Outdoors category: 5873 books
by A. K. Best
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
Covers gear and tackle, fly selection, casting, setting the hook, playing and releasing the fish, float fishing. Insight into a wealth of fishing experience from one of the most well-known fly fishers in the sport today. Illustrations by Dave Hall and photos by John Gierach.
Tricks That Take Fish
The Definitive Guide to Catching Freshwater Gamefish on Bait Lures and Flies
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Seasoned fisherman Harold Blaisdell shares the secrets he’s discovered over years of catching trout, bass, salmon, pickerel, pike, and more. You name it, he’s caught it. Here you’ll find tips for catching trout with worms or minnows, attracting lake salmon with wet flies, making homemade decoys for ice fishing, and much more!
Lefty Kreh's Presenting the Fly
A Practical Guide To The Most Important Element Of Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
***Lefty Kreh's Presenting the Fly***details the most essential analysis in fly-fishing: how to get the right fly to the right fish, in the right way, at the right time. This vastly comprehensive, large-format volume explains the ways that shape, color, and weight of the fly can determine success under varying conditions.
Fly Fishing Made Easy
A Manual For Beginners With Tips For The Experienced
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
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...
by Roland Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2008
Roland Martin, the most successful bass fisherman in history in terms of tournaments won, is a prolific source of bass fishing wisdom and sure-fire bassing tips. Both practical and discursive, Martin not only discusses why bass strike, how to use live bait, plugs, and spinners, tricks for night fishing,...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1989
Small-stream fishing wisdom with Gierach's trademark pungent humor. Advice on tackle selecting, reading water, scouting.
Strip-Set
Fly-Fishing Techniques, Tactics, & Patterns for Streamers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A comprehensive book on tactics for streamers, including new approaches for trout, steelhead, muskie, and bass. Features over 450 detailed photos and illustrations of casting and presenting streamers.
by Ed Engle
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004
The fishing companion to Tying Small Flies. Instructions and illustrations for tricky casts, including pile, reach, parachute, and downstream-and-across reach. Techniques for dead-drift nymphing, freestyle nymphing, and fishing dry-fly and in-the-film plus how to fish tiny mayflies, Tricos, Pale Morning Duns, midges, microcaddis, terrestrials.
Every Day Was Special
A Fly Fisher's Lifelong Passion
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
"It’s been a lifelong, ever-expanding journey, with many big ?sh and faraway waters and dramatic moments . . . and yet I don’t think any of those moments or any of those places or ?sh has thrilled me any more than seeing the twitch of my ?y line where it entered the muddy waters of my backyard...
Growing Gills
A Fly Fisherman's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
I know that most families have stories of fishing trips, but with mine it's a little different. These aren't tales told and born anew each time everyone's back together. These aren't stories marking the one or two outings when a father took a son fishing. These stories are our lives, the cornerstones...
by Cathy Beck
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
All the basics--on gear, lines, leaders, and knots, and casting.
by Dave Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The sheer variety of fly-fishing environments and experience covered in Taking Trout make it a worthy addition to a fishing library. Fishing a canyon stream with midges, Hughes teaches the basics of presentation. Fishing stair steps, Hughes covers strategies to prevent drag. Fishing bank water, Hughes...
by Dave Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
Choosing the right line and rod for small stream fishing.
Trout Tips
More than 250 fly-fishing tips from the members of Trout Unlimited
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the mighty rivers of the Pacific Northwest, to the rolling streams of New England, to the freestone streams of the Appalachians, to the frigid waters of Canada, fly fishing is a sport embraced by anglers from all corners of North America. And now from the members of the highly respected conservation...