• Innovative techniques and gear to help you see the fish better• Fishing beaches, rips, flats, tidal ponds, shallow water and how the weather influences sight fishing• Rigging the boat plus the flies and lures to useSight-Fishing the Flats and Beyond offers effective sight-fishing tactics for a variety of species, including striped bass, bluefish, spotted seatrout, snook, permit, bonefish, and barracuda.
Any angler who has ever been out-fished by a beginner with a twig and some twine or questioned whether bass are smarter than he is will be in good company here.
Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, ';America's best fishing writer' (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of ';legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community, culture, the natural world, and the seasons of life' (Kirkus Reviews).
When Leigh Perkins bought the Orvis Company in 1965, the fly-fishing and bird-hunting outfitter was a sleepy business with annual sales that had leveled off at $500,000.
In Casting Forward, naturalist, educator, and writer Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a yearlong journey fly fishing all of the major rivers of the Texas Hill Country.
This fine little guidebook to the best fishing in Yellowstone Park discusses aquatic and terrestrial insect emergences and activity periods, fly patterns to imitate these insects, and effective fishing techniques.
For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among lifes most pleasurable activities.
Besides being one of our greatest presidents, Roosevelt stands alone as a conservationist, a visionary when it came to the protection and preservation of Americas natural resources, and an author.
The essential Orvis primer on fly-fishing for Muskies, addressing every requirement of the sport and providing an excellent foundation for years of pleasurable fishing.
When angler and author Stephen Sautner bought a streamside cabin and some land in the heart of fly fishing country in the Catskill Mountains, he thought he had finally reached angling nirvana and would be able to fish whenever he felt like it.
In Fly Fishing the Yucatan, Rod Hamilton offers nitty gritty specifics for the angler, including details such as exactly what rods, lines, reels and flies are must-haves, a battle plan for walking a flat and a course in presenting to and successfully plucking out fish in the most complex situations.
The inimitable author of the hugely popular Crosscurrents and River Music, whom Kirkus called "e;one of the finest nature writers in print,"e; comes back with a third hilarious and observant opus on the nature of knavery in the sport of fly fishing.
Now for the first time in ten years, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide appears in a revised edition that solidifies its place as the flagship title of the Orvis brand.
The American Angler Guide to Fly Fishing For Trout provides beginning and intermediate anglers with everything they need to know in order to successfully fly fish for the most popular quarry in America.
Bass and panfish flies tend to be relatively easy to tie, and Fly Tyer's Guide to Essential Trout Flies will take advantage of this near-universal appeal.
As warmwater fly fishing grows in popularity, target species such as bass (large- and smallmouth), sunfish, perch, and even carp demand increasingly sophisticated techniques from the modern fly fisherman.
Rivers of Sand is an exploration of the unique techniques needed to fish the waters of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, and a discussion of (and paean to) the region itself.
The inaugural title in an upcoming series of species-specific tying manuals produced in coordination with Fly Tyer magazine, Fly Tyer's Guide to Tying Essential Trout Flies provides the beginning and intermediate fly fisher with everything he or she needs to know in order to successfully tie the most successful, tried and true trout patterns.
A history of hunting and fishing through excerpted documents and as ';narrated' by Gray's Sporting Journal columnist Will Ryan, the first book of its kind.
THE ORVIS ULTIMATE BOOK OF FLY FISHING is a grand tour of the world of fly-fishing strategies and techniques, from Orvis's world-famous team of experts and advisors.
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself.