Doug Stewart

The Practical Fly Fisher

Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Fly Fishing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sprinkled in between the fly dressings and tying lessons are hundreds of illustrations drawn by longtime fishing guide Doug Stewart as well as personal stories and anecdotes. These are interesting and informative?each one containing an element of knowledge or instruction that will add to your fishing success. The book's purpose is to help you become a more complete angler, a better fly tier, and a more successful fly fisher. It covers all aspects of fly fishing: casting, proper equipment, tying flies, reading water, the feeding habits of fish, and the proper strategy for fishing a stretch of river. Also included in the book are traditional and historical flies along with a selection of Doug's favorite patterns. Dressings and instructions are also presented. Doug Stewart, a lifelong fly fisher, is also a fly-tying instructor and guide and a fly shop owner, and has written about fly-fishing for The Oregon Sportsman and Amato Publications. Doug spent many years teaching customers how to fly fish during the thirty-two years he owned Stewart's Fly Shop. ?I think I get more out of teaching someone, out of seeing them be successful or catch their first fish, than I do out of catching my own,? Doug says.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Margin Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 196mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9780871083142
• ISBN-10: 0871083140
• Artikelnr.: 40721828

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART I MASTERING THE TECHNIQUES Equipment-Rods
Leaders
Fly Lines and Reels Fly Casting-The Grip
The Basic Cast
Push and Pull Method and Cures
Mending the Line and Special Casts. PART II METHODS FOR TYING AND FISHING WET FLIES Historical Pioneers of Fly Fishing. Basic Wet Fly Instructions for tying a Leadwing Coachman
Soft Hackles and Methods of Wet Fly Fishing: The Wet Fly Swing
Upstream Dead Drifting
Downstream Long-Lining
Subsurface Swing
Upstream Retrieve and The Cross-Stream Strip. Winter Steelhead Methods-Migration
Holding Waters
Lines
Flies and Leaders Summer Steelhead Methods-Greased Line
Wet Fly Swing
Dead Drifting
Spotting Fish
Leaders
Water Types and High Sticking. Tying Streamers and Steelhead Flies-The Supervisor and Nick's Nightmare. PART III METHODS FOR TYING AND FISHING NYMPHS Historical Pioneers of Fly Fishing. Methods-G.E.M Skues
Sawyer
Teeny
Chuck and Duck
Brooks
Leisenring Lift and Walking the Fly. Tying Nymphs: Casual Dress
Bitch Creek
Teeny Nymph and Brooks Stone. PART IV METHODS FOR TYING AND FISHING DRY FLIES Historical Pioneers of Fly Fishing. Methods-Dapping the Fly
Recognizing Surface and Subsurface Activity. Feeding Habits: Rises
Refusals
Selectivity
Masking Hatches
Non-rising Fish and Setting the Hook. Tying Dry Flies: The Professor
Green Sedge and Royal Coachman. PART V STREAM ANATOMY
WEATHER
SENSES OF FISH AND ENTOMOLOGY Riffles
Glides
Pocket Water and Pools Wing
Rain
Barometer
High and Low Water
Hot Weather
Sun and Shadows. How Fish See and Perceive Color
The Sense of Smell
The Sense of Hearing
The Sense of Taste and Feel. Entomology: Matching Hatches
Collecting Equipment
Stream Diary and Insect Identification. PART VI SPECIAL METHODS History of the Pott Fly. Tools and the method to tie the Pott Fly. Practical Fishing Knots. Dropper Knots and How to Tie them. Wading Safely. Playing
Landing and Releasing Fish. PART V11 FABULOUS FLIES AND FABLES Twenty-four Proven Patterns and Selective Stories. BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX