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A licensed fishing guide's observations on the common mistakes made by anglers, A Guide's Guide to Fly-Fishing Mistakes provides practical tips on how to improve fly-fishing techniques and break bad habits. Licensed fishing guide and instructor Sara Low offers remedies to freshwater anglers on topics that include correctly approaching fish, improving fly selection, proper presentation, consistent and accurate casting, efficient hooking and landing...
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A collection of more than 150 comics from popular cartoonist Jonny Hawkins.
Any fisherman who has ever been annoyed by the braggart fisherman loudly celebrating every single catch or who has ever wondered what goes through the minds of fish as they watch the hook descend upon them will be in good company here. Fabulous Fishing Funnies finds something funny in every possible fishing scenario, some realistic, others more imaginative. Reluctant relatives...
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Newcomers to the wonderful world of fly tying should look no further than The Fly Tier's Manual for all their needs. Written by the incredibly talented Mike Dawes, who has been tying flies and fishing in Hampshire for decades and runs International Fly, largely considered one of the best manufacturers of commercially tied flies in the world, this book is a must have for fly fishers of all skill levels. This is the perfect book for the novice with...
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101 Favorite Dry Flies is the latest from acclaimed writer David Klausmeyer. Whether you are a beginner seeking a comprehensible fishing guide or an experienced tyer yearning for the newest and most effective techniques, this book has it all. Each fly is wonderfully captured with its own clear photos and complete set of instructions. Not only does Klausmeyer highlight insightful tips and fishing strategies on specific flies, but he also offers historical...
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Perfect for everyone who wants to try crappie fishing. Filled with advice from expert fisherman Keith Sutton the Crappie Fishing Handbook is a thorough guide for crappie fishing. Learn about Keith Sutton's methods to improve your fishing skills. Keith Sutton includes an introduction to crappie and explains how to do many aspects of crappie fishing: choose a lure, pick bait, catch your dream crappie, and much more. Sutton's techniques are clear and...
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North America has had a 400-year love affair with the brook trout - Salvelinus fontinalis- its great native trout. In this newly revised and updated volume, Nick Karas offers the only major profile of this most beautiful gamefish. Brook Trout is a thorough look at the history, biology, and angling possibilities of the fish most anglers affectionately call the brookie.
Through the eyes of a trained ichthyologist, Karas explores the brook trout's...
747) Giant Bluefin
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This elegantly written and compelling work portrays the way the Japanese demand for giant bluefin tuna has altered the lives of Cape Cod fishermen. In telling the story of one man's passionate hunt for giant bluefin, Douglas Whynott details the competition and camaraderie in the bluefin fishery, the pressures of a conservationist movement seeking to limit the bluefin harvest, and the struggle of the fisherman himself against "the wild horses of [the]...
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This marvelous collection features stories from some of America's finest and most respected writers about one of the world's most solitary and satisfying sports: fly fishing. For the first time, the stories of thirty-one acclaimed writers including Kim Barnes, Walter Bennett, Russell Chatham, Guy de la Valdène, Robert DeMott, Chris Dombrowski, Ron Ellis, Jim Fergus, Kate Fox, Charles Gaines, Bruce Guernsey, Jim Harrison, Pam Houston, Michael Keaton,...
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This book grew from the author's desire to consolidate the many teachings that he uses in his popular fly-fishing classes. It is a textbook that includes concise and selective commentary on tackle, casting, tactics, flies and fly tying, and other related topics. The word "companion" derives from "one with whom we share our bread." After more than fifty years of fly fishing, the author would like to sit at the streamside and share these observations...
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The finest fly tying reference book of all time.
Drawing on the designs and innovations of the best fly tyers, both past and present, Eric Leiser interprets more than one thousand classic and contemporary fly patterns. Here is all the information (hook sizes, materials, etc.) needed in order to dress the pattern properly, with professional tips for solving specific problems.
Inside are more than one thousand fly patterns-for all manner of flies...
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All fishermen who have fished for a lifetime have baskets of great stories and reminiscences about the sport they love. Nick Lyons's new collection is chock-full of them. From fishing a small Catskill creek and catching a huge brook trout when he was barely out of infancy to long opening day treks during his teens, and then on to fishing in France, Iceland, Key West, Montana, and widely elsewhere, Nick has spent a lifetime on the water.
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Learn tips and tricks for all new flies sure to catch carp!
Carp are one of the most widely distributed and abundant fish in North America. Their prodigious size and habit of finning in shallow water make them appear to be easy fly-fishing targets. In reality, most anglers quickly discover that they are extremely difficult to hook on a fly. It takes years to discover how to catch them consistently. The reason? Carp can be very selective about what...
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Catfish are among the largest and hardest fighting game fish found in North America. Master angler Keith "Catfish" Sutton shares his in-depth knowledge and reveals both time-tested and advanced catfishing techniques to make Catfishing: Beyond the Basics the ultimate handbook for catching these remarkable fish.
Learn catfishing techniques for channel cats, blues, flatheads, and bullheads using innovative and alternative tactics. Find out about advanced...
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This complete book contains valuable information on more than 125 popular saltwater gamefish species. Includes tips and insights on selecting the correct rods and reels for each gamefish, an overview on terminal tackle, easy-to-follow illustrations of knots and rigging, conventional and fly-fishing techniques, a lowdown on boats and marine electronics, and a section on marine conservation and how you can help protect our gamefish populations.
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Will fly fishing survive the twenty-first century? Author and angler Paul Guernsey argues that angling and the natural resources it depends upon-clear rivers, unpolluted oceans, and much more-are threatened by a host of increasingly complex social and environmental factors. Tradition, conservation of land and water, a foresighted ethic, concerns for the sport of other anglers, a commitment to the next generation, and much more-these are at the heart...
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The Pocket Fishing Basics Guide is a handy reference for any aspiring angler, providing all kinds of questions and basic techniques on freshwater fishing across America. Inside, fishermen will find information about North American fish species, how to find prime fishing spots, safety tips while fishing, selecting appropriate bait, artificial lures and tackle, proper fishing techniques, handling and cleaning fish, and more! Written by an award-winning...
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This history and guide to the fly-fishing waters of Yellowstone National Park is a loving homage to the region's iconic wild trout.
Yellowstone National Park is home to some of the most storied destinations in the history of fly fishing. Casting in the Firehole River is like going back in time to, when bison roamed nearly every meadow in the West. Restored to their natal streams after near extinction, native Arctic grayling can, once again be plucked...
758) A Flyfisher's World
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This ample selection of articles and essays by one of America's most popular writers about fly-fishing begins with a moment on Michigan's Au Sable River-the exact moment when the author lost his heart to fly-fishing. This collection chronicles a fishing life punctuated by a revealing trip with one of his grown sons and mellow reflections from a hospital bed.
This is the broadest of Nick Lyons's books, with sections on tarpon and pike fishing in the...
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A Collection of Stories about Fish, Fishermen, and Favorite Fishing Spots with Action on Every Page
The incomparable Philip Wylie is here writing about one of the things he likes best-fishing. Anyone who has ever wet a line, and perhaps those few benighted souls who haven't, will be thrilled to read these true tales about the big ones, hooked (and sometimes lost) in tropic waters.
In Denizens of the Deep, which was originally published in 1947,...
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No book has taught-or retaught-more serious fly tiers the basic skills of fly tying than Helen Shaw's Fly-Tying. Shaw's simple and logical prose throughout and more than 250 life-size tying sequences make the various processes easy to understand, follow, and apply. Readers of Fly-Tying will learn every skill necessary to tie flies using many different materials, including:
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• Dubbing
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