Blood Knots

Author: Luke Jennings
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1620872951
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Blood Knots is a brilliant and dramatic memoir of an angler’s life. It places Jennings in the front rank of natural history writers. As a child in the 1960s, he was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his home. Beneath their surfaces waited alien and mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide, he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow, and for years, he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves, including an inspirational young intelligence officer, from whom he learned stealth, deception, and the art of dry-fly fishing. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. It would lead to bright streams and wild country, but would end with his mentor’s capture, torture, and execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling, about great fish caught and lost, but it is also about friendship, honor, and coming of age. As an adult, Jennings has sought out lost and secretive waterways, probing waters at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest, as always, is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface, he suggests in this most moving and thought-provoking of memoirs, can you connect with your own deep history. Jennings offers here a striking, elegiac narrative for lovers of unique memoirs and the finest fly-fishing literature.

Blood Knot

Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573640032
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description

Blood Knots

Author: Luke Jennings
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 184887748X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Book Description
As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it seemed to him, waited alien and mysterious worlds. With library books as his guide, he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. His progress was slow, and for years he caught nothing. But then a series of teachers presented themselves, including an inspirational young intelligence officer, from whom he learnt stealth, deception, and the art of the dry fly. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. It would lead to bright streams and wild country, but would end with his mentor's capture, torture, and execution by the IRA. Blood Knots is about angling, about great fish caught and lost, but it is also about friendship, honor, and coming of age. As an adult Jennings has sought out lost and secretive waterways, probing waters "as deep as England" at dead of night in search of giant pike. The quest, as always, is for more than the living quarry. For only by searching far beneath the surface, Jennings suggests in this most moving and thought-provoking of memoirs, can you connect with your own deep history.

Blood Knot

Author: Pete Fromm
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781558217447
Category : Domestic fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
With Blood Knot, award-winning author Pete Fromm confirms his place as one of the outstanding literary talents mining the natural world. In this powerful collection, he lures startling drama from seemingly still surfaces with ten of his finest fishing stories: a wedding in the ice-cold rush of a Montana river symbolizes the promise and fear of marriage, a young 'hood' shows his true colors when he takes his girlfriend's little brother out fishing for muskie, and an eight-year-old boy is moved cross-country, away from his father, only to practice knots on the bedpost in anticipation of their reunion and return to the river. Peter Fromm's tales bond his characters not only to each other but also to nature and the bittersweet truth of their very existence. Although the fish range from the smallest beaver-pond brook trout to the hulking, invisible paddlefish, in the end it's the people - as varied and vulnerable as the fish they pursue - who will draw you into their lives and hold on to a piece of you long after the stories end.

Practical Fishing Knots

Author: Geoffrey Budworth
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 160239993X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
The essential, full-color, step-by-step illustrated guide to tying more than seventy-five fishing knots.

Fishing Knots

Author: Lefty Kreh
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811734073
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Precise illustrations demonstrate each step. DVD features Lefty Kreh tying 30 of his favorite knots and reinforcing techniques in the text.

Field Guide to Fishing Knots

Author: Darren Brown
Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Press
ISBN: 9781932098037
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description

Knots:The Complete Visual Guide

Author: Des Pawson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 075669860X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
From camping to rock climbing, your safety depends on choosing and tying knots correctly. With this handy guide, you can tackle every task from DIY to tying fishing or sailing lines with complete confidence. Knots: The Complete Visual Guide presents the 100 most useful knots for sailing, fishing, camping, climbing, and decorative uses. It explains how to tie highwayman hitches, monkey fists, bowlines, and many other key knots. Its clear uncluttered images show you exactly what to do, taking you from the easiest overhand knot to the decorative Turk's head five-lead four-bight knot. This indispensable book identifies the knot you need. Are you climbing and depend on a failsafe knot? The figure-of-eight's distinctive shape makes it easy to check it has been tied correctly. A slipped-release is useful when you need to untie your knot quickly. And if you ever want to know if a knot has been untied, try the quirky "thief" knot - so-called because a thief will betray their presence by retying it incorrectly. You'll also learn the history behind the different types of knots and the fascinating stories behind how many of them came about. Knots: The Complete Visual Guide is the ideal book to have in hand for whenever a knot is needed.

Essential Knots and Rigs for Trout

Author: Joe Mahler
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811707164
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
- Handy, pocket-size guide of more than 50 knots and popular rigs - Full-color, detailed illustrations - All the best modern knots for fly fishing, and how professional guides use them Full-color illustrations, knots specifically for fly fishers and modern tackle, and detailed rigging information for nymphs, dry flies, and streamers are just a few of the things that make this knot guide different from the others. Each knot is meticulously illustrated with ample detail to actually teach you how to tie it, unlike some knot books that leave you guessing. Also included are leader diagrams, knot-tying tips and tricks, and information on rigging strike indicators.

Fly Fishing Knots- From the Reel to the Hook

Author: Andy Steer
Publisher: Andy Steer
ISBN: 9789071747205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Contains clear, concise, easy to follow step-by-step knot-tying illustrations of recommended fly and tenkara fishing knots and set-up. Knots and set-ups included in this 1st edition: Fly fishing knots set-up Arbor knot Albright knot Double overhand loop knot Loop-loop connection Castwell's leader knot Nail knot Needle knot Braided loop Surgeon's loop Perfection loop Loop-loop connection Blood knot Surgeon's knot Orvis Tippet Knot Speed Blood knot Albright leader knot Surgeon's knot dropper Sliding dropper Davy knot Double Turle knot Eugene bend Grinner knot Orvis knot Pitzen knot Kryston non-slip loop Lefty's loop Canoe Man Loop Tippet Size Fly lines Tenkara knots traditional furled line set-up Tenkara knots level line set-up Lillian knot Girth hitch Tenkara one knot Loop-to-loop connection Slip knot Figure 8 stopper knot Tenkara one knot Level line to tippet Tenkara one knot Yamamoto knot Improved clinch knot This publication should help you to gain a solid base of reliable, tried and tested knots, enabling you to land more fish. Protect the environment and save money by losing less tackle. Tight lines and strong knots. www.anglingknots.com Disclaimer: No responsibility in any way is accepted for incidents arising from the use of this material.