alaska – where TU has made a difference during its first 50 years.
Ross lives in Abingdon, Va. with his Boykin spaniel Hetty and a number of fly rods he used to use regularly before he took up writing.
Be safe,
Mike
