Improve your nymphing by developing a "e;playbook"e; to overcome trout defenses and employing a systematic approach to planning, rigging, and fundamental skills and techniques.
From a veteran South Florida angler comes the first fly and light tackle do-it-yourself guide to the region, focusing on fishing opportunities that don't require a boat.
Three well-known fly fishers (and friends) come together to share the solid technical know-how they've learned from years of fishing the ever-elusive trout.
Focusing on the Great Smoky Mountains--America's most-visited national park--this book is full of useful information for fly fishers curious to learn more about flies and fly patterns.
Following the model of Bob Clouser's classic Fly Fishing for Smallmouth, this book provides important information geared specifically toward Western anglers.
Top advice from a master stillwater angler and complete hatch information for lakes, ponds, and reservoirs make Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing the perfect resource for fly fishing on stillwaters.
The essential reference for fly fishing the Rocky Mountain West, Flies for the Greater Yellowstone Area compiles more than 500 fly patterns for nymphs, dry flies, emergers, and streamers.
*; Sometimes the wildest fishing happens right in your own town-or in the city you happen to be visiting*; Some of fly-fishings most gifted writers proclaim the joys and rewards of fishing urban watersShelves of books have been written about the ultimate fly-fishing experience: the trip to remote, pristine waters where fish are plentiful and wild.
A key influence in modern soft-hackle and emerger fishingInsight into the natural world combined with fly pattern theoryWilliam Stewarts writings burst upon the angling world in 1857 in a flurry of acclaim and controversy.
Useful advice from the father of nymph fishingExtraordinary observations of the trouts worldGeorge Edward MacKenzie Skues has been described not only as the father of nymph fishing but as the greatest fly fisher who ever lived.
Scouting specifics for the 40+ states that offer fall and winter turkey hunting seasonsTactics for approaching landowners and securing permission to hunt private land plus strategies for firearms, bowhunting, and hunting turkeys with dogsInsights on turkey vocalizations, calling birds, locating fall and winter roosts, and patterning flocksFor the sportsman who thrills at the booming gobble of a spring tom during mating season and wants to extend that exhilarating feeling, Steve Hickoffs Fall and Winter Turkey Hunters Handbook offers the perfect remedy.
On a good evening in June I can hear the frogs booming and croaking the instant I shut down the car in the parking lot a hundred yards from the pond in the middle of town.
This comprehensive, full-color guide to fly fishing flats covers every aspect of this specialized kind of fishing, from necessary equipment, techniques and fly patterns to dream destinations and exotic species encountered there.
A master course in finding and catching fish along the shoreline Stripers, blues, false albacore, bonito, weakfish, hickory shad One of the most respected authorities on Atlantic Coast fly fishing compiles his decades of experience in this all new, in-depth guide to species, structure, tactics, flies, and migrations.
Step-by-step color sequences for more than 100 patternsAcclaimed tier and master teacher Dick Talleur presents the fundamentals and key techniques for tying all the popular patterns, with step-by-step color photos and explicit text showing every nuance of the process.
The champion of the dry-fly ethic developed on British chalkstreams in the late 1800sNow acknowledged as the symbolic father of modern dry-fly fishing, Frederic M.
Detailed product reviews and technical specifications for 25 classic models Tips for inspecting and purchasing a used rifle Selecting the right cartridge, riflescope, and ammunition What is the perfect rifle for hunting deer?
*; Writings from one of the most original and provocative fly-fishing theorists of the twentieth century*; Important inquiries into the nature of trout and the challenges of catching them with fliesJames Mottram wrote at the height of great intellectual turmoil in the world of British fly fishing, when advocates of dry-fly fishing quarreled with their nymph-fishing counterparts over which type of fishing was not only more effective but also more appropriate on Englands famous chalkstreams.
*; Excerpts American Anglers Book, the foremost fishing reference book of its time*; Info on native fishes of North America*; Technical expertise on tackleNorris on Trout Fishing samples both the expertise and the generous warmth that made Thaddeus Norris (1811-1877) such a beloved figure in American angling.
*; Perfect gift book for anglers*; Entertaining to veterans and newcomers who fish saltwater and freshMany who catch fish and fish in a variety of foreign and problematic habitats have developed a panoply of interesting, innovative, and oftentimes weird ways of outwitting them.
*; Catching trout simplified*; A brilliantly written and well-crafted exposes fly fishings greatest myths--selectivity, matching the hatch, pressured fish, fish feeling pain, precise imitations, drag-free drifts*; Recipes for the authors tried-and-true patterns*; Practical, down-to-earth suggestions for catching fish
Includes 16 flies from the Adams to Zoo Cougar, legendary tiers like Len Halladay, George Griffith, and Clark Lynn, and original and modern patterns for each classic fly.
Learn the switch cast, single spey, double spey, snake roll, snap T, and devon switch, and now the skagit castThe efficient way for anglers to catch fish--including trout, striped bass, salmon, and steelhead--on big, moving watersNo other cast is more graceful, or more fun to learn, than the spey cast.
