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Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport
- Published by Honeybear Press LLC
Tackle: this chapter includes information about rods, reels, lines, floating lines, sinking lines, sink tip lines, shooting heads, leaders, leader length, flexibility, visibility, backing, vests, polarized glasses and other equipment.
Casting: casting grip, power stroke, backcast, forward cast, overall tips, points and advice, physical conditioning, false casting, tailing loop/sudden stop, stop, follow through, single haul, double haul, reach cast, tuck cast, roll cast, side arm casting, wind casting, unsnagging roll cast, posture, distance casting trajectories, practice methods, wind direction in your face, on your back cross winds, circle cast, off hand casting and backwards cast are the techniques taught. Lots of detailed audio and video including photos and diagrams are also included.
Aquatic Fish Foods: fish feed upon a great variety of water and land born nourishments. Learning about a variety of foods, matching the hatch, and video with audio showing you various fish foods and techniques to better your fishing experience.
Approach: different methods of approaching the fish including fish's position, water clarity, light intensity, hatch variables, current speed, wind, cover, casting obstructions, current maladies and sound vibrations are shown and discussed. Video shows you how to closely approach without detection.
Presentations: dry fly natural drift, Young's presentation, advantages of Young's presentation, downstream method, slide method, mini-slide method, upstream presentation, 7/8 upstream delivery, line mending, wrist roll mend, roll mend, shoot mend, still water dead drift, feeding lanes, wet fly swing, modified wet fly swing, lead core wet fly swing, riffling hitch, waking fly, grease line presentation, strike indicator-nymph fishing, lift, streamers and caddisflies, are covered in text, illustrated diagrams and lots of video.
Retrieves: a broad range of retrieves is needed to simulate the natural motions of aquatic foods. The strip retrieve, pull retrieve, hand twist, sink and draw, lift off and settle, rise and fall, wind drift, count down and skating, a table for the retrieves most useful with that particular kind of fish food including lots of show and tell video.
Stream Characteristics: streams are classified into 3 categories spring creek, freestone, and tail water. The stream characteristics which are covered are: riffles, current seams, prime lies, resting lies, feeding lies, deep holes and dead waters. These are described to help you identify them as well as picturesque video and stills at the end of the chapter for your viewing. Shows you where to find fish.
Still Water Characteristics: each lake is unique. Most of a lake's water is barren because its fish seek specific areas to reside. Shallows, weed beds, shoreline vegetation, drop-offs, channels, shoals, cliffs, outlets, inlets, springs, wind direction and drift lines, ice cover, plant cover, reservoirs, natural lakes, fishing strategies, beaver ponds and selecting alpine lakes are discussed including breathtaking video, stills and audible descriptions.
Aquatic Environment: components which relate to fish in their aquatic environment are aquatic plants, temperature, light, oxygen, ph, and surface film. Each is discussed so that the angler has a better understanding of the factors that influences a fish's behavior.
Wading: different kinds of wading equipment and suggestions for safety and avoiding a spill including text, diagrams, video and stills illustrating the principles of wading.
Float Tubes and Pontoon Boats: suggestions for access to good fishing areas with these light weight equipment options. Helpful safety suggestions and remedies are gone over including excellent stills and video footage.
Drift Boat Fly Fishing: benefits of drift boats and the best way to fish from them. Lots of colorful photos, diagrams and text for your benefit.
Knots: how to tie some of the most useful for a great fishing experience. Text, photos, visual and audio explanation for the most used knots.
Angler Etiquette: probably one of the most important chapters. There are plenty of beautiful areas to practice your sport. We all need to use the golden rule ("Do unto others what you would have them do unto you") when fishing so this wonderful activity.
- Published/Released: July 2007
- ISBN 13: 9780977670390
- ISBN 10: 0977670392
- Product number: 238270
- Page count: 239
- Shipping Weight: 0.00 lbs (0.00 kgs)
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