Beginner's Guide to Fly Fishing

Beginner's Guide to Fly Fishing

Author: James A. Casada

Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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Wherever you find a clear freshwater stream or river, you'll also find devoted anglers intent on matching their wits against trout, salmon, and other fighting fish. Here is the perfect instruction book for beginners. Clear, comprehensive charts detail essential information on how to choose appropriate flies, rods, reels, and lines for catching different varieties of fish. With words and pictures, author Peter Gathercole also coaches his readers on fishing skills and techniques, starting with simple basics that include assembling the fishing rod, attaching the fly, mastering casting techniques, and reeling. He takes novice fishermen through the many steps toward proficiency and a pleasurable fishing experience. He also offers refresher chapters for those anglers who have been away from fishing for some time. And even advanced anglers will find advice and tips guaranteed to improve their skills for their next fishing outing. This attractive book is filled with hundreds of how-to color photos.


The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

Author: Tom Rosenbauer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1493025821

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This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns. How to choose and prepare the correct material, and all the necessary tying steps for each fly, are detailed in superb, large, color photographs. Even if you have no previous tying experience, you'll be able to tie dries, nymphs, streamers, saltwater offerings, and bass bugs after just a few sessions with this book. The tyer is then advised how to progress to similar patterns using the same basic techniques. Also included is a huge reference of fly patterns - more than four hundred flies from the Orvis catalog are shown in full color, along with the tying recipes and proportions for each one. This book, drawing from the Orvis Company's vast resources and teaching experience and written by an author whose name is synonymous with Orvis, has become the bible for fly-tyers of all skill levels.


The Curtis Creek Manifesto

The Curtis Creek Manifesto

Author: Sheridan Anderson

Publisher: Frank Amato Publications

Published: 1978-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780936608068

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Sub-title from cover: A fully illustrated guide to the strategy, finesse, tactics and paraphernalia of fly fishing.


Fly Fishing Basics

Fly Fishing Basics

Author: Dave Hughes

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780811724395

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Fundamentals for the beginning fly fisher including tips on rod and reel selection, tackle and tying techniques, basic and advanced casting methods, and more.


The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide

Author: Tom Rosenbauer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-05-01

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1493025805

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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. A best-selling, fully illustrated, and comprehensive book, this large-format volume has been required reading for every angler for nearly three decades. Included here are instructions for tackle selection; casting and presentation; flies and their specific uses; successful techniques on stream, pond, or ocean; and the select tackle, flies, and methods for pursuing every major gamefish in fresh and salt water, from bass to bonefish, tarpon to trout.


Basic Fly Fishing

Basic Fly Fishing

Author: Jon Rounds

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780811733038

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Provides essential facts on getting started and knowledge about casting, fly selection, knot tying, reading the water, and tactics.


Fly Fishing for Trout

Fly Fishing for Trout

Author: Dick Talleur

Publisher: Lyons Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558212138

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Fly Fishing for Trout is one of the finest fly-fishing primers ever written!It treats every aspect of the sport needed to bring the reader to the level of highly competent fly rodding - choice of tackle, rigging up, beginning and essential casts, knot tying, approach, fly selection, and basic entomology. Its step-by-step instructions, more than 200 drawings and photographs (including a full four-color section), and pervasive wit and good sense make learning painless and lots of fun. (8 1/2 X 11, 300 pages, color photos, b&w photos, illustrations, diagrams, charts)


Fly-Fishing Knots

Fly-Fishing Knots

Author: Creative Publishing International

Publisher: Creative Publishing International

Published: 2002-09-01

Total Pages: 2

ISBN-13: 9781589230668

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When learning how to fly fish, the special knots you need to be successful are sometimes difficult to master. And for many anglers, when a leader breaks out on the stream or you need to add a new tippet to your leader, it's almost impossible to remember how to tie the best knot. This Pocket Guide is the perfect tool for you to carry in your fly vest whenever you're out on the water. Included are easy-to-understand illustrations for making sure your backing, fly line, leader and tippet will not fail when you're fighting the fish of a lifetime.


Tying Dry Flies

Tying Dry Flies

Author: Randall Kaufmann

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781885212054

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Though not always easy, of the many fly fishing methods, dry-fly fishing is the easiest. This full-color book offers dry-fly fishing tips, entomology, historical information, plus shows you how to tie the world's most popular dry-flies with over 850 step-by-step color photos. Through 26 demonstration patterns you will learn how to tie the most effective dry-flies with speed, ease, and efficiency.