Counsels beginners on the fundamentals of fly fishing using illustrated guidelines that demonstrate everything from fishing ethics and safety practices to tying effective knots and casting a fly line. Original. 15,000 first printing.
An easy-to-understand, user-friendly approach to tying all of the important,basic flies you need to catch trout. Liberally illustrated with beautiful colorphotographs.
Sub-title from cover: A fully illustrated guide to the strategy, finesse, tactics and paraphernalia of fly fishing.
This fly was originally developed by Green River guide Emmett Heath, but Rocky Mountain guides soon made their own variations of the fly, and variations on it also were also the top patterns in the 1998, 1999, 2003, and 2005 One-Fly ...
A steelhead guide once told me, “With fly-fishing gear, you probably have only a couple of feet of drift on each cast when the fly is at the proper spot—when it's quartering downstream.” At any other point in its drift, ...
This unique book teaches fly fishers enough entomology to be successful, and instead of focusing on insect identification, it stresses learning how to approach trout, how to find where they feed, and how to present the fly so it is accepted ...
With detailed chapters exploring the history of and variations on each fly, interviews with fly originators, and step-by-step tying “recipes” and instructions, this is the perfect reference book for fly tiers of all abilities.
Marine researcher Aaron Adams shares his knowledge about sea grass, mangroves, salt marshes, oyster bars, shorelines, beaches, sand flats, and coral reefs from the Caribbean to the Carolinas, the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida coast, to give ...
Flies for bass, panfish, and pike should include both big poppers (lower left) sinking flies with lots of action ... Although saltwater fish have been taken on flies for over a hundred years, this field of fly fishing is still wide open ...
This book examines the stillwater fly fisher's kit bag, expectations, and offers an introduction to the diverse stillwater food sources.
The perfect marriage of human skill and dexterity to the cork and graphite of today's fly rods takes a good bit of work, and this is the how-to book that gets you around common mistakes and bad moves so that you can develop the muscle ...