Chasing the lightning-fast bonefish across the south Pacific, Florida, and the Caribbean is for many anglers a near obsession, and this is the handbook to such fly-fishing adventure.
Many fishermen will acknowledge that the brown trout (Salmo trutta) and the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are the world's most intriguing, beautiful and noble fish.
The burgeoning popularity of double guns (both over/unders and side-by-sides) in the United States is no secret, and few gunmakers know more about them than Steven Dodd Hughes, who has been building, repairing, and customizing these firearms for three decades.
"e;The Book of the Red Deer and Empire Big Game"e; contains a collection of articles written by various authors in the subject of deerstalking in England and Scotland.
Practical Taxidermy - A Manual of Instruction To The Amateur In Collecting, Preserving, And Setting up Natural History Specimens of All Kinds This comprehensive manual on early taxidermy was published in London in 1884, and is much sought after by modern taxidermists for its wealth of detail and historical content.
This antiquarian text contains a complete guide to fox hunting, with information on handling hounds, controlling the field, the nature of the fox, correct use of equipment, and much more.
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 reader swhat they need to know to fish for tropical, subtropical, and warm-water species.
"e;Guns and Game"e; is a comprehensive and timeless handbook on hunting with a gun, with chapters on everything from how to go about learning how to shoot, to breeding game, ethics, and beyond.
Fish is currently THE rockstar ingredient - prized for its healthy benefits - but there is still a lot of fear surrounding its preparation and cooking.
Timeless Bowhunting will help you:*; Choose a bow based on the merits of technical design*; Find a hunting arrow that gives optimum accuracy, trajectory, and penetration*; Shoot accurately uphill, downhill, from tree stands, and in the wind*; Choose an effective shooting style for your type of hunting*; Perfect your shooting form by eliminating common shooting flaws*; Find the best aiming method for you
Originally published in London 1905, this book was considered essential reading for anyone new to English field sports and especially to overseas visitors wishing to take part in English game shooting.
First published in 1897, just at the end of the Victorian age, this book is a glimpse into a world that few would ever see, the hunting lodges and estates of the upper echelons of British society.
Nur wenige Weidmänner widmen sich so intensiv der fast vergessenen Jagd auf Dachs, Fuchs oder Krähen, wie der Autor es in seinen "frühen" Jägerjahren getan hat.
This hands-on guide explains no-nonsense techniques on how to develop a well-balanced and well-planned food plot and deer management program that will enhance your deer hunting success tenfold.
This is a fascinating work, originally published in 1899 contains a collection of biographies and brilliantly entertaining anecdotes from the cream of the hunting elite in the United Kingdom during the Victorian period.
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.
An indispensable color-illustrated field guide to the tracks and signs of Europe's animals and birdsThis beautifully illustrated field guide enables you to easily identify the tracks and signs left by a wide variety of mammal and bird species found in Britain and Europe, covering behaviors ranging from hunting, foraging, and feeding to courtship, breeding, and nesting.
Volume IFor the fly fisher seeking to catch more and bigger trout, fishing nymphs--patterns that mimic the larval stage of mayflies--can be a surefire approach.
Well over 300 freshwater fish species found in the regions rivers; lakes and dams feature in this fully revised third edition of Freshwater Fishes of Southern Africa.
Published annually for more than eighty years, the Shooter's Bible is the most comprehensive and sought-after reference guide for new firearms and their specifications, as well as for thousands of guns that have been in production and are currently on the market.
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.
For fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk, a lyrical memoir and ';engaging, endearing, deeply felt' (David Coggins) ode to the art of fly fishing and how it can shape a lifeby renowned female angler and conservationist Marina Gibson.