California's Best Fly Fishing: Premier Streams and Rivers from Northern California to the Eastern Sierra
California's Best Fly Fishing: Premier Streams and Rivers from Northern California to the Eastern Sierra
The best places and times to fish with detailed maps and hatch charts Top producing fly patterns with recipes Local guides and outfitters on techniques and tackle Whether you want to crack the code of Northern California's legendary wild-trout waters, learn the best floats on the Sac, or fish for steelhead, stripers, and shad on the American River, this guide is the best place to start for a successful fishing trip. With stunning photos, detailed maps and hatch charts for each river, photos and recipes of the most effective fly patterns, and insider information from local guides and outfitters, California's Best Fly Fishing is an essential reference for the best fishing in the state.
- ASIN: 1934753033
- ISBN: 1934753033
- Brand: Brand: Headwater Books
- Size: One Size
- Manufacturer: Headwater Books
Tenkara: Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing
Tenkara: Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing
Fly fishing is complex and costly with too much cumbersome gear, right? Well, tenkara’s different. Long overlooked in the West, tenkara is economical and simple, productive, and pleasurable This Eastern approach is today taking the fly-fishing world in North America and Europe by storm. Its tool kit is simple: a long, collapsible rod; a length of line tied to the end of the rod; and a fly. Without a reel, casting techniques become easy and intuitive. The gear is inexpensive and easily portable, perfect for hiking and camping.This pioneering book is an ideal guide to tenkara, covering the essentials of gear and rigging, the roots of tenkara, fishing dry flies as well as subsurface fishing and casting--as well as tenkara backpacking and tenkara for women. Tenkara has been the subject of features in Field & Stream, American Angler, and Fly, Rod & Reel magazines, and has been endorsed by the likes of Patagonia CEO and environmentalist Yvon Chouinard. Major retail outlets are now selling tenkara rods.
- ASIN: 0762763949
- ISBN: 0762763949
- Brand: Lyons Press
- Manufacturer: Lyons Press
High Sierra Fly Fishing: Basics to Advanced Tactics
High Sierra Fly Fishing: Basics to Advanced Tactics
The lakes and streams of the High Sierra have the primary element of good trout habitat in abundance, cold, well-oxygenated, unpolluted water. In this book, Billy shares the keys to success in California's High Sierra for both the beginning and advanced angler, including: how did the trout get there; geology of the High Sierra; trout science; equipment; casting; knots; flies; angling ethics; plus, how to fish the lakes, creeks; advanced tactics; planning your trip; camping info; and much more. Billy shares his hard-won secrets of success fishing the High Sierra so your next trip can be a great one!
- UPC: 066066004314
- ASIN: 1571882170
- ISBN: 1571882170
- Brand: Brand: Frank Amato Pubns
- Manufacturer: Frank Amato Publications
Fly Fishing Eastern Sierra Streams: where to go, what to use and how to get there
Fly Fishing Eastern Sierra Streams: where to go, what to use and how to get there
Fly Fishing Eastern Sierra Streams takes its readers to some of the finest, accessible streams and creeks in the Eastern Sierras. In addition to offering priceless information on fly fishing for wild trout, Mike discovered a way to incorporate personal fly fishing successes and tragedies in his writings. He also opens a few doors along the way, and shares some very personal accounts about the man that got it all started; his father.Fly Fishing Eastern Sierra Streams is a full-color guide book that will have you laughing one minute, and thinking of good times with your own dad the next. Mike's book will surely be appreciated by both seasoned veterans and first-timers alike. Come along and enjoy Mike's passion for catching wild trout with a fly.
- ASIN: 1420807536
- ISBN: 1420807536
- Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
Fly Fishing the Sierra Nevada
Fly Fishing the Sierra Nevada
From Lake Almanor's exciting hex hatch in the north to the lovely golden trout of Monache Meadows in the south, "Fly Fishing the Sierra Nevada" describes when, where and how to fish California's premier mountain range. Detailed maps and directions chart the way to hundreds of rivers, creeks and lakes that offer some of the best fishing in the state. No matter where you go, you'll know what flies to use and be privy to angling secrets that result from years of fishing the region. Toss in some history, geological background and a bit of humor, and the result is a book that will be on the must-have list of every trout angler who fishes California.
- ASIN: 096525660X
- ISBN: 096525660X
- Manufacturer: Aguabonita Books
The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner (Orvis Guides)
The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner (Orvis Guides)
This book, written with the support of America's oldest fishing tackle business, offers beginners a chance to learn the fundamentals of the great sport of fly fishing quickly and easily. The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing can be the start of a lifetime journey of discovery that will increase your intimacy with the natural world and allow you to gain skill and finesse in your fly fishing techniques. Proven teaching techniques and bright, helpful illustrations and photographs will enable new fly fishers to: * Select and assemble proper, balanced tackle * Cast a line with authority and accuracy * Chose the correct fly for any situation * Tie the two most useful fishing knots * Find fish in lakes, rivers, and salt water * and much moreHere are fishing ethics, helpful safety advice, basic angling terms, everything the new fly fisher needs in a crisp, helpful, and finely illustrated primer of the highest rank.
- ASIN: 1602393230
- ISBN: 1602393230
- Manufacturer: Skyhorse
Fisherman's Spring
Fisherman's Spring
“One of the 20th century’s most gifted angling writers” continues his seasons series with this philosophical and informational book about fly-fishing (The New York Times). From one of the most prolific and enlightening fly-fishing writers comes a book that’s perfect for both novices and experts alike. With Roderick L. Haig-Brown’s advice, fly-fishermen will quickly learn how to better select equipment; learn about flies, leaders, lines, rods, and waders, and their use under different conditions; discover the proper handling of a boat in fast water; find the cast that suits him or her best; and much more. Within these pages readers will learn about the abundance of spring life in the streams of British Columbia, while also enjoying Haig-Brown’s thoughtful musings about the rewards of fly-fishing. Filled with knowledge, Fisherman’s Spring showcases how the sport can enrich life with joy, adventure, and peace.
- ASIN: B00I2G75CU
- Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing
Trout Streams and Hatches of Pennsylvania; A Complete Fly-Fishing Guide to 140 Rivers and Streams
Trout Streams and Hatches of Pennsylvania; A Complete Fly-Fishing Guide to 140 Rivers and Streams
Pennsylvania is renowned for its well protected and uncrowded trout streams, and this guide has established itself as the trusted resource for resident and visiting anglers. Many of the 10,000 miles of classified trout water in the state is easily accessible from major population centers. But this massive, complete work also includes smaller "secret" streams in remote regions. This third edition has been completely redesigned, as well as updated and expanded. Fourteen streams have been added. Features include: extensive insect hatch charts keyed to each stream; advice on matching the batch with the right flies; local fly patterns; color photographs and detailed maps; at-a-glance headings for each stream that tell you how to get there, what to bring, regulations, and highlights.
- ASIN: 088150453X
- ISBN: 088150453X
- Brand: Books/DVD
- Manufacturer: Countryman Press
How to Fly-Fish
How to Fly-Fish
Rods, reels, lines, leaders, knots, flies, waders, and other equipment you'll need to start fly fishing Demystifies fly fishing and shows you how to keep it simple The ten most versatile flies for freshwater fishing, plus detailed illustrations that show necessary gear, flies, and how to tie knots Fly fishing has a reputation for being complex and difficult, and it can be both fascinating and intimidating to newcomers. This book covers the basic essentials of what you need to get started and then, when you're ready to take on more, shows you how to explore further. Soon-to-be fly fishers will find this a useful introduction.
- UPC: 011557031379
- ASIN: 0811731375
- ISBN: 0811731375
- Brand: Brand: Stackpole Books
- Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
Even Brook Trout Get The Blues
Even Brook Trout Get The Blues
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.“Once an angler has become serious about the sport (and ‘serious’ is the word that’s used), he’ll never again have enough tackle or enough time to use it. And his nonangling friends and family may never again entirely recognize him, either.” In other words, he (or she) will have entered Gierach territory. And fishermen who choose to brave the crowds at the big hold, commune with the buddies at the “family pool,” or even wade into questionable waters in the dark of night are sure to recognize themselves in Even Brook Trout Get the Blues.Whether debating bamboo versus graphite rods, describing the pleasure of fishing in pocket waters or during a spring snow in the mountains, or recounting a trip in pursuit of the “fascinatingly ugly” longnose gar, Gierach understands that fly-fishing is more than a sport. It’s a way of life in which patience is (mostly) rewarded, the rhythms of the natural world are appreciated, and the search for the perfect rod or ideal stream is never ending. It is not a life without risks, for as Gierach warns: “This perspective on things can change you irreparably. If it comes to you early enough in life, it can save you from ever becoming what they call ‘normal.’” Even Brook Trout Get the Blues will convince you that “normal” is greatly overrated.
- ASIN: 0671779109
- ISBN: 0671779109
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Size: One Size
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster