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Essential Fly Fishing: Learning the Right Way and Improving the Skills You Have
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Essential Fly Fishing - an all-color handbook - presents the fundamentals of this great sport quickly and effectively. Proven teaching techniques and bright, helpful color illustrations will enable new fly fishers to: find fish in streams, lakes, and salt water; select and assemble proper, balanced tackle; cast a fly line with authority - with rhythm, not strength; recogni
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Paperback, 160 pages
Published
March 1st 2020
by Lyons Press
(first published September 1st 1994)
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An excellent and approachable introduction into the world and hobby of fly fishing. Perfect for any would-be angler who has just acquired their first rod and reel.
Well formatted, easy to read, and beautifully illustrated.
Well formatted, easy to read, and beautifully illustrated.
Nice place to start. Gives you the basic info you need to get out there without getting too complicated.
I liked this book it showed me many different flies to tye including some knew ones i learned it helped me learn what to tye your flies on i enjoyed this book
This book was wonderful, its what sustained me during long winters dreaming of a trout stream and during long summers of lazy pan fishing. It prepped me perfectly for our epic trips to the high country trout streams in Colorado. I got into fly fishing without the benefit of an experienced partner and the complications of the sport were beautifully simplified in this book. The paintings are beautiful and the writing is smart and quirky. To this day I remember this suggestion in paraphrase, When y
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A fast start for a lifetime of fishing adventures - with skill. Tom Meade is almost as knowledgeable as my brother! Bob White's color illustrations are inviting and reminiscent of A River Runs Through. I'm ready for my Montana trip in August 2012! Published by Lyons Press, I purchased at Restoration Hardware circa 1994!
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Excellent guide for beginning fly fishers. Simple, detailed explanations.
Not so hard to do according to him. Just throwing a potato off a fork. Its the lures that are hard.
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