Boots Allen is a third-generation fly fishing guide who for the past thirty-plus years has worked on many of the storied trout streams in the Rocky Mountain West. His enthusiasm for fishing and guiding has taken him to waters around the world, including Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina, British Columbia, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, and the Bahamas. Boots is a three time high scoring guide in the annual Jackson Hole One-Fly Contest, a high scoring angler in the East Idaho Bass on the Fly Tournament, and winner of the prestigious 2007 Carmichael-Cohen Award. He has penned articles for fly fishing and outdoor magazines and is the author of SNAKE RIVER FLY FISHING: THROUGH THE EYES OF AN… ANGLER (Amato Books, 2010), MODERN TROUT FISHING: TACTICS AND STRATEGIES FOR TODAY'S FLY FISHER (Lyons Press, 2013), and SNAKE RIVER FLIES (Graphic Arts Books, 2014).