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posted by admin on Apr 11

Editorial Reviews

"As caddis are the king of flying insects for Eastern fly-fishers, Thomas Ames’s book shouts ‘Long live the king!’ This is an amazingly complete reference on one of the bugs fly fishers most commonly imitate with flies."–Joe Healy, Fly Rod & Reel

"The sections on stream ecology and fishing techniques are the best since Gary LaFontaine’s landmark book and alone are worth the price of admission. The photographs and descriptions make identifying a caddisfly to the genus level as easy as using a standard field guide to the birds. Ames’s writing is just plain enjoyable to read, with crisp, clean prose and lots of the details that make for great natural history writing. I can’t wait for the next caddis hatch so I can try out all the new stuff I’ve learned!"–Tom Rosenbauer, Orvis Rod & Tackle

"This book is inspiring: it will inspire you to look more closely at your own caddis, wherever in the world you might fish for trout. And it will inspire you to tie some new patterns to match caddis and to get out there on water, where it all starts and ends, and put what Tom has taught you to use against the trout."–Dave Hughes, author of Nymphs for Streams and Stillwaters

* Stunning and detailed photographs of a wide range of caddisflies

* Caddisfly hatches and how to identify them

This book offers valuable tips on how to fish the hatch. Also fly patterns for caddisfly pupae, larvae, nymph, and adults. In the first major work on caddisflies in three decades, it presents the most complete pictorial survey of Trichoptera published to date. Author, angler and photographer Thomas Ames Jr. traveled from the southern Appalachian highlands to the Canadian Maritimes to collect, study, and photograph more than 100 species in 55 genera and 20 families of the caddisflies that fly fishers are most likely to encounter on the lakes and streams of the eastern United States. Based on thoughtful analysis, sound science, and many hours on the water collecting live insects and testing artificial flies, Caddisflies takes the myth and the mystery out of matching the hatch. Learn how you can use the ways in which these amazing insects have adapted to a wide range of aquatic habitats to predict which flies to choose. And learn how to present your flies when fish are feeding on caddisflies. Detailed descriptions and vivid photographs help identify the caddisflies on your favorite trout waters. This all-inclusive book includes advice on tackle and technique and a comprehensive catalog of 80 pattern recipes.

About the Author
Thomas Ames Jr. is a commercial photographer who lives, works, and fishes in northern New England. He is the author of the Hatch Guide for New England Streams and Fishbugs.

Order Caddisflies: A Guide to Eastern Species for Anglers and Other Naturalists: Thomas Ames Jr. form Amazon.

posted by admin on Feb 28

Editorial Reviews

*26 essential patterns, including the Charlie Boy Hopper, Quigley Cripple, Turck Tarantula

This book of practical fly design is for every tier, from beginner to expert. Tying Dry Flies presents traditional techniques and innovative patterns along with clear and concise instructions and photographs for flies that will work for all kinds of insects in all kinds of situations. It’s time to spruce up your fly box with these must-have trout patterns.

About the Author
Jay Nichols is the publisher of Headwater Books and editor of 1001 Fly Fishing Tips (978-0-9793460-1-9). He lives in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. Charlie Craven is president of Charlie’s Fly Box in Old Towne Arvada, Colorado. He designs flies for Umpqua Feather Merchants and was the fly tier and photographer for Barr Flies (978-0-8117-0236-2) and author of Charlie Craven’s Basic Fly Tying (978-0-9793460-2-6). Paul Weamer is a fly designer whose well-renowned patterns are distributed by the Montana Fly Company. He is the author of Fly-Fishing Guide to the Upper Delaware River (978-0-8117-3408-0). Mike Heck grew up fishing the spring creeks of southcentral Pennsylvania. He is an Orvis-endorsed guide, fly designer, and contributor to Fly Fisherman and American Angler. He is the author of Spring Creek Strategies (978-0-9793460-4-0).

Order Tying Dry Flies: How to Tie and Fish Must-Have Trout Patterns: Jay Nichols, Charlie Craven, Paul Weamer, Mike Heck form Amazon.

posted by admin on Feb 5

Editorial Reviews

Whether you’re in search of coastal fishing, heart-pumping rapids, or a refreshing dip in a mountain lake, award-winning outdoors writer Tom Stienstra offers the most complete resource to water sports and recreation at every lake, river, bay, and coastal port in California. Complete with updated information on facilities and fees, access points, and boating and sport restrictions for each location, Foghorn Outdoors California Recreational Lakes and Rivers details the scenic beauty, quality of boating, and diversity of recreational opportunities of over 400 bodies of water. A special chapter on California’s boating rules and regulations, a concise appendix of coastal access points and boat ramps, and detailed regional maps are also among the features of this comprehensive guide to California’s water-recreation areas.

Order Foghorn Outdoors California Recreational Lakes and Rivers: The Complete Guide to Boating, Fishing, and Water Sports: Tom Stienstra form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 15

Editorial Reviews

Review
John Barr is one of the best, most affable, and most innovative fly tiers in the United States today. We are fortunate to finally have his expertise in print. His flies will be used by all fly fishers who seek to improve their success onstream. –John Randolph, Fly Fisherman

In Barr Flies, John Barr shares his confidence patterns, the flies that he carries with him at all times to cover nearly every scenario an angler might encounter on the water. When used at an appropriate time with a good presentation, they are guaranteed to catch fish. Barr tells how he developed each fly, gives tips on when and how to fish them, and explains how he fishes multiple-fly rigs with the Copper John as the center of a 3-fly system that optimizes fish-catching potential. John Barr is the most successful designer of commercially distributed flies in the world. His Barr Emerger is an unrivaled pattern for western mayfly situations, and the Copper John has evolved into the most popular fly of the millennium.

Order Barr Flies: How to Tie and Fish the Copper John, the Barr Emerger, and Dozens of Other Patterns, Variations, and Rigs: John Barr, Charlie Craven form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 15

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist
This collection of 29 essays by the author of the Brady Coyne mystery series arrives just in time for the flurry of spring and early summer trout and bass fishing. In his eleventh fishing book, Tapply pursues trout throughout the U.S., Canada, and Patagonia. He stalks bass and striped bass across New England and travels to Guyana and Belize for permit, tarpon, and bonefish. Many of these essays revisit favorite topics from earlier work—teamwork, friendships, the joys of small trout streams and simple bass fishing—but they never feel repetitive. As always, Tapply shines in capturing a fishing locale’s ambience and in describing arcane fishing techniques clearly and simply, as he does here in reflecting on bass bug fishing and on short fly rods. He also writes affectionately and wistfully about his father, devoted angler H. G. Tapply, who died in 2002. Among fishing and nature writers, Tapply stands out for his assured prose, his good nature, and always solid angling advice. Rowen, John
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Review
Bill Tapply is a terrific writer and Trout Eyes is his best book yet. — Jay Cassell, Deputy Editor, Field & Stream

Bill Tapply is one of the great authentic voices of American angling–unassuming and funny, practical and wry. — Ted Leeson

Tapply is a writer with a fine eye and acute sense of place. — Boston Globe

Order Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly-Fishing: William G. Tapply form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Drawing on the Yale Anglers’ Journal’s first decade of publication, this solid collection of 50 short stories, travelogues, memoirs, scientific explorations, speeches and poems covers popular and obscure aspects of the sport: fly fishing, spin fishing and cane poling, along with catfish, striped bass and even the lowly sunfish. The Yale Anglers’ Journal was founded in 1996 by James Prosek, an upperclassman from New England, and Joseph Furia, a freshman from the West Coast, who bonded over their love of fishing and the written word. These two pursuits are the glue that holds together this anthology of well-crafted pieces from contributors including household names such as W.B. Yeats, President Carter and Christopher Buckley as well as less well-known writers like Furia. Prosek’s magnificent watercolor illustrations lend the volume a coffee table book-feel despite its slender size, making it a visually appealing gift for any fisherman, even ones that attended Harvard. Illus.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review
“The Yale Anglers” Journal is a triumph of literacy and enthusiasm, a combination rarely seen these days.”-Thomas McGuane, author of The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing (Thomas McGuane )

“What a fresh, varied, and thoughtful anthology this is! It collects the best essays, poems, and stories from the first ten years of the Yale Anglers’ Journal and is like no other basket of fishing-in-print I know. Perhaps its greatest virtue is that it is consistently entertaining.”-From the foreword by Nick Lyons (Nick Lyons From the foreword )

“One of the finest anthologies of contemporary angling writing I have read in the past 20 years. Tight Lines is full of interesting voices, vivid prose, and wonderfully original takes on the angling passion.”-Christopher Camuto, author of A Fly Fisherman’’s Blue Ridge, Another Country, and Hunting from Home and Professor of English at Bucknell University (Christopher Camuto )

“This is the liveliest collection of angling (and angling-related) pieces I have read in a long time. And we can be confident that James Prosek’’s wonderful watercolors, included as a bonus here, will be a part of the sport permanently.”-Ian Frazier, author of The Fish’’s Eye (Ian Frazier )

Order Tight Lines: Ten Years of the Yale Anglers’ Journal: Joseph Furia, Steven Hayhurst, Alexis Surovov, David Haltom, Wyatt Golding, Joseph Kingsbery, James Prosek form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

Sylvester Nemes is singlehandedly responsible for the popularity of the soft-hackled fly in American fly fishing today. The Soft-Hackled Fly, Nemes’s first book, written in 1975, was the catalyst for the resurgence. Now revised with ten new chapters on tiny flies and full-color photos, Nemes shares colorful experiences at home and abroad, the history of the soft-hackled fly, and illustrated step-by-step instructions for tying the flies. He also describes his technique of fishing the flies.

About the Author
Sylvester Nemes is author of The Soft-Hackled Fly Addict (0-8117-1671-6) and Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies (0-8117-0048-8). He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Order The Soft-Hackled Fly and Tiny Soft Hackles: A Trout Fisherman’s Guide: Sylvester Nemes form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

A thorough guide to the classification and identification of the larval forms of the insects that trout eat, all across North America, with highly detailed descriptions of the insects; includes over 80 recipes for tying artificial nymphs.

From the Inside Flap
Ernest G. Schwiebert published the first edition of Nymphs in 1973 but never ceased working on the project, and over the next thirty years he continued his research into the entomology necessary to successful trout fishing. Fly
fishers in the early twenty-first century are accustomed to myriad types of artificial flies and approaches to catch trout, but back when there were still many anglers who populated a rules-bound world of dry flies and traditional wet flies, what Schwiebert said in the first edition of this book was novel and heretical. Vincent Marinaro, author of that touchstone American text, A Modern Dry-Fly Code, and hero to Schwiebert, refused to speak with the younger writer after Nymphs first appeared, as this new book promoted a violation of form that was unacceptable to the gentleman of the Letort Spring Run. Schwiebert, however, stood solidly behind his methods of identifying, tying, and fishing imitations of nymphs, a
revolution in the sport. Ultimately, critics hailed his highly original book as a landmark achievement in both the art and science of fly fishing, and thousands of anglers today carry fly boxes crammed with nymphs of various sizes and colors.
Now, the classic text has been fully revised and greatly expanded—in two volumes—and includes taxonomic details of multitudes of individual nymphs from many different insect genera, hundreds of recipes for imitations, and digitally remastered original illustrations and numerous new illustrations by the author. Schwiebert backs his text with authoritative support from the classic work of numerous entomologists, such as James Needham, Justin Leonard, Jay Traver, and George Edmunds, and colors it with his stories of fishing with legends of the sport, including John Hemingway, Charlie Fox, and Joe Brooks. This new Nymphs calls upon decades of angling experience—years that connect extraordinarily different eras of fly-fishing—to present a lasting, highly usable angler’s entomology for all of North America.

Order Nymphs Volume I: The Mayflies: The Major Species: Ernest G. Schwiebert form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

In his newest book, Dave Hughes covers all aspects of fly-fishing for trout on small streams. He describes how fishing is different on mountain, freestone, and meadow streams and how to develop skills for each. He covers the gear, including what to put in a small stream fly box. Hughes’ advice on casting technique is especially useful because trees and brush often require different kinds of casts for small streams.

About the Author
Dave Hughes is the author of more than 25 fishing books, including “Essential Trout Flies” (0811727483) and “Taking Trout” (0811729060). He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughter.

Order Trout from Small Streams: Dave Hughes form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

The most highly prized of all North American gamefish deserves a book like Trout: The Complete Guide - New Revised Edition

Trout is the most popular species for fly anglers. The avid angler is looking for good fish biology as well as strategies and skills. More than 350 photos complement the clear, concise, how-to text. Here is everything you need to know to successfully choose the right presentation for any situation on the trout stream, inlcuding catching trout with flies, artificial lures and live bait.

Chapters include:

• Understanding Trout & Salmon
• Equipment
• Fly Fishing Techniques
• Spinning & Baitcasting
• Hooking, Playing & Landing
• Techniques for Special Waters
• Fishing for Trophies
• Catch-and-Release
• Blue-Ribbon Trout Streams

About the Author
John van Vliet (Minneapolis, MN) grew up fishing in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and honed his skills on the creeks of Southeastern Minnesota, An accomplished flytier and fly-fishing instructor, he has written extensively on fishing for trout, including his most recent book The Art of Fly Tying.

Order Trout: The Complete Guide to Catching Trout with Flies, Artificial Lures and Live Bait (The Freshwater Angler): John van Vliet form Amazon.