Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer: A Practical Guide to the Sport and Its Language

by Ed Quigley

Gain decades of fly fishing know-how from this handy volume! Whether you're new to fly fishing or just want to add some new "secrets" to your own bag of tricks, Ed Quigley's Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer has all the information you've been looking for in one handy volume. It's packed with easy-to-follow explanations of the basics plus ingenious tips and plenty of entertaining anecdotes culled from Quigley's years of experience fly fishing streams from Labrador to Costa Rica. When should you use emergers, caddis flies, midges, cripples ... and how can you often create them literally "on the fly" right there in the stream? How do you choose the best rod, reel, lines, waders and leaders? What's the real secret to playing a big fish? What's up with winter fishing? Quigley gives you all the answers along with advice on where to find more information on each web sites, articles, DVDs and books. He also includes a "must read" list of 95 fly fishing books with comments on what's most useful in each. Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer has it all! Plus an index and 88 illustrations and photographs. 

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Chris George · Rating 1 out of 5]

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.

[Phillip · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent reference work! Well written and enjoyable. Very helpful.