Essential Fly Fishing

Learning the Right Way and Improving the Skills You Have

Tom Meade - Illustrated by Bob White

Essential Fly Fishing - an all-color handbook - presents the fundamentals of this great sport quickly and effectively. Proven teaching techniques and bright, helpful color illustrations will enable new fly fishers to: find fish in streams, lakes, and salt water; select and assemble proper, balanced tackle; cast a fly line with authority - with rhythm, not strength; recognize and learn to simulate natural fish foods; learn techniques that really work; tie effective knots that have maximum strength; and begin the endlessly interesting process of tying your own flies. This book concisely explains fishing ethics, offers helpful safety precautions, and defines basic angling terms. The chapter on fly-rod fish describes the unique sport that many species - from trout to whitefish - offer fly fishers. Essential Fly Fishing is a crisp, helpful, superbly illustrated primer of the highest rank.

Globe Pequot / Lyons Press

Pages: 160 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4930-5036-9 • Paperback • March 2020 • $19.95 • (£13.95)

Series: Essential

Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Fishing, Nature / Animals / Fish

Essential Fly Fishing

Learning the Right Way and Improving the Skills You Have

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Summary

Essential Fly Fishing - an all-color handbook - presents the fundamentals of this great sport quickly and effectively. Proven teaching techniques and bright, helpful color illustrations will enable new fly fishers to: find fish in streams, lakes, and salt water; select and assemble proper, balanced tackle; cast a fly line with authority - with rhythm, not strength; recognize and learn to simulate natural fish foods; learn techniques that really work; tie effective knots that have maximum strength; and begin the endlessly interesting process of tying your own flies. This book concisely explains fishing ethics, offers helpful safety precautions, and defines basic angling terms. The chapter on fly-rod fish describes the unique sport that many species - from trout to whitefish - offer fly fishers. Essential Fly Fishing is a crisp, helpful, superbly illustrated primer of the highest rank.

Details

Globe Pequot / Lyons Press

Pages: 160 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4930-5036-9 • Paperback • March 2020 • $19.95 • (£13.95)

Series: Essential

Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Fishing, Nature / Animals / Fish

Author

Tom Meade is the outdoor sports columnist for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, and a former editor for Fly Fisherman and Fishing & Hunting News. He lives in North Kingstown, RI.

Reviews

"A lucid and concise introduction."--Library Journal

“Essential Fly Fishing will prove an invaluable aid to people who want to enter the magical, enduring world of fly fishing.”—Nick Lyons, from the Foreword
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Essential Fly Fishing

Learning the Right Way and Improving the Skills You Have

Tom Meade - Illustrated by Bob White

Essential Fly Fishing

Learning the Right Way and Improving the Skills You Have

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