Nymphs for Streams and Stillwaters. This new book, released in 2009, provides a sound understanding of the relationship between naturals and their imitations, and between those imitations and the trout. You'll learn what nymphs you should spend your time tying, you'll learn how to tie them, and most important, you'll learn where and how to fish them in order to catch more trout.
Nymphs for Streams and Stillwaters is broken logically into four parts.
Nymph fishing has long been considered a complex and confusing subject, but this book makes it understandable, presenting the information that you really need to improve your tying and your fishing. Nymphs for Streams and Stillwaters will be your step-by-step reference to tying and fishing every nymph you'll ever need.
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8.5 x 11 inches; Hardbound
384 pages
995 color photos
$59.95
ISBN 978-0-8117-0472-4
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Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference. New and quite different approach to tying. Trout Flies is divided into three parts:
Part 1 gives the entire philosophy of fly tying, including an extraordinarily lucid "Unified Theory of Trout Flies."
Part 2 covers the full range of searching flies for trout: dries, nymphs, wets, and streamers.
Part 3 covers an infinite array of imitative fly pattern styles and variations that catch trout. Crisp color photos and clearly-written captions show and tell you how to tie each fly listed in the book. Trout Flies has been called the most useful pattern and tying book for the trout fisherman. It is the largest gathering of patterns for trout food forms--including insects, crustaceans, leeches and other things that trout eat--ever gathered.
The flies listed and shown in this book are designed to catch trout, not to put on display. The book sets your thinking about fly tying and trout fishing off in many new directions. You're after beauty in the eyes of the trout, not in the eye of the fly collector. Form follows function; the most beautiful fly is one that catches trout. Your goal is a fly that looks alive in or on the water, not while clamped in the tying vise. Your fly tying should always be rooted in what you learn when you're out fly fishing. This beautiful book will ensure that you make the connection between the fly and the fish in all of your fly tying.
If you are among the many who own Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer's important Fly Tier's Benchside Reference, then you'll benefit from this book as a companion to it, because it enables you to apply their methods to specific patterns that in turn let you go out and catch more trout.
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8.5 x 11 inches; Hardbound
480 pages
1,445 color photos
$75.00
ISBN 0-8117-1601-5
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Essential Trout Flies. How to tie the 31 most effective fly pattern styles for trout, and within each style, lists and shows in color plates the most important variations for your trout fishing. More than 200 fly pattern recipes in all, with step-by-step color photos, clearly written tying steps, and notes on how and where to fish each pattern style. Helps you reduce the infinitely complex subject of tying trout flies to its essence, and helps you choose and tie an elemental core set of flies that you can carry in a couple of fly boxes, and that will allow you to catch trout anywhere you might encounter them, on all kinds of waters, all across the continent and all around the world. Covers essential searching patterns and imitations. Includes dry flies, nymphs, emergers, wet flies, and streamers: every fly you'll need to go out and catch trout.
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8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound
96 pages
323 color photos
$21.95
ISBN 0-8117-2748-3
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$24.95
ISBN 0-8117-2748-3SP
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Trout Rigs & Methods. Clear and simple instructions and explanations describe 18 different and basic ways to rig your gear for trout, and 81 essential methods with which to fish those rigs. Covers creeks, streams, rivers, spring creeks and tailwaters, as well as lakes and ponds. For moving water, the book details rigs and methods for dry flies and emergers, nymphs, wet flies, streamers, and dry-and-dropper rigs. For stillwaters, it covers rigs and methods and line systems for dry flies and all manner of sunk flies. Covers gearing up for all types of trout fishing, on all types of waters, with all types of flies. No rig or method is left uncovered. Includes sections on casting, selecting flies, reading water and finding trout, and most of all, rigging and techniques to catch those trout.
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6 x 9 inches; Softbound.
384 pages
292 line drawings
$19.95
ISBN 0-8117-3354-8
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Handbook of Hatches. All new color edition. An introduction to the aquatic insects that trout eat, and that cause trout to become selective to imitations, at the simplest and most essential level: just the facts you need to know to collect an insect, observe its size, form, and color, and to select an effective imitation, and thereby catch trout. Handbook of Hatches omits the Latin and demystifies the insects and selection of patterns that match them. If fly fishing for trout that are feeding on aquatic insects has been a mystery to you, or if you're just getting into fly fishing for trout, this is the book you need to figure out what those trout are doing, and to catch them, when they're selective but you don't have time to study complicated entomology texts and fly tying tomes.
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5.5 x 8 inches; Softbound
288 pages
164 color photos
$21.95
ISBN 0-8117-3182-0
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Reading the Water. Teaches everything you need to know about trout stream structure, trout foods, and trout lies so that you can better utilize your time on the water by focusing on the areas most likely to hold trout. Covers the needs of trout, and the ways in which trout water meets those needs, thereby dictating where you'll find them in abundance. Covers the different kinds of trout lies: holding lies, feeding lies, prime lies, and perhaps most important, the types of water that are usually empty of trout, where you don't want to waste your time fishing. Breaks down and instructs how to read and fish riffles, runs, pools, pocket water, and bank lies in freestone streams, meadow streams, spring creeks, tailwaters, plus creeks, streams, small and large rivers. Ten percent of the fishermen are said to catch 90% of the trout. It's unlikely the numbers are that dramatic. But it's very likely that you'll catch a lot more trout if you learn to read the types of water in which they prefer to hold. This book will help elevate you into that percentage of more successful anglers.
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5.5 x 8 inches; Softbound
224 pages
20 b/w photos and 20 line drawings
$19.95
ISBN 0-8117-2263-5
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Fly Fishing Basics. Simply the best basic book, an introduction to all types of fly fishing, from the ground up. Covers everything from basic tackle and fly tying techniques to hooking and playing fish in stream, lake and saltwater. An easy-to-read reference. Covers rod and reel selection, the well-outfitted angler, basic and advanced casting techniques, and everything between that you need to know to get started in fly fishing.
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6 x 9 inches; Softbound
224 pages
255 line drawings
$14.95
ISBN 0-8117-2439-5
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Tactics for Trout. The key to successful trout fishing lies in knowing the full range of methods that work with dry flies, nymphs, wet flies, and streamers, and being able to call on the one tactic that is precisely right for the fishing situation in which you find yourself. This book teaches you to actively read the water and the situation, and choose the proper fly pattern, casting position, and presentation method to catch trout.
5.5 x 8 inches; Softbound.
224 pages
45 b/w photos and 33 line drawings
$16.95
ISBN 0-8117-2403-4
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Wet Flies. Tying and fishing soft-hackles, winged and wingless wets--flymphs--and fuzzy nymphs: Begins with comparisons between subsurface flies and the insects they resemble, and therefore the reasons they're so effective. Complete material lists and step-by-step instructions for tying soft-hackled wet flies, wingless wets or flymphs, traditional winged wets, and fuzzy nymphs.
The one book you must have if you have any interest in learning to tie and fish wet flies, or if you'd like to advance your knowledge about them, abilities to tie them, and the number of trout you catch on them. Based on long study of the natural insects, and the ways in which wet flies imitate them. Also based on friendships with Pete Hidy, author with James Leisenring of The Art of Tying the Wet Fly and Fishing the Flymph, and with Sylvester Nemes, author of The Soft-Hackled Fly and many other books about soft-hackles.
This book has become a cult classic among wet fly experts, and among those who desire to learn how to tie and fish these flies that have been left behind and even at times derided by less knowledgeable anglers, though there are many times when they're the most effective flies to take trout.
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6 x 9 inches; Hardbound.
240 pages
24-page color section; 152 b/w photos and 26 line drawings
$32.95
ISBN 0-8117-1868-9
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Taking Trout. The sheer variety of fly fishing environments and experiences covered in this book make it a worthy addition to your fishing library. Fishing canyon streams with midges; fishing stairstep step streams; how to prevent drag; fishing bank water and how to cast upstream near the bank; fishing slicks and pocket water and much, much more. This book contains five years of Dave's Fly Fishing Success columns from Fly Rod & Reel, plus many articles written for Field & Stream, Fly Fisherman, and other important magazines.
6 x 9 inches; Hardbound.
224 pages
$19.95
ISBN 0-8117-2906-0
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Big Indian Creek. Diary of a week spent backpacking and fishing on a small stream on the shoulders of Steens Mountain in Oregon, during an October storm. Includes thought-provoking observations on the fishing life and life in general. Takes you out there on the trip. One of those little cult classics that you must read if you haven't already read it. Considered by those who love it to be one of the literary masterworks on the subject of fly fishing.
5 x 8 inches; Hardbound.
96 pages
$19.95
ISBN 0-8117-0235-9
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Trout From Small Streams. Covers all aspects of fly fishing for trout on small streams. Dave describes how fishing is different on mountain, foothill, and lowland streams, plus freestone and and meadow streams, and how to develop the skills necessary to master each. Covers gearing down, not up, for small stream fishing, and a minimal fly box that lets you fish small streams with maximum freedom. Hughes's advice on casting techniques for small waters is especially useful, because trees and brush often require creative casts to get the fly onto tiny water where trout can get at it.
Based on decades of fly fishing small streams, from the hills of coastal Oregon where he grew up, to the Blues in North Carolina, as well as small streams in Chile, New Zealand and Japan--wherever he has fished, Dave has gravitated to small waters.
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6 x 9 inches; Hardbound.
176 pages
$16.95
ISBN 0-8117-0031-3
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American Fly Tying Manual. More people have learned how to tie flies from this book than from any other current fly tying and pattern book. Describes the materials, tools, and basic techniques of fly tying. Lists 290 fly patterns that are the most useful in fly fishing for all species: dry flies, nymphs, wet flies, streamers plus flies for trout, bass, panfish, Atlantic and Pacific salmon, steelhead, and saltwater. The one book that will get you started fly tying, and give you a comprehensive list of flies with which you can catch the widest variety of species.
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8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound
48 pages
All color
$9.95
ISBN 1-57188-212-X
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$12.95
ISBN 1-57188-212-XSB
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Western Mayfly Hatches. (co-authored with Rick Hafele.) All you need to know about all western mayflies, in all stages: nymph, emerger, dun, and spinner. Fly patterns and presentation techniques. Covers every important insect to family, genus, and species level. Distribution maps, emergence tables, and importance charts for every insect. The most detailed and thorough treatment of any order of insects ever written. It has been called the best angler's entomology book done in this country. Each stage of each insect is shown in color photos. Richard Bunse line drawings depict each nymph and dun. Jim Schollmeyer photos clearly show the fly pattern choices, usually suggestive, impressionistic and imitative for each insect, to give you the full range of options.
For each insect, coverage includes identification characteristics, habitat types, and behavioral habits, plus the best imitations, the water types in which to fish them, and the best ways to rig and present them. No western mayfly is left uncovered; you will find no finer source of information on all western mayfly hatches: how to identify them, what flies to fish for them, where and how to fish those flies to solve far more fly fishing situations.
8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound.
268 pages
300 color photos; 75 line drawings
$39.95
ISBN 1-57188-304-5
$60.00 Hardcover
ISBN 1-57188-305-3
$125 limited hardcover.
ISBN 1-57188-337-1
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Western Streamside Guide. A pocket-sized guide to the important hatches in the western states and provinces. Revised and updated and in all color. Photo of the insect, the best imitation, and notes on how and where to fish the fly. Compact and easy to read and to carry in the field. All you need to know when you get into a hatch, and want to solve it on the stream or lake.
4 x 8 inches; Softbound
136 pages
All color
$15.95
ISBN 1-57188-112-3
$24.95 Hardbound
ISBN 1-57188-124-7
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Western Hatches. (co-authored with Rick Hafele.) The classic, and still by far the most useful coverage of its subject: the entire range of aquatic insects important to western anglers. Covers recognition of the insect, plus its habits and habitat, then the best pattern for imitation, plus how and where to fish that pattern. Lists the key features of all western aquatic insects important to anglers. This is the book that started it all, and it's still the best book with which to start your recognition and imitation of western hatches. Covers mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, craneflies, dragonflies, damselflies, midges, waterboatmen, backswimmers, and beetles.
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8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound
223 pages
365 b/w photos; 41 line drawings; 24 color photos
$24.95
ISBN 0-936608-12-9
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$27.95
ISBN 0-936608-12-9SP
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Nymph Fishing. Emphasizes all that you need to know to fish nymphs effectively. The techniques and methods covered will guarantee that your nymph imitation will be fishing right. Includes dressings for the best nymphs for trout. Crisp text and dramatic color photos by Jim Schollmeyer. All the rigging techniques and fishing methods that will put you into business against trout. The most effective nymphing methods are shown in photo sequences, to help you sort out how to execute them on streams and stillwaters.
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8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound
56 pages
All color; photos by Jim Schollmeyer
$19.95
ISBN 1-57188-002-X
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Dry Fly Fishing. This well-written, all-color guide will help make you a very competent dry fly angler. Chapters on tackle, fly selection, casting techniques, fishing dry flies on moving water, lakes and ponds, and matching hatches over selective, rising trout. Introductory material is an excellent source for basic trout fishing, from outfitting yourself, to tackle, through casting and presentation techniques, to dry fly pattern selection.
In combination with Nymph Fishing becomes a very good primer to fly fishing, both of them illustrating all techniques in Jim Schollmeyer color photo sequences.
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8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound
56 pages
All color; photos by Jim Schollmeyer
$15.95
ISBN 1-878175-68-8
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Deschutes: River of Renewal. This coffee table book is filled with information about the river's geology, history, and especially fishing for both trout and steelhead. Explains how to fish the river with all types of flies. Special notes on fly patterns and techniques. 100 beautiful color photos by Jim Schollmeyer, Brian O'Keefe, and many others, plus fly plates and map.
8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound
96 pages
All color
$15.95
ISBN 0-936608-91-9
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Yellowstone River and its Angling. This coffee table book takes you on a journey to one of the world's finest fly fishing rivers, from high in the headwaters above Yellowstone Park, downstream through the Park and Paradise Valley and the Lower River to the end of trout fishing. Includes chapters on the Bighorn River and other tributaries. Captures the feeling of the river as well as its geography and history. More than 100 color photos, plus plates of flies tied by resident experts on the river.
8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound
96 pages
All color.
$12.95
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Fishing the Four Seasons. To catch fish consistently throughout the year, you must know where the trout are found, how to fish for them, and which flies to use during the various seasons: spring, summer, winter, and fall. Each is different, and this book covers the things you'll need to do differently in each season to become successful the year around. Originally published in the Lefty's Little Library series.
5 x 7 inches; Softbound
144 pages
All color
$17.95
ISBN 1-58574-234-1
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Matching Mayflies. Everything you need to know to match every mayfly you'll ever encounter. A very elemental introduction to the concept that you do not need to know the Latin name of a mayfly to select and effectively imitate it, and catch selective trout in the process. Covers nymphs, emergers, duns and spinners. Built around the concept that mayflies arrive in front of trout in a certain set of repeated color themes, size ranges, and consistent shapes that can be matched with size and color variations of a small set of fly styles. Tie a simple mayfly box of flies, and you'll be able to match them wherever you encounter them.
8.5 x 11 inches; Softbound
84 pages
All color
$25.00
ISBN 1-57188-260-X
Spiral-bound hardcover.
$39.95
ISBN 1-57188-261-8
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