Bert Darrow's Practical Fly Fishing: How to Cast and Fish Naturally

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Bert Darrow doesn't just teach his students to fish; he teaches them to live the sport. It's an unusual, holistic approach that comes from thirty-five years of fly fishing, and nearly the same amount of time teaching it.
This long-awaited book includes the best of the "Dry-Fly Doctor's" approaches to fishing. To teach fly fishing, Darrow brings in elementsand analogies from every kind of discipline. Exercise, for instance. Few books or instructors stress the strenuous and aerobic nature of fly fishing, but Darrow understands how important being fit is to fishing right. He describes a simple exercise that will help any angler improve his cast. Or music. ...

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Overview

Bert Darrow doesn't just teach his students to fish; he teaches them to live the sport. It's an unusual, holistic approach that comes from thirty-five years of fly fishing, and nearly the same amount of time teaching it.
This long-awaited book includes the best of the "Dry-Fly Doctor's" approaches to fishing. To teach fly fishing, Darrow brings in elementsand analogies from every kind of discipline. Exercise, for instance. Few books or instructors stress the strenuous and aerobic nature of fly fishing, but Darrow understands how important being fit is to fishing right. He describes a simple exercise that will help any angler improve his cast. Or music. Darrow frequently uses music to teach casting, timing the back and forward casts to a 4/4 beat. Or sports. Darrow teaches the casting stroke the same way many tennis coaches approach the serve and the backhand. He also discusses the mental challenges of the sport-things such as focus and patience-in terms that would befit a sports psychologist.
It's an approach that has surprised many students, who, when they get to the river, are amazed at how much less time they spend untying knots and pulling flies out of trees, and how much more time they spend catching fish.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592284245
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/2005
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 1,015,868
  • Product dimensions: 6.28 (w) x 9.38 (h) x 1.11 (d)

Meet the Author

BERT DARROW has fly fished for more than thirty-five years, and has spent over 25,000 hours on rivers throughout the Northeast as well as Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. He has worked for conservation with the Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited for over twenty-five years, and is a longtime member of the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers. He has been teaching fly fishing since 1978 to beginning as well as intermediate and expert fly anglers. He has appeared on a number of television programs, including In Search of Fly Water on ESPN2, Red Hawk Outdoors on the Outdoor Network, as well as spots on Fox News and PBS. He lives in Kingston, New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
1 Why I Fly Fish 1
2 Choosing a Rod that Works for You 5
3 Rod Assembly and Transporting It Safely 15
4 Holding the Cork Grip 21
5 Casting: Preparing the Student 27
6 Force Used to Make the Cast Work 31
7 Creating the Loop 37
8 Initial Casts and Accuracy 45
9 The Tennis Exercise 49
10 Roll Casting 55
11 The Single Haul 63
12 The Double Haul 71
13 Shooting Line 75
14 Exercise Can Be Fun 83
15 Practice to Music 87
16 How to Put Slack in the Line while Casting 91
17 Mending Fly Line on The Water 101
18 Arrival at the Water 105
19 Aquatic Insects and Artificial Flies 109
20 The Dry Fly 119
21 Fishing with Nymphs 131
22 Fishing the Streamer 139
23 Fishing with Wet Flies 145
24 Playing and Landing Fish 151
25 Tough Trout 161
26 Getting Started with Useful Equipment 165
27 Fly Lines 177
28 Finding New Places to Fish 183
29 Our Fly-Fishing Expectations 187
Index 189

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  • Posted January 22, 2009

    fly fishing instruction from expert with 30 years experience

    Darrow imparts more than 30 years of fly fishing experience as both a fisherman and teacher. As in his instruction with innumerable individuals at all levels of the sport, he looks outside fly fishing for references and similarities readers can relate to to help them improve their skills smoothly and quickly. For example, Darrow stresses certain exercises for developing relevant physical motions and control for fly fishing. Listening to music can help a fisherman develop the right rhythm for casting. And the mental training practiced by many athletes has also found its way into the author's unique teaching method. Flies and equipment receive some attention. But the handbook is of most interest for its seasoned and thoughtfully worked out guidance by this author who is widely known in the sport and has received much media attention for his attachment to it and ability to teach others its finer points.

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