The Complete Fishing Manual

Author: Henry Gilbey
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756685273
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned angler, this illustrated manual will help you polish up your fishing skills. A lavishly illustrated companion complete with maps and information on best seasons and hot spots, The Complete Fishing Manual shows you the best places for fishing experiences. Helpful notes on choosing the right kit, tackle, clothing, and accessories help you prepare to be perfectly poised for a memorable affair with nature. The e-guide also goes beyond other books to cover strategies for fly fishing, coarse fishing, and game fishing. Featuring detailed tactics and techniques for both freshwater and saltwater species, and explaining the anatomy, behavior, and habitat of fish from all over the world, this indispensable volume gives you everything you need to improve your float, ledger, lure, and fly skills. With authoritative explanatory text as well as clear, detailed photography, The Complete Fishing Manual is an invaluable aid for keen anglers everywhere.

The Total Fly Fishing Manual

Author: Joe Cermele
Publisher: Weldon Owen
ISBN: 9781616288730
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the same team that brought you the Total Fishing Manual , comes the book fly fishing fanatics have been waiting for: The Total Fly Fishing Manual: 307 Tips and Tricks from Expert Anglers. The Total Fly Fishing Manual is the most comprehensive collection of expert fly fishing advice and up-to-date gear reviews. This book gathers the best tips, old school-techniques that still deliver and adds a wealth of new material. With high-quality design, intricate detail, and a durable flexicover—this manual is the perfect gift! Filled with over 300 hints from the best anglers in both salt and fresh water, the editors of Field and Stream give you everything you need to make the perfect pitch, find a secret spot and score a fish. TOOLS From the best flies of all time to the best reel for the job and when to change your hooks learn about the tools you needed for the job. As well as practical skills like tying a Palomar knot, how to unravel flylines, the five-minute fly, tying a clouser minnow, and how to lose the tailing loop. TECHNIQUES From old to new, everything you need to know to strike in the night, put a different spin on it, spot and stalk, shoot the breeze and find where they feed. TACTICS Put yourself in the best position for the catch: get up the creek for a late-season trout, find a secret spot, sneak up on more fish, fish headwaters for autumn trout, fish with your eyes, hook more rising fish, take the long shot, and dominate the shoreline. Whether you’re fishing for, salmon, bass or carp this guide will help you improve your technique, upgrade your equipment and hook your prize fish. Packaged in a durable, wipe-clean flexicover with metallic corner-guards, this practical manual withstands heavy-duty use indoors and out.

The Complete Guide to Freshwater Fishing

Author: Creative Publishing international
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1616739061
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
A manual for recreational fishing, with guidance on gear, rigging and information on the most common fish found in North American lakes and streams. The Complete Guide to Freshwater Fishing offers the nearly forty million freshwater anglers in the US with a comprehensive fishing resource. From the highly respected The Freshwater Angler series, this title covers all the major freshwater species in North America. It includes tips and techniques for catching gamefish throughout the country under every conceivable on-the-water situation. In developing this book, the writers, editors and researchers traveled from Alaska to Mexico to fish with veteran guides and nationally known tournament anglers. The tips and techniques they uncovered are fully explained and illustrated in the book. This giant book features: Over 500 spectacular fishing photographs that have never before been published. Extensive step-by-step visuals for learning every important fishing skill, including advanced fishing techniques for many species. The best how-to instruction ever found in any fishing book. Guide-tested tips from some of North America’s top experts.

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide

Author: Tom Rosenbauer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493025805
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Book Description
Now for the first time in ten years, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide appears in a revised edition that solidifies its place as the flagship title of the Orvis brand. A best-selling, fully illustrated, and comprehensive book, this large-format volume has been required reading for every angler for nearly three decades. Included here are instructions for tackle selection; casting and presentation; flies and their specific uses; successful techniques on stream, pond, or ocean; and the select tackle, flies, and methods for pursuing every major gamefish in fresh and salt water, from bass to bonefish, tarpon to trout.

The Scouting Guide to Basic Fishing: An Officially-Licensed Book of the Boy Scouts of America

Author: The Boy Scouts of America
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510742794
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 427

Book Description
In The Scouting Guide to Basic Fishing, current Scouts, Scout alumni, and anyone interested in the outdoors are provided with a step-by-step guide that masterfully breaks down the art of fishing with diagrams, vivid photographs, and lessons on everything the beginner needs to know, including: Different types of fishing equipment and how to select the best tackle Baiting techniques for artificial and natural baits Selecting the best fishing spot The many choices of boats, motors, and boating accessories Methods for cooking and cleaning your catch And so much more! Since 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has helped build the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. The BSA is committed to training youth in responsible citizenship, character development, and self-reliance through participation in a wide range of outdoor activities.

Fishing Basics

Author: Gene Kugach
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811730013
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Classic Kugach on bait, spin, and flycasting, to fishing rigs and fly tying in an illustrated format.

The Pocket Fishing Basics Guide

Author: Wade Bourne
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616082429
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Inroduces the basic principles of fishing, covering such topics as fish species, tackle, rigs, bait, artificial lures, fishing techniques, finding good spots, landing and removing fish from hooks, and safety practices.

The New Encyclopedia of Fishing

Author: Trevor Housby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780756618698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description

Because the Cat Purrs

Author: Janet Lembke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781602392243
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book displays Lembke's signature lyrical prose. Here she explores the dynamic relationship between man and beast, and calls readers to reflect on our interactions with all earth's inhabitants, big and small.

The Ultimate Fishing Guide

Author: Steven D. Price
Publisher: Collins Reference
ISBN: 9780062732903
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
For the 50 million Americans who fish on a regular basis, this is the one-stop reference to everything they'll ever need to know about fresh and saltwater fishing.