The Total Flyfishing Manual

The most comprehensive fly fishing guide with the best tips, old school-techniques, tactics, and up-to-date gear reviews. Filled with over three hundred hints from the best anglers in both salt and fresh water, the editors of Field and Stream give you everything you need to make the perfect pitch, find a secret spot, and score a fish. TOOLS: From the best flies of all time to the best reel for the job and when to change your hooks, learn about the tools you need for the job—as well as practical skills like tying a Palomar knot, how to unravel fly lines, the five-minute fly, tying a clouser minnow, and how to lose the tailing loop. TECHNIQUES: From old to new, everything you need to know to strike in the night, put a different spin on it, spot and stalk, shoot the breeze, and find where they feed. TACTICS: Put yourself in the best position for the catch: get up the creek for a late-season trout, find a secret spot, sneak up on more fish, fish headwaters for autumn trout, fish with your eyes, hook more rising fish, take the long shot, and dominate the shoreline. Whether you’re fishing for salmon, bass, or carp, this guide will help you improve your technique, upgrade your equipment, and hook your prize fish.

"307 essential skills and tips: tools, tying, techniques, tactics"--Cover.

The Total Fly Fishing Manual is the most comprehensive collection of expert fly fishing advice and up-to-date gear reviews. This book gathers the best tips, old school-techniques that still deliver and adds a wealth of new material.

Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned angler, this illustrated manual will help you polish up your fishing skills. A lavishly illustrated companion complete with maps and information on best seasons and hot spots, The Complete Fishing Manual shows you the best places for fishing experiences. Helpful notes on choosing the right kit, tackle, clothing, and accessories help you prepare to be perfectly poised for a memorable affair with nature. The e-guide also goes beyond other books to cover strategies for fly fishing, coarse fishing, and game fishing. Featuring detailed tactics and techniques for both freshwater and saltwater species, and explaining the anatomy, behavior, and habitat of fish from all over the world, this indispensable volume gives you everything you need to improve your float, ledger, lure, and fly skills. With authoritative explanatory text as well as clear, detailed photography, The Complete Fishing Manual is an invaluable aid for keen anglers everywhere.

GEAR UP How to pick the best lures, baits, flies, and tackle for every situation and every style of water you plan to fish. Customize your rod and reel to suit your every need. Learn how to customize your gear, get the most out of your boat, and more. HIT THE WATER From small streams to major rivers, ponds to big lakes, and bays to the open ocean, hundreds of field-tested strategies will help you catch more fish with or without a boat. FIND THE FISHProfessional fishing guides from across the country tell you how and where to find lunker bass, trophy walleyes, huge trout, and much more right in your home waters. SET THE HOOK Whether you're bobber fishing for bluegills with the kids or heading out after the muskie of a lifetime, the techniques and tactics in this book will make your trip a success. When it comes to fishing, nobody knows more than the writers and editors at Field & Stream magazine--unless it's the guides, prize winners, and other experts they interviewed to create this book. In 324 tips and tricks, this comprehensive handbook covers everything from flyfishing to bass boats to surfcasting, and more. Individual chapters break down how to build the ultimate tackle box, best bait and lures for every species, techniques to catch all of the most popular gamefish, and tactics for fishing ponds, rivers, lakes, and oceans in every season. Whether you're a weekend angler looking to hook your kid on fishing or a serious sport fisher looking for that big trophy bass, this book has the information you need, presented with tons of color photos and handy illustrations.

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.

Clearly written and generously illustrated, this book presents a practical, informative approach, geared specifically toward novice and intermediate anglers. You'll learn how to select the right equipment, master basic as well as intermediate casting techniques, read the water in order to find the fish, study various types of water bugs to determine what the fish are feeding on and pick the right fly for the job.

Counsels beginners on the fundamentals of fly fishing using illustrated guidelines that demonstrate everything from fishing ethics and safety practices to tying effective knots and casting a fly line. Original. 15,000 first printing.