Fly-Fishing For The Clueless
Becoming a fly-fisherman can be ideal for those who enjoy the outdoors and a genuine communion with nature and are looking for ways to experience one of the most challenging sports ever. How to start? Fly-Fishing for the Clueless has all the answers about this hugely popular sport, so often shrouded in secrecy, confusion, and mystical mumbo-jumbo.

Beginners will learn everything they need to know about catching salt-water and fresh-water fish with a line, a hook, and an artificial fly. Here are the essentials -- from the insects that are imitated, tackle, knots, casting, and exercises. Here, too, are strategies for finding fish, and techniques for storing, cleaning, filleting, and cooking them once they're caught. There's also information on law, manners, ethics, and safety of fishing.

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Fly-Fishing For The Clueless
Becoming a fly-fisherman can be ideal for those who enjoy the outdoors and a genuine communion with nature and are looking for ways to experience one of the most challenging sports ever. How to start? Fly-Fishing for the Clueless has all the answers about this hugely popular sport, so often shrouded in secrecy, confusion, and mystical mumbo-jumbo.

Beginners will learn everything they need to know about catching salt-water and fresh-water fish with a line, a hook, and an artificial fly. Here are the essentials -- from the insects that are imitated, tackle, knots, casting, and exercises. Here, too, are strategies for finding fish, and techniques for storing, cleaning, filleting, and cooking them once they're caught. There's also information on law, manners, ethics, and safety of fishing.

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Fly-Fishing For The Clueless

Fly-Fishing For The Clueless

by Donald Henderson
Fly-Fishing For The Clueless

Fly-Fishing For The Clueless

by Donald Henderson

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Becoming a fly-fisherman can be ideal for those who enjoy the outdoors and a genuine communion with nature and are looking for ways to experience one of the most challenging sports ever. How to start? Fly-Fishing for the Clueless has all the answers about this hugely popular sport, so often shrouded in secrecy, confusion, and mystical mumbo-jumbo.

Beginners will learn everything they need to know about catching salt-water and fresh-water fish with a line, a hook, and an artificial fly. Here are the essentials -- from the insects that are imitated, tackle, knots, casting, and exercises. Here, too, are strategies for finding fish, and techniques for storing, cleaning, filleting, and cooking them once they're caught. There's also information on law, manners, ethics, and safety of fishing.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780806521961
Publisher: Kensington
Publication date: 06/01/2001
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.45(d)

Table of Contents

Prefacevii
Chapter 1What Fish Feed On--Insects, Minnows, and Other Things1
Chapter 2Fly Imitations for Fly-Fishing14
Chapter 3Fly-Fishing Tackle26
Chapter 4Knots and Tackle Assembly45
Chapter 5Fly-Fishing Accessories57
Chapter 6Fly-Casting63
Chapter 7Fly-Fishing Strategies, Reconnaissance, and Tactics75
Chapter 8The Kind of Fish the Fly-Fisher Fishes For86
Chapter 9The First Fly-Fishing Exercise106
Chapter 10Saltwater Fly-Fishing118
Chapter 11After You Catch the Fish129
Chapter 12The Clueless Chef Cooks the Fish139
Chapter 13Laws, Ethics, Good Manners, and Safety for Good Fishing150
Fly-Fishing Glossary161
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