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Fly-Fishing Advice from an Old-Timer: A Practical Guide to the Sport and Its Language
With decades of fly-fishing experience, Ed Quigley is the perfect candidate to provide fly-fishing know-how to prospective flyfishers.
For those new to fly fishing as well as for experienced anglers looking to add some “secrets” to their own bags of tricks, Fly-Fishing Advice from an Old-Timer will illuminate the fly-fishing world. Richly illustrated and clearly written, Quigley includes down-to-earth explanations of the basics, detailed discussions of advanced topics, and ingenious tips and compelling anecdotes from his own years of experience fly fishing streams from Labrador to Costa Rica and beyond. Readers will discover:
When to use emergers, caddis flies, midges, and cripples
How to create flies literally “on the fly” right on the stream
How to choose the best rods, reels, lines, waders, and leaders
The real secret to playing a fish
The lowdown on winter fishing
And much more!
Along with his own personal advice, Quigley provides answers on where to find more information on each topic: websites, articles, DVDs, and books. His must-read list of fly-fishing books with his own comments on the most useful information in each ties together one of the most comprehensive fly-fishing books ever written.
For those new to fly fishing as well as for experienced anglers looking to add some “secrets” to their own bags of tricks, Fly-Fishing Advice from an Old-Timer will illuminate the fly-fishing world. Richly illustrated and clearly written, Quigley includes down-to-earth explanations of the basics, detailed discussions of advanced topics, and ingenious tips and compelling anecdotes from his own years of experience fly fishing streams from Labrador to Costa Rica and beyond. Readers will discover:
When to use emergers, caddis flies, midges, and cripples
How to create flies literally “on the fly” right on the stream
How to choose the best rods, reels, lines, waders, and leaders
The real secret to playing a fish
The lowdown on winter fishing
And much more!
Along with his own personal advice, Quigley provides answers on where to find more information on each topic: websites, articles, DVDs, and books. His must-read list of fly-fishing books with his own comments on the most useful information in each ties together one of the most comprehensive fly-fishing books ever written.
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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September 27, 2022
Opinionated old take on fly fishing....
Great information when he isn't ranting about the idiocy of barbless hooks and how idiotic he believes catch and release is and how the men before us did no wrong. At least he likes baseball hats. I can honestly say I'm glad I'll never have to fish with this person but instead get to pick his brain through reading and never have to actually talk to him. All in all decent info presented in a old conservative my generation did no wrong sort of way. Should be in trumps sports library next to his golfing books, assuming anyone in that fictional library could read.
Great information when he isn't ranting about the idiocy of barbless hooks and how idiotic he believes catch and release is and how the men before us did no wrong. At least he likes baseball hats. I can honestly say I'm glad I'll never have to fish with this person but instead get to pick his brain through reading and never have to actually talk to him. All in all decent info presented in a old conservative my generation did no wrong sort of way. Should be in trumps sports library next to his golfing books, assuming anyone in that fictional library could read.
May 22, 2013
Excellent reference work! Well written and enjoyable. Very helpful.
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