Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting

Fishing For Dummies, UK Edition, provides you with a thorough introduction to all types of fishing - sea fishing, game fishing, and coarse fishing.

Travel from Scottish streams to shark infested seas and from the frozen tundra to tropical reefs.

Hook up with the fly-fishing guide that s a keeper Some say successful fly fishing requires supreme athleticism, a surgeon s delicate touch, and the serene spirit of a Zen master.

Hook up with the fly-fishing guide that s a keeper Some say successful fly fishing requires supreme athleticism, a surgeon s delicate touch, and the serene spirit of a Zen master.

The complete fisherman s friend The fully updated Fishing For Dummies, 3rd Edition, experienced angler and fishing writer Greg Schwipps shows that while none of us is born to angling, we can all achieve it and become great at it.

The complete fisherman s friend The fully updated Fishing For Dummies, 3rd Edition, experienced angler and fishing writer Greg Schwipps shows that while none of us is born to angling, we can all achieve it and become great at it.

Make fishing easier and more rewarding every time you pick up your rod and reel No one can promise that you will catch fish all the time.

Make fishing easier and more rewarding every time you pick up your rod and reel No one can promise that you will catch fish all the time.

Shooters Bible, for generations the most trusted source of detailed information on firearms, offers gun enthusiasts expert knowledge and advice on gun care.

Legendary Hunts II chronicles the heart of our hunting culture the accounts of everyday hunters who defied the odds to take exceptional big game trophies.

Gun Craft examines today's artisanally made guns, as well as the craftsmen who make them.

Readers will discover the most effective, most original, and most historic flies published in the 30-year history of Fly Rod & Reel magazine.

The annual Robert Traver Award honors the very best writing that implies an implicit love of fly-fishing.

The popularity of rifles designed to take big game has never been greater.

The annual Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Award features a distinguished original work of short fiction or nonfiction that embodies an implicit love of fly-fishing, respect for the sport and the natural world in which it takes place, and high literary values.

This book is a magnificently illustrated volume that will help anglers, scientists, and nature lovers to identify and appreciate North American freshwater game fish.

This authoritative guide to British-made shotguns looks at individual makers, their products, and the selling points of particular guns.

Larry Brown covers the pursuit of pheasants from A to Z, discussing appropriate shotguns, chokes and loads; ground tactics for hunters with and without dogs; trends in public land use and crop land management; recent shifts in bird populations and habits; and effective gun handling, just to mention a few.

Here at last is the definitive book on skeet shooting.

This edition of the standard textbook on its subject has been revised by Robert Churchill's biographer.

This work encompasses scientific data about our largest game bird including; food requirements and habitat, habits and enemies, forest management and winter feeding and the application of such knowledge to successful hunting.

Every trout fisherman will find The Lure and Lore of Trout Fishing a most valuable addition to his angling library.

The catching of fish, said the Sage of Chocoloskee, is but an incident in fishing.

Successful deer and elk hunting goes far beyond luck, it is dependent for the most part upon knowledge and procedure.

Joe Brooks takes the reader with him as he fishes the finest places in the world.

Master story teller Charlie Elliott says it perfectly in this book for all fishermen: ';Whether you are a fresh water Walton or the owner of a yacht, plowing the depths beyond the sight of land for a long-billed monster of the sea, you are seeking out the quiet aquatic spaces of the earth for a reason more compelling than to satisfy your stomach juices.

Eugene Burns worked tirelessly and meticulously to research and understand the fundamentals of fly fishing.

First published in 1901 at the height of Grinnell's career, the work of a man who both relished the thrill of the hunt yet cherished wildlife and natural lands.

Noted commercial tier Rich Strolis shares his most effective patterns as well as the inspiration behind them to help anglers develop their own flies.

A guide to essential tackle, techniques, and strategy for the world's top saltwater species, on both conventional tackle and fly.

If you're looking to spend some time chasing one of the Atlantic's most popular sport fish, this book can help make it time well spent.

This hands-on book documents 34 fly patterns in full-color, with step-by-step photographs and detailed text on what Royce Dam knows besthandling and preparing materials.

Detailed hatch charts, color photos of each insect, and recipes and photos of the author's recommended fly patterns for each hatch.

43 American fly-tying masters, including Mary Orvis Marbury, Thaddeus Norris, and Theodore Gordon.

The first comprehensive look at fly fishing across the Great Lakes.

Trout eat a large variety of food items and diets and feeding behaviors change over time.

Step by step tying instructions and explanations of how the author designed 14 winning saltwater flies.

In ';Point!

The American Deer Hunter is the result of a great amount of experience in hunting with an extraordinary degree of success.

';A heart shot is what every big game hunter hopes for,' Editor Mary Zeiss Stange explains in the introduction to Heart Shots, ';that perfect shot placement, whether of bullet or arrow, which ensures a quick, humane kill.

Elegant and graceful, Spey flies originated on the River Spey in northeastern Scotland and are well over 150 years old.

Fly fishing has a rich heritage of "e;founding flies"e; that revolutionized the sport, yet many of these classic flies have fallen out of use.

Learn the mysteries of the Carrie Stevens method of making Rangeley-style streamers-one of the most enduring, effective, and beautiful baitfish imitations for catching trout.