Orvis Vest Pocket Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets

Author: Tom Rosenbauer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493002554
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Every fly fisher knows how crucial leader construction and knot tying are. But with continual changes in line technology, what served as effective leader and tippet connections a decade ago might not be optimal now. By updating the original Orvis Streamside Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets, this handy take-along book addresses the technical issues surrounding leaders and connections in relation to state-of-the-art line materials and types, and details the best overall knots for fly-line connections. Staying connected to the fish just got easier.

Guide to Fly Fishing Knots

Author: Larry V. Notley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571881830
Category : Fishing knots
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book is helpful, instructive, easy to understand, and will help you bring more of your catch to the net. Larry includes: parts of your line; IGFA line test; tippet to fly size chart; knot-tying tips; terminology; knot applications; and of course, step-by-step instruction for joining lines, lines to flies, loop knots, dropper knots, and yarn indicator knots. Also included are basic fresh- and saltwater leaders and trout and panfish leaders. Twenty different knots are covered with concise text and simple, clear illustrations showing each step. These knots offer a solid base for your knot-tying arsenal. So whether you fish salt water or fresh, this pocket-size book is perfect for your vest, boat, car, or tube.

The Orvis Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets

Author: Tom Rosenbauer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493032844
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 169

The Orvis Guide to Stillwater Trout Fishing

Author: Phil Rowley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493040057
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
Lakes are one of the most challenging opportunities available to today's fly fisher. Stillwaters offer a long active season with numerous hatches and presentation challenges. Fish grow big and fat and many fishers find this appeal hard to resist. But the transfer from rivers and streams is often difficult, especially if a prolonged trial-and-error approach is adopted. This book examines the stillwater fly fisher's kit bag, expectations, and offers an introduction to the diverse stillwater food sources. The Orvis Guide to Stillwater Trout Fishing explains everything the aspiring stillwater fly fisher needs to be successful and build a sound foundation that will last through a lifetime plying stillwaters.

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

Author: Tom Rosenbauer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493025821
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns. How to choose and prepare the correct material, and all the necessary tying steps for each fly, are detailed in superb, large, color photographs. Even if you have no previous tying experience, you'll be able to tie dries, nymphs, streamers, saltwater offerings, and bass bugs after just a few sessions with this book. The tyer is then advised how to progress to similar patterns using the same basic techniques. Also included is a huge reference of fly patterns - more than four hundred flies from the Orvis catalog are shown in full color, along with the tying recipes and proportions for each one. This book, drawing from the Orvis Company's vast resources and teaching experience and written by an author whose name is synonymous with Orvis, has become the bible for fly-tyers of all skill levels.

Fly-Fishing Knots

Author: Creative Publishing International
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
ISBN: 9781589230668
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 2

Book Description
When learning how to fly fish, the special knots you need to be successful are sometimes difficult to master. And for many anglers, when a leader breaks out on the stream or you need to add a new tippet to your leader, it's almost impossible to remember how to tie the best knot. This Pocket Guide is the perfect tool for you to carry in your fly vest whenever you're out on the water. Included are easy-to-understand illustrations for making sure your backing, fly line, leader and tippet will not fail when you're fighting the fish of a lifetime.

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.

Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Completely Revised and Updated with Over 400 New Color Photos and Illustrations

Author: Tom Rosenbauer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076276242X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Now for the first time in full color, 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 the past two 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 Ultimate Guide to Fishing Skills, Tactics, and Techniques

Author: Graham Moore
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616085614
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 799

Book Description
Provides tips and information about many aspects of fishing, including knots, tackle, fishing boats, cooking, accessories, and includes fifteen personal fishing stories.

Fly Fishing

Author: Sally Crockett
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448846129
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
This book teaches the basics of rod, reel, and line selection, casting, fly selection and tying, and reeling in the big ones. It also offers secret tips on promising locations to find fish, how to "read" water, and what flies work best on what fish in what types of water and weather conditions. Safety and conservation issues are also discussed.