The Orvis Guide to the Essential American Flies

The Orvis Guide to the Essential American Flies

Author: Tom Rosenbauer

Publisher: Lyons Press

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781493061709

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The Orvis Guide to the Essential American Flies is the definitive full-color how-to guide for tying the most successful and productive freshwater and saltwater flies.


The Orvis Guide to the Essential American Flies

The Orvis Guide to the Essential American Flies

Author: Tom Rosenbauer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1493061712

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The definitive guide to tying the most successful and productive freshwater and saltwater flies of all time. While there are thousands of flies available to anglers, many of the most popular are those that, by virtue of their fish-catching ability and unique construction methods, have stood the test of time. This indispensable resource features twenty quintessential fly patterns, including the Parachute Adams, Clouser Minnow, and Woolly Bugger. With detailed chapters exploring the history of and variations on each fly, interviews with fly originators, and step-by-step tying “recipes” and instructions, this is the perfect reference book for fly tiers of all abilities. Published in association with The Orvis Company.


Nymph Fishing

Nymph Fishing

Author: George Daniel

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-07-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0811767701

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Best-selling author George Daniel shares expert tactics and techniques for a new generation of nymph anglers. He covers specialized equipment, flies, and presentations, focusing on advanced lessons and tips for anglers with a solid grasp of fundamentals. Important technique sequences and fly patterns are photographed in detail.


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.


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.


Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing for Coastal Gamefish

Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing for Coastal Gamefish

Author: Aaron Adams

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1461748631

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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. Behavior, life cycles, and fishing tips for 25 marine gamefish and their prey are included. Species include red drum, spotted seatrout, permit, bonefish, snook, tarpon, barracuda, snapper, ladyfish, weakfish, bluefish, striped bass, cobia, cero mackerel, Spanish mackerel, and jacks. The updated and revised new edition contains new chapters as well as an all-new art program.


Fly Tyer's Guide to Tying Essential Trout Flies

Fly Tyer's Guide to Tying Essential Trout Flies

Author: David Klausmeyer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1493004670

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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. From “Getting Started: The Tools You Will Need to Tie Flies” to “Fying Streamers that Catch Large Trout,” and everything in between, the fly-fishing shelf has yt to see such a concise, authoritative tying manual. Nobody writes about fly tying quite like Dave Klausmeyer, and nobody has published a book quite like this one.


ORVIS POCKET GT DRYFLY FISHING: A

ORVIS POCKET GT DRYFLY FISHING: A

Author: Tom Rosenbauer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1493002511

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This handy reference and guidebook covers the essential elements of this most exciting form of fly fishing, including tips on how to select the right dry fly for the situation, the best types of water and the best times of day to fish dries, identifying riseforms and what the fish are eating, special leaders and the right rod and line, and ways to present the fly to make it look natural. Also included are valuable tips on how to approach a rising fish without spooking it, and how to cast the fly on fast, slow, or still water to obtain the best results. Whether you are fishing the water for unseen trout or for rising selective feeders, this pocket reference book should always be in your tackle bag or vest. Illustrated with color photographs and superb drawings by Rod Walinchus, this pocket guide will prove indispensable for beginners and experts alike.


The Orvis Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets

The Orvis Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets

Author: Tom Rosenbauer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-04-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1493032844

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Every fly fisher knows how crucial leader construction and knot tying are. But with continual changes in line technology, what served as effective leader and tippet connections a decade ago might not be optimal now. By updating the original Orvis Streamside Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets, this handy take-along book addresses the technical issues surrounding leaders and connections in relation to state-of-the-art line materials and types, and details the best overall knots for fly-line connections. Staying connected to the fish just got easier!