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posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

A how-to and where-to guide for catching fly fishing’s toughest fish!

Fishermen brag about the biggest trout. They talk about the spookiest bonefish. They speak in high excitement of the speed of a false albacore. But the permit has taunted more fisherman than all of these fish, and has maintained a reputation for being truly impossible to catch.

Whole clubs of frustrated permit pursuers have been created. Stories abound of fishermen who have fished for years before catching their first permit. Now Jack Samson, legendary editor of Field and Stream for fifteen years, begins to turn the tide. Jack has pursued permit around the world and has gone further than any other writer in unlocking the mysteries of this fabled fish. Fly Fishing for Permit is his attempt to provide a complete guide to all aspects of permit fishing.

You’ll learn what kind of equipment you’ll need. You’ll get thorough instruction on how to use that equipment. You’ll get detailed information with maps for fishing all the famous permit areas of the world—Mexico’s Ascension Bay, the Florida Keys, Belize, and many more. Finally, Samson has compiled an extensive selection of photos and tying recipes of the most effective flies—included the latest innovative patterns. Plus there’s a bonus appendix of permit fishing stories from several of the most famous permit fishermen in the world including Gordie Hill, Winston Moore, and more. 92 black & white photographs, 16 color photographs, index.

About the Author
Jack Samson was editor of Field and Stream for fifteen years—until his permit addiction got the best of him. He now travels the world in pursuit of this fish. Samson is the author of several books, including Permit on a Fly. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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posted by admin on Jan 7

Editorial Reviews

*118 color photos
* 25 line drawings
* 8 x 11
* Illustrated guide to tackle, tactics, species, habitat, destinations
* Drawings of saltwater knots and casting techniques
* Especially useful for fly fishers making the transition from fresh water to salt

The recent popularity of saltwater fly fishing has created the need for a book that presents the fundamentals of stalking and catching wary flats species. This clearly illustrated and beautifully photographed guide covers basic equipment (rods, reels, line, leaders, flies, clothing); techniques (tying knots, casting, stalking fish); species (bonefish, permit, tarpon, snook, barracuda, redfish, jacks, stripers, bluefish, false albacore, bonito, sea trout, and weakfish); habitat (tides, wind, and structure); and destinations (Caribbean, Mexico, Florida Keys, Outer Banks, Chesapeake Bay, New England coast). It also includes a detailed photo sequence on the double haul, a distance-casting technique crucial for saltwater anglers.

Barry and Cathy Beck are among the most recognized names in fly fishing. They contribute photographs and articles to all the major fly-fishing magazines, have written several books, and are much-sought after tackle and travel consultants. They live in Benton, Pennsylvania.

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posted by admin on Jan 5

Editorial Reviews

For the subspecies of saltwater angler who insists on doing his fishing with flies, Kreh is the guru and this is the holy book. Now in its third revised edition, Fly Fishing in Salt Water first surfaced in the late ’60s when the idea of fishing the seas with a fly for bluefish, stripers, bonito, and bigger game like tarpon and tuna was not only novel, it was sneered at. Fly-fishing in saltwater is still a relatively new frontier, but time has proven Kreh a visionary and the virtual father of the sport, and this how-to remains an essential part of a saltwater fly-angler’s tackle.

Why fish salt water with a fly? Because, says Kreh, it combines the best physical and cerebral aspects of fishing and hunting, with the added complication that “no stocked fish roam the seas.” Unlike trout fishing (”Trout fishing writers have always tended to complicate a rather simple sport,” carps Kreh), where the angler must understand from the start that trout in a pool are relatively stationary creatures that exist only on the food available in that pool, saltwater species are fish in transit, constantly on the move, often in schools, and they gulp down anything they run into. Kreh’s bible begins by engraving that difference in stone. Then it patiently introduces you to the sport’s basics step by step: the necessary tackle and how to care for it; technique; fly patterns; fish behavior; the long cast; understanding tides and where fish are likely located; and specifics of deepwater fishing, inshore fishing, and fishing at sea from boats.

“The sea has always been a fascination to me, and the creatures in it offer the greatest challenge a fly rodder will ever know,” writes Kreh. His unparalleled infectious enthusiasm–just look at the cover photo of the author: a happy man if ever there was one–and expertise make that challenge as reachable as it is alluring. –Jeff Silverman

Twenty years ago, Fly Fishing in Salt Water pioneered this new territory for fly fishers. Now, with over thirty thousand copies sold and in a fully updated, revised, and expanded edition, Lefty Kreh has yet again brought his classic work up-to-date. In clear, practical terms and helpful photographs and line drawings, Fly Fishing in Salt Water treats the techniques needed to catch all the major saltwater species - bonefish, tarpon, striped bass, bluefish, salmon, permit, snook, sharks, cobia, tuna, billfish, and more. The book shows how to fish from boats and how to wade the flats, and fully explains all the tackle needed and how to use it for specific jobs - the rods, the lines and leaders, and the flies (shown in full color). Lefty provides superb advice about how to make the long casts necessary for fishing the fly in salt water, how to “tease” sailfish and other large fish to within fly-casting range, how to chum, and how to tie the necessary knots for saltwater fishing. New chapters include Knots and Leaders, Flies, Tackle, Inshore Fly Fishing, and Boats. Fly Fishing in Salt Water is based on firsthand experience by an acknowledged master. It is the saltwater fly fisher’s bible. (7 1/4 X 9 1/2, 344 pages, color photos, b&w photos, diagrams, charts)

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posted by admin on Jan 2

Editorial Reviews

A collection of bonefish flies showing the best fly designs from world-class flats anglers and guides.

From the Back Cover
Bonefish Fly Patterns is the most comprehensive collection of bonefish flies ever published, displaying fly designs from such world-class flats anglers and guides as Winston Moore, Jim Orthwein (four-time bonefish world record holder), Steve Huff, Harry Spear, Rick Ruoff, Del Brown, John Goddard, Barry and Cathy Beck, Lou Tabory, Tim Borski, Bob Clouser, Lefty Kreh, Tom McGuane, Yvon Chouinard, Jack Gartside, Carl Richards, Craig Mathews, George Anderson, Ben Estes, and many, many more. The book contains 60-65 color photographs. Each fly profile is listed with its creator’s authentic recipe and tying tips. Also included are tying sequences for important patterns, a discussion of design trends, a materials glossary, and a list of sources for materials, custom flies, and off-the-shelf patterns. Dick Brown does not forget to describe fly selection for different destinations, habitats, and conditions, and to advise anglers on how to present flies and what prey they portray.

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posted by admin on Jan 1

Editorial Reviews

No brand of fly fishing challenges anglers more than stalking bonefish on tropical saltwater flats. Fly Fishing for Bonefish offers a definitive profile of this elusive fish and thoroughly dissects the skills needed to catch it. Brown shows how to find and see bonefish - how to spot feeding and mudding signs, the camouflage techniques the fish adopts, the effects of tide, temperature, and weather on where the fish will be and how it can be spotted. Then he gives helpful advice on how to fish cruising or tailing fish, which stripping techniques work best, how to set drag, and the most effective ways to strike and fight bonefish. An especially interesting section treats fly selection and design - with color plates of more than seventy patterns tied by some of today’s most innovative fly developers, including Carl Richards, Craig Mathews, Jack Gartside, Jeffrey Cardenas, Lefty Kreh, Ben Estes, Tim Borski, Jim Orthwein, and many others. Brown also catalogs major bonefish destinations around the world. With its hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs (the color sections on how to spot fish are exceptionally valuable), dozens of line drawings by Bob White, and a crisp, authoritative, and extensive text, Fly Fishing for Bonefish is the definitive book on what may well be fly fishing’s ultimate challenge. (7 1/4 X 9 1/2, 372 pages, color photos, b&w photos, maps, illustrations, diagrams, charts)

From the Back Cover
No brand of fly fishing challenges anglers more than stalking bonefish on tropical saltwater flats.Fly Fishing for Bonefish offers a definitive profile of this elusive fish and thoroughly dissects the skills needed to catch it. Brown shows how to find and see bonefish - how to spot feeding and mudding signs, the camouflage techniques the fish adopts, the effects of tide, temperature, and weather on where the fish will be and how it can be spotted. Then he gives helpful advice on how to fish cruising or tailing fish, which stripping techniques work best, how to set drag, and the most effective ways to strike and fight bonefish.An especially interesting section treats fly selection and design - with color plates of more than seventy patterns tied by some of today’s most innovative fly developers, including Carl Richards, Craig Mathews, Jack Gartside, Jeffrey Cardenas, Lefty Kreh, Ben Estes, Tim Borski, Jim Orthwein, and many others. Brown also catalogs major bonefish destinations around the world.With its hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs (the color sections on how to spot fish are exceptionally valuable), dozens of line drawings by Bob White, and a crisp, authoritative, and extensive text, Fly Fishing for Bonefish is the definitive book on what may well be fly fishing’s ultimate challenge. (7 1/4 X 9 1/2, 372 pages, color photos, b&w photos, maps, illustrations, diagrams, charts)

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posted by admin on Dec 20

Editorial Reviews

“There is nothing that you need to know about tarpon and pursuing them with flies that is not contained in this book.”
-Flip Pallot, in the Foreword
Tarpon On Fly draws from two primary sources-the observations and knowledge that come with Rob’s nearly 20 years’ experience as a professional tarpon fishing guide, and the journals and the curiosity of lifelong fly fisherman Donald who came late to tarpon fishing but has savored every hour of it. The knowledge and experience of these two men has led to the definitive book on fly-fishing for the Silver King. Tarpon On Fly includes: in-depth coverage of tarpon biology and behavior; tackle; rigging up; flies for tarpon; setting up to cast; aiming and casting; retrieving; striking; fighting; guides and anglers; tournaments; references; and so much more. Clear illustrations and photography further enhance this classic. We couldn’t have said it any better than Flip.

About the Author
Donald Larmouth began fly-fishing in saltwater after half a lifetime of freshwater fishing. A typical “tourist angler” in many respects, his saltwater fishing experience began with Flip Pallot in 1985, and he has fished with Rob Fordyce yearly since 1991. Though chronically infested with tarpon fever, he also fishes for snook, redfish, bonefish, jacks, and other saltwater game fish—as well as for trout, steelhead, salmon, small mouth bass, and many other freshwater species in the continental United States, Alaska, British Columbia, Ontario, Labrador, England, Costa Rica, and the Bahamas. He has also published articles in Salmon Trout Steelheader magazine and wrote a biweekly fishing column in Wisconsin’s Great Outdoors, drawing stories and anecdotes from outdoor journals he has kept since childhood. A former Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Graduate Programs, he retired in August 2000 as Professor Emeritus in linguistics and scientific & technical communication at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay.

Captain Rob Fordyce is a professional saltwater guide with nearly 20 years’ experience guiding anglers for big tarpon as well as permit, bonefish, snook, and many other saltwater gamefish. He grew up fishing in South Florida and the Everglades and won a Master Angler Award while still in high school. Widely regarded as one of the best tarpon guides in the Florida Keys, he has won or placed among the top three finishers in more than 20 premier tarpon fly tournaments, including the prestigious Gold Cup Tarpon Fly Fishing Tournament, the Don Hawley Invitational Tarpon Release Fly Tournament, and the Yamaha Outboards Women’s World Tarpon Fly Championship, most recently winning the Hawley tournament in June 2001 with angler John Tebbetts. He guides 300 days a year in a typical season and often presents seminars on saltwater fishing to sportsmen’s clubs. He is also a consultant for several boat and tackle manufacturers and recently produced a knot-tying videotape, No Wimp Knots, especially for saltwater fly-anglers. He has appeared frequently as a guide in saltwater fishing television shows, including Captain Rick Murphy’s Sportsmen’s Adventures on the Sunshine Cable Network, Shaw Grigsby’s One More Cast on TNN, and Flip Pallot’s Walker’s Cay Chronicles on ESPN.

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posted by admin on Dec 10

Editorial Reviews

Called the ghost of the flats, the silvery bonefish is the holy grail of flats fishing. Its speed in the water and chameleon-like color make it the ultimate challenge to catch, and because of its elusiveness, much of the joy of bonefishing is in searching for the fish. Finding bonefish from a skiff and while wading are thoroughly covered, as is catch-and-release. Details on the bonefish’s environment and its food provide the essential background, and you’ll learn what tackle and flies to take and how to cast efficiently in the flats.

About the Author
Chico Fern(ndez took his first bonefish on a fly rod in the late fifties and has been hooked on bonefish ever since. He lives in Miami and writes regularly for the saltwater magazines.

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posted by admin on Dec 8

Editorial Reviews

“There is nothing that you need to know about tarpon and pursuing them with flies that is not contained in this book.”
-Flip Pallot, in the Foreword
Tarpon On Fly draws from two primary sources-the observations and knowledge that come with Rob’s nearly 20 years’ experience as a professional tarpon fishing guide, and the journals and the curiosity of lifelong fly fisherman Donald who came late to tarpon fishing but has savored every hour of it. The knowledge and experience of these two men has led to the definitive book on fly-fishing for the Silver King. Tarpon On Fly includes: in-depth coverage of tarpon biology and behavior; tackle; rigging up; flies for tarpon; setting up to cast; aiming and casting; retrieving; striking; fighting; guides and anglers; tournaments; references; and so much more. Clear illustrations and photography further enhance this classic. We couldn’t have said it any better than Flip.

About the Author
Donald Larmouth began fly-fishing in saltwater after half a lifetime of freshwater fishing. A typical “tourist angler” in many respects, his saltwater fishing experience began with Flip Pallot in 1985, and he has fished with Rob Fordyce yearly since 1991. Though chronically infested with tarpon fever, he also fishes for snook, redfish, bonefish, jacks, and other saltwater game fish—as well as for trout, steelhead, salmon, small mouth bass, and many other freshwater species in the continental United States, Alaska, British Columbia, Ontario, Labrador, England, Costa Rica, and the Bahamas. He has also published articles in Salmon Trout Steelheader magazine and wrote a biweekly fishing column in Wisconsin’s Great Outdoors, drawing stories and anecdotes from outdoor journals he has kept since childhood. A former Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Graduate Programs, he retired in August 2000 as Professor Emeritus in linguistics and scientific & technical communication at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay.

Captain Rob Fordyce is a professional saltwater guide with nearly 20 years’ experience guiding anglers for big tarpon as well as permit, bonefish, snook, and many other saltwater gamefish. He grew up fishing in South Florida and the Everglades and won a Master Angler Award while still in high school. Widely regarded as one of the best tarpon guides in the Florida Keys, he has won or placed among the top three finishers in more than 20 premier tarpon fly tournaments, including the prestigious Gold Cup Tarpon Fly Fishing Tournament, the Don Hawley Invitational Tarpon Release Fly Tournament, and the Yamaha Outboards Women’s World Tarpon Fly Championship, most recently winning the Hawley tournament in June 2001 with angler John Tebbetts. He guides 300 days a year in a typical season and often presents seminars on saltwater fishing to sportsmen’s clubs. He is also a consultant for several boat and tackle manufacturers and recently produced a knot-tying videotape, No Wimp Knots, especially for saltwater fly-anglers. He has appeared frequently as a guide in saltwater fishing television shows, including Captain Rick Murphy’s Sportsmen’s Adventures on the Sunshine Cable Network, Shaw Grigsby’s One More Cast on TNN, and Flip Pallot’s Walker’s Cay Chronicles on ESPN.

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