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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 344 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 655 g, 100 Halftones, color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Dec-2019
  • Kirjastus: Stackpole Books
  • ISBN-10: 0811737853
  • ISBN-13: 9780811737852
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 344 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 655 g, 100 Halftones, color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Dec-2019
  • Kirjastus: Stackpole Books
  • ISBN-10: 0811737853
  • ISBN-13: 9780811737852
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Fly fishers are always looking for useful, reliable, and trustworthy tips to improve their fishing. Veteran author and fly fisherman Skip Morris gives a year’s worth of practical tips for taking trout, large and smallmouth bass, and panfish from streams and lakes in a handy, easy-to-read and grasp format. Tips include info on casting, finding fish, rigs and strategies for using them, techniques, the right tackle, knots, hooking, playing and landing fish, releasing, fishing lingo and terms, and staying safe. For further help, the tips are illustrated with instructive line drawings and color photos.

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Skip Morris's 365 Fly Fishing Tips for Trout, Bass, and Panfish is packed full of great tips for beginner, intermediate, and advanced anglers. What makes this book great is the wide-ranging application to all fish species found in the U.S., not just trout. This well-organized and easy-to-read fly fishing manual should be on everybody's bookshelf. * author of Dynamic Nymphing and Strip Set * It's rare to find an author with the breadth and depth of experience that Skip Morris has, much less the knack for sorting jargon into detailed and useful cues. 365 Fly Fishing Tips for Trout, Bass, and Panfish parts the clouds for beginners and clears the haze for experts. Skip Morris, friends, has figured it all out. * editor and publisher of MidCurrent *

Introduction xiv
Chapter 1 Meet Your Fishes
1(5)
Tip 1 Meet the Trouts
1(2)
Tip 2 Meet the Basses and Panfish
3(3)
Chapter 2 Strategies And Tactics
6(72)
Tip 3 Know How Fish See and Hear and You'll Fish Unseen and Unheard
6(3)
Tip 4 Beware the Full Moon
9(1)
Tip 5 Fish the Close Water First
10(1)
Tip 6 Big Fish Prefer Big Prey
10(2)
Tip 7 Big Fish Do Take Smaller Flies
12(1)
Tip 8 Don't Just Fish for Fish---Hunt Them
12(2)
Tip 9 Read Those Rises
14(1)
Tip 10 A Trout Rise Isn't Always aRise
14(2)
Tip 11 Hook More Smallmouths
16(1)
Tip 12 Low Light = Good Fishing
17(1)
Tip 13 Low Light = Good Hatches
18(1)
Tip 14 The Light's Always Low in the Shade
18(2)
Tip 15 Sunshine Fishing Can Be Good
20(1)
Tip 16 Observation: Make It a Habit
21(1)
Tip 17 Fish May Be Close to Your Boat
22(1)
Tip 18 In Fishing, Timing Is Huge
23(1)
Tip 19 Rest Your Fish
23(1)
Tip 20 Here's How I Deal with Cruising Largemouths
24(1)
Tip 21 Attend the Evening Rise
24(1)
Tip 22 Understand the Evening Rise
25(1)
Tip 23 Each Fish Is an Individual
26(1)
Tip 24 Know Your Largemouth Retrieves and Your Smallmouth Retrieves for Hair Bugs and Poppers
27(1)
Tip 25 If You're Not Certain Where Your Floating Fly Is---Set the Hook
27(1)
Tip 26 Can't See Your Floating Fly? Try This, and This, and This
28(1)
Tip 27 Fish Should See Your Fly, Not You
29(1)
Tip 28 Know When to Look for the Take and When to Feel It
29(2)
Tip 29 Know the Length of Your Leader and Tippet
31(1)
Tip 30 A Steady Retrieve for Poppers and Hair Bugs Is Occasionally Best for Largemouths
31(1)
Tip 31 Smaller and Slower Can Be the Answer
32(1)
Tip 32 Learn Chironomid Fishing
32(4)
Tip 33 Try Chironomid Fishing Naked
36(1)
Tip 34 Chironomid Fishing Works with All Sorts of Flies
36(1)
Tip 35 Never Line Your Fish
37(1)
Tip 36 Close Means In Close
37(1)
Tip 37 Big Fish Are Often Loners
38(1)
Tip 38 Fish Memory Is Real---Use It to Your Advantage
38(1)
Tip 39 Here's How to Deal with High-Water Streams
39(1)
Tip 40 Fishing Can Sizzle Right After a Heat Wave
40(1)
Tip 41 Sight-Fishing = Bewitchment
40(2)
Tip 42 Nymph Streams Systematically
42(1)
Tip 43 Fish Where Your Anchors Were
42(1)
Tip 44 Plan Your Angle
43(1)
Tip 45 Try Fishing Around Boat Launches
43(1)
Tip 46 Try Nymphingjust Before the Hatch
44(1)
Tip 47 Fish Behavior May Change Just Before, During, and Just After Their Spawning---but Should That Matter?
44(2)
Tip 48 On New Water, Consider Hiring a Guide---a Good Guide
46(1)
Tip 49 Don't Always Rely on Guides
47(1)
Tip 50 Learn the Mega-Drift
47(1)
Tip 51 Never False-Cast Over or Near Your Fish
47(1)
Tip 52 Follow the Crowd, but Arrive a Little Late
48(1)
Tip 53 Learn to Recognize the Come-Back-Around Rise
48(1)
Tip 54 Here's a Stealth Fly-Presentation Trick
49(1)
Tip 55 A Breeze Can Save the Day
49(1)
Tip 56 Avoid the Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass Post-Spawn Slump
50(1)
Tip 57 Make Your First Presentation on New Water Count
50(1)
Tip 58 Here's the Deal with Selectivity
51(1)
Tip 59 Carry Two Rods, Three, More?
51(1)
Tip 60 Learn the Downstream Presentation
52(1)
Tip 61 Learn to Tell Selectivity from Moodiness
52(1)
Tip 62 Learn to Tell Selectivity from Spookiness
53(1)
Tip 63 Learn to Tell Spookiness from Moodiness
53(1)
Tip 64 Watch the Birds
54(1)
Tip 65 Adjust Your Tactics for Creeks
54(1)
Tip 66 Path-Rising Is a Miracle with a Blessing
55(2)
Tip 67 When Trout Don't Path-Rise, They May Still Rise
57(1)
Tip 68 Here's the Deal with Fast-Water, Slow-Water Trout-Stream Fishing
57(1)
Tip 69 Got Big Clumsy Bugs? Plunk Big Dry Flies Down Close to Trout
58(1)
Tip 70 Crazy Can Work (Sometimes, It Works Wonders)
59(1)
Tip 71 With a Floating Fly on Streams, Lead Your Fish
59(1)
Tip 72 With Almost Any Fly on Streams, Lead Your Trout
60(1)
Tip 73 With a Floating Fly on Streams, Time Your Trout
60(1)
Tip 74 Big Fish Aren't Big on Surface Feeding
61(1)
Tip 75 Sometimes, When Nymph Fishing a Stream, Linger
61(1)
Tip 76 Know When and How to Sink Your Tippet
62(1)
Tip 77 Become a Fly-Fishing Detective
62(1)
Tip 78 Detective, Start Looking for Clues Right Away
63(1)
Tip 79 Become a Scientist Too
63(1)
Tip 80 Half-Disturbed Trout May Move Only Halfway Down
64(1)
Tip 81 Here's How to Untwist Your Fly Line and Keep It from Tangling
65(1)
Tip 82 Bring It All
65(1)
Tip 83 Get a Fix on a Rising Fish
66(1)
Tip 84 Fish the Edges of Groups of Fish
66(1)
Tip 85 With Sinking Lines in Lakes, Keep Your Rod Tip Down
67(1)
Tip 86 With Sinking Lines in Lakes, Keep Your Rod at an Effective Angle to Your Line
68(2)
Tip 87 Try Indicator Nymphing the Hatch When Floating Flies Fail
70(1)
Tip 88 Respect the Edges
71(1)
Tip 89 Here Are Some Two-in-a-Boat Strategies
72(1)
Tip 90 Save That Nymph or Streamer
72(1)
Tip 91 Work a Shoreline Thoroughly and Thoughtfully
73(1)
Tip 92 Try the Mid-Depths for Trout
73(1)
Tip 93 Fish Where the Guides Don't Take Their Clients
74(1)
Tip 94 Find a Favorite Piece of Water and Learn It
74(2)
Tip 95 Fish Around
76(1)
Tip 96 Change Something
76(1)
Tip 97 Fish the Right Sinking Line for the Right Retrieve
77(1)
Tip 98 Keep Crimping
77(1)
Chapter 3 Techniques That Catch Fish
78(18)
Tip 99 Learn the Hand-Twist Retrieve
78(1)
Tip 100 Get the Most Out of the Strip Retrieve
79(1)
Tip 101 Get Indicator Nymph Fishing Down
80(1)
Tip 102 Find a Reason to Set with a Strike Indicator
80(1)
Tip 103 If You're Not Losing Nymphs, You're Nymph Fishing Wrong
81(1)
Tip 104 Raise Your Rod When Indicator Nymphing
81(2)
Tip 105 Give Czech Nymphing a Whirl
83(2)
Tip 106 There's More Than One Good Way to Pop a Popper (Two, Actually, at Least That I Know)
85(1)
Tip 107 Learn the Countdown Method for Lakes
85(1)
Tip 108 Avoid the Standard Trolling Mistakes
86(1)
Tip 109 Troll So That Your Fly Swims Naturally
86(1)
Tip 110 Use Your Trolling Time Wisely
87(1)
Tip 111 Beware the Trolling Tap
87(1)
Tip 112 Try Topwater Trolling
87(1)
Tip 113 Try a Floating Nymph on a Sinking Line
88(1)
Tip 114 Consider Tenkara
89(2)
Tip 115 Here's How to Fish Tenkara Style without a Tenkara Rod
91(1)
Tip 116 Animating Dry Flies Can Pay Off
91(1)
Tip 117 Try the Old Spider/Skater Trick on Trout
91(1)
Tip 118 Try Dancing a Dry-and-Dropper Rig
92(1)
Tip 119 If Your Line Isn't Moving, Neither Is Your Fly
93(1)
Tip 120 Smack Down Some Flies
94(1)
Tip 121 Learn Underappreciated Dapping, and Here's a Trick to Make It Go Smoothly
94(2)
Chapter 4 Casting---Delivering Fly To Fish
96(35)
Tip 122 Casting Is Key
96(1)
Tip 123 Pick a Grip
96(1)
Tip 124 Fly Casting Is about the Wrist, and Mostly about Not Bending It
97(2)
Tip 125 Keep Your Casting Strokes on One Plane
99(1)
Tip 126 Remember: Where Your Rod Tip Goes, So Goes Your Line (Except on a Drift)
100(1)
Tip 127 Halt! (and then, Maybe, Drift)
100(1)
Tip 128 Casting Is about Timing, Control, Grace, and Some Other Things---Not Really about Strength
101(1)
Tip 129 Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock
101(1)
Tip 130 Cast with Both Hands
102(1)
Tip 131 Turn Your Head, Watch Your Line
102(1)
Tip 132 Follow the Line Down
102(1)
Tip 133 Here's How to Work Line Out and How to Shoot It
103(1)
Tip 134 If You Fish Streams, Learn the Standard Slack-Line Casts
104(5)
Tip 135 The Tuck Cast Gets Nymphs Deep Fast
109(1)
Tip 136 Learn My Crash Cast
110(2)
Tip 137 Learn the Shepherd's Crook Cast
112(1)
Tip 138 Learn the Parachute Cast for Downstream Fish
113(3)
Tip 139 Learn the Roll Cast. Just Learn It
116(2)
Tip 140 Learn to Mend Line---It's Important
118(2)
Tip 141 Learn the Double Haul
120(1)
Tip 142 Try a Single Haul
121(1)
Tip 143 Learn to Deliver Your Fly on Your Backcast
121(1)
Tip 144 Practice Casting with Your Rod Down Sometimes
121(1)
Tip 145 Look Back Before You Cast
122(2)
Tip 146 Learn to Cast Across Your Chest
124(1)
Tip 147 Learn to Cast in Wind
125(1)
Tip 148 Slow Down, Smooth Out, Stretch Out, and Open Up Casts for Troublesome Flies and Rigs
126(1)
Tip 149 Start with Warm-Up Casts When the Pressure's On
127(1)
Tip 150 Prefer Short to Medium-Length Casts on Streams
128(1)
Tip 151 Don't Make Long Casts a Habit on Streams, but Don't Avoid Them Either
128(1)
Tip 152 If You Want to Fish Trout Lakes, Learn to Cast Long
129(1)
Tip 153 Learn the Art of Casting Short
129(1)
Tip 154 A Sort of Roll Cast Can Free a Snagged Fly
130(1)
Tip 155 Here's How You Determine Where the Slack Goes
130(1)
Chapter 5 Figuring Out Where The Fish Are
131(36)
Tip 156 Know Your Standard Trout-Stream Lies
131(6)
Tip 157 Know Your Standard Trout-Lake Lies
137(3)
Tip 158 Know Your Standard Smallmouth-Stream Lies
140(2)
Tip 159 Know Your Standard Largemouth-Lake Lies
142(3)
Tip 160 Know Your Standard Panf ish-Lake Lies
145(1)
Tip 161 Know Your Standard Smallmouth-Lake Lies
146(1)
Tip 162 Learn Standard Fish Lies First, Then Use What You've Learned to Find More Fish
147(1)
Tip 163 Fish Where Fish Are
148(1)
Tip 164 Fish Lies Can Change
149(1)
Tip 165 Think Like a Fish
149(1)
Tip 166 Don't Be Quick to Write Off Water
150(1)
Tip 167 Crowded Fish Offer Fast Fishing
150(1)
Tip 168 Whatever Holding Water You Get, Work With It (That's What the Fish Do)
151(2)
Tip 169 Fish Often Move In and Out of and Around in Streams
153(1)
Tip 170 In Lakes, Trout Move
153(1)
Tip 171 Expect Odd Flows from Tailwaters
154(1)
Tip 172 The Best Cover Often Holds the Lunkers
155(1)
Tip 173 In Summer, Fish Deep, Early, or Late for Panfish, Largemouths, and Smallmouths in Lakes
156(1)
Tip 174 Fallen Timber Appeals to Fish
157(1)
Tip 175 Try the Stream Mouths
158(1)
Tip 176 Foam Is Home/Food
159(1)
Tip 177 Lake Smallmouths Like Deep Water Nearby
160(1)
Tip 178 Cash In on the Crappie Season of Love
161(1)
Tip 179 Pocketwater Has Advantages
162(1)
Tip 180 Don't Be a Pool Junkie on Creeks
163(1)
Tip 181 Look for the Mud Line
163(1)
Tip 182 Smallmouths Love Weeds, Up to a Point
164(1)
Tip 183 Look for the Shady Rocks in Smallmouth Lakes
165(1)
Tip 184 Try the Shallows for Trout
165(2)
Chapter 6 Hooking, Playing, Landing, Handling, And Releasing Fish
167(17)
Tip 185 Try to Adjust Your Hook Set by Fish Size
167(1)
Tip 186 Embrace the Dry-Fly Pause
167(1)
Tip 187 As Soon as You Even Suspect You've Hooked a Good Fish, Get Sharp
168(1)
Tip 188 Play Fish with Constant Pressure, with Two Exceptions
169(1)
Tip 189 Play a Fish with Your Rod at a Right Angle
170(1)
Tip 190 Give Line to a Fish That Insists on Taking It
171(1)
Tip 191 Learn to Pump In a Fish
172(1)
Tip 192 Chase a Fish If You Must
173(1)
Tip 193 Control That Line
173(1)
Tip 194 Don't Reel In Line Unless You Need To
174(1)
Tip 195 Play a Fish on Your Reel Only If the Fish Makes You
174(1)
Tip 196 Play a Largemouth Hard, and Expect a Dirty Fight
175(1)
Tip 197 Play Crappies Lightly
175(1)
Tip 198 Net Right
176(1)
Tip 199 Playing a Fish? Keep That Line-Leader Connection Outside the Tip Guide
177(1)
Tip 200 Never Squeeze a Fish
178(1)
Tip 201 Turn Over a Trout
178(1)
Tip 202 If You're Going to Use a Throat Pump, Use It Right
179(2)
Tip 203 Consider Catch-and-Release
181(1)
Tip 204 Release Your Fish Right
182(1)
Tip 205 Consider Carrying Two Hook-Removing Tools
182(1)
Tip 206 Make Sure You and Your Fish Both Part Ways Unharmed
183(1)
Chapter 7 All About Artificial Flies
184(37)
Tip 207 Carry a Foundation Set of Flies to Trout Streams
184(2)
Tip 208 Carry a Foundation Set of Flies to Trout Lakes
186(2)
Tip 209 Carry a Foundation Set of Flies to Smallmouth Bass Streams and Lakes
188(1)
Tip 210 Carry a Foundation Set of Flies to Largemouth Bass Lakes
189(1)
Tip 211 Carry a Foundation Set of Flies to Panfish Lakes
190(1)
Tip 212 Let Flies Add Themselves to Your Fly Boxes
191(1)
Tip 213 Consider Tying Your Flies
192(1)
Tip 214 Flies Come in Types
193(1)
Tip 215 Understand the Elements of Imitation
194(1)
Tip 216 Keep an Open Mind about What Flies Imitate (Fish Do)
194(1)
Tip 217 The Elements of Imitation Change with Truly Tiny Trout Flies
195(1)
Tip 218 The Elements of Imitation Change with Truly Big Trout Flies #1
196(1)
Tip 219 The Elements of Imitation Change with Truly Big Trout Flies #2
197(1)
Tip 220 Imitations vs. Attractors---Which, When?
197(1)
Tip 221 Here's the Skinny on Impressionistic and Realistic Flies
198(2)
Tip 222 Seaworthy Flies Have Advantages
200(1)
Tip 223 Here's the Skinny on Tiny Flies
201(1)
Tip 224 Learn to Fish Streamers
202(1)
Tip 225 On Trout Streams, Carry Soft-Hackled Flies and Know How and When to Use Them---and Use Them
203(2)
Tip 226 Show Fish Something They Haven't Seen
205(1)
Tip 227 Trout Aren't Usually Selective about Nymphs
205(1)
Tip 228 Go Weedless for Largemouth, but Do It Right
206(1)
Tip 229 Half-Submerged Emerger Flies Have Advantages
206(2)
Tip 230 Know When to Fish Hopper Flies, and How
208(2)
Tip 231 Dunk a Terrestrial Imitation
210(1)
Tip 232 Don't Forget the Oldies
211(1)
Tip 233 Big Water Doesn't Necessarily Mean Big Flies
212(1)
Tip 234 Prefer Flies That Flip for Smallmouth Bass
212(2)
Tip 235 Long Flies: Good for Panfish
214(1)
Tip 236 Organize Your Fly Boxes
215(1)
Tip 237 Ride the Fence for Bass and Bluegills
216(1)
Tip 238 Sculpt a Fly
216(1)
Tip 239 The Glo-Bug Can Work Wonders, Often When It Shouldn't
216(3)
Tip 240 Break Off Your Fly without Breaking Your Rod
219(1)
Tip 241 Bend a Branch, Save a Fly
219(1)
Tip 242 Fish the Best Fly
220(1)
Chapter 8 What Fish Eat And (Most Of) Our Flies Imitate
221(34)
Tip 243 You Don't Need to Become an Entomologist to Match Flies to Bugs
221(1)
Tip 244 Meet What Trout Eat in Streams
221(4)
Tip 245 Meet What Trout Eat in Lakes
225(4)
Tip 246 Remember: Bugs Run All Ages and Sizes
229(1)
Tip 247 These Are the Main Tiny-Fly Insects and Hatches
230(1)
Tip 248 Some Mayflies and Caddisflies Cheat
231(1)
Tip 249 It Matters That Different Bugs Hatch in Different Ways
232(1)
Tip 250 Here's How to Connect with Insect Hatches
233(1)
Tip 251 When Trout Feed on Top, Here's How to Figure Out Which Bug They're Taking
233(1)
Tip 252 When Trout Feed on Top, Here's How to Figure Out Which Stage of a Bug They're Taking
234(1)
Tip 253 Hatches Can Matter for Warmwater Fishes Too
234(1)
Tip 254 Trout Love Dragonfly Nymphs---Use That
235(1)
Tip 255 Bass Love Dragonfly Nymphs Too
236(1)
Tip 256 Adult Dragonflies Can Make for Exciting Fishing
236(2)
Tip 257 Hatches Can Be Easy to Miss
238(1)
Tip 258 Hatch Density Is a Big Deal
239(1)
Tip 259 Insects in the Air May Only Be in the Air
240(1)
Tip 260 Here's the Deal with Instar Nymphs
241(1)
Tip 261 Damselflies Can Be a Big Deal in Trout Lake Fishing
242(2)
Tip 262 Catch a Sample Bug
244(1)
Tip 263 Net a Bug
245(1)
Tip 264 Bug Bodies Often Come in Two Main Colors
246(1)
Tip 265 Spinners and Failed Hatchers: Watch for Them, and Carry Imitations
247(1)
Tip 266 Smallmouths Crave Crayfish
248(1)
Tip 267 Take Advantage of the Insect Drift
249(1)
Tip 268 Swing Flies for Caddis Hatches
250(1)
Tip 269 Remember: Largemouths Don't Feed Often, but They Needn't Feed to Be Caught
250(1)
Tip 270 Don't Forget the Other Terrestrials
251(1)
Tip 271 Experience the Hex Hatch, at Least Once (or Twice)
252(1)
Tip 272 Know Your Shucks
253(1)
Tip 273 Don't Assume It's the Big Bug
254(1)
Chapter 9 Rigs, Rigging, And Tackle
255(41)
Tip 274 Line Your Rod This Way
255(1)
Tip 275 Here's Your Basic Dry-Fly Rig
255(1)
Tip 276 Here's How to Rig for Indicator Nymph Fishing
256(1)
Tip 277 Here's Your Basic Trout-Streamer Rig
257(1)
Tip 278 Here's Your Basic Smallmouth Bass Rig
257(1)
Tip 279 Here's Your Basic Largemouth Bass Rig
258(1)
Tip 280 Here's Your Standard Rig for Panfish---and Don't Go Too Light
259(1)
Tip 281 Rig Right for Trolling
259(1)
Tip 282 Try a Trailer Nymph Rig
260(1)
Tip 283 Take a Second Look at the Old Dropper Rig
261(1)
Tip 284 Drop Shot Makes Sense
262(1)
Tip 285 Know Enough Knots
263(2)
Tip 286 Embrace the Loop Knot
265(1)
Tip 287 When Tying Knots, Almost Anything Goes
266(1)
Tip 288 Tighten, Compress, and Retighten Knots (and Don't Trim Them Too Close)
267(1)
Tip 289 The Hat Trick
268(1)
Tip 290 Here's How to Shop for a Line, Rod, and Reel and Why They Should Probably Be a 6-Weight Combo
268(1)
Tip 291 You May Need a Clear Fly Line, or Just Want One. -
269(1)
Tip 292 Keep Your Leaders and Tippets Straight
270(1)
Tip 293 Keep Your Line Straight
271(1)
Tip 294 Consider Getting a Fish-Finder
272(1)
Tip 295 Match Your Tackle Not Only to Your Fish
273(1)
Tip 296 Here's the Skinny on Waders
273(1)
Tip 297 Here's the Whole Hopper-Dropper/Dry-and-Dropper Deal, at Least as I See It
274(1)
Tip 298 Fishing Lakes Usually Requires a Watercraft
275(1)
Tip 299 Here's How to Fish One Dry Fly All Day
275(3)
Tip 300 Understand Sinking Lines, Get One (at Least One), and Then Learn How to Cast It
278(1)
Tip 301 Stop Occasionally and Do a Tackle Check
278(1)
Tip 302 Keep That Fly Sharp
279(1)
Tip 303 Match Tippet to Fly Size
280(1)
Tip 304 Here's How to Avoid and Fix Twisted Tippet
280(1)
Tip 305 Adjust Your Tackle for Creeks
280(1)
Tip 306 Anchors Catch Fish (Indirectly, of Course)
281(1)
Tip 307 Keep Your Rod
282(1)
Tip 308 Boats Can Be Murder on Rods
283(1)
Tip 309 Here's the Lowdown on Ferrules
284(1)
Tip 310 Take Time Unwinding a New Leader
284(1)
Tip 311 Here's What to Do about Wind Knots
285(1)
Tip 312 Polarized Sunglasses Catch Fish
285(1)
Tip 313 Bring a Net That'll Handle Your Biggest Fish
286(1)
Tip 314 Here Are Two (Make That Three) Reasons to Replace Your Old Net
287(1)
Tip 315 Use Fly Patches and Fly Driers Correctly
288(1)
Tip 316 Water Vapor Is Evil
288(1)
Tip 317 A Wet Line Weighs More Than a Dry One
289(1)
Tip 318 Graphite's Great, but Fiberglass Still Has Appeal
289(1)
Tip 319 Why a Four-Piece Rod, Why a Five-?
290(1)
Tip 320 Cast a Rod Before You Buy It If You Possibly Can
290(1)
Tip 321 Long Tippets Have Advantages
291(1)
Tip 322 Forget or Lose Your Hook Hone or Don't Own One? Do This
291(1)
Tip 323 Try a Big Strike Indicator on Lakes
292(1)
Tip 324 Eventually, You May Want a Vest, Bag, or Box for Every Type of Fishing (or Not)
293(1)
Tip 325 Get Your Stuff Back
293(1)
Tip 326 Rebuild a Leader
294(1)
Tip 327 Here's How to Come Back Home with All the Stuff You Left With
294(2)
Chapter 10 Staying Safe Out There
296(5)
Tip 328 Just Wear Glasses
296(1)
Tip 329 Being a Wiener Beats Drowning
296(1)
Tip 330 Poke Around Before Stepping In
297(1)
Tip 331 Wade Wisely
297(2)
Tip 332 Protect Yourself from the Sun
299(1)
Tip 333 Consider Tying All Your Flies on Barbless Hooks
299(1)
Tip 334 Protect Your Neck and Ears
300(1)
Tip 335 Bring All the Clothing You Might Need, in Layers If Possible
300(1)
Chapter 11 The Practical Fly Fisher And Philosopher And Whatever
301(20)
Tip 336 Fish Hate Rules
301(1)
Tip 337 Everyone Gets Skunked
301(1)
Tip 338 Come Prepared, and Brace Yourself: Alaska Fishing Is Crazy
302(1)
Tip 339 How You Fish a Fly
303(1)
Tip 340 A Fly in the Air
304(1)
Tip 341 Get to Know Your Home Waters
304(1)
Tip 342 If You Want to Fish Your Home Waters, You May Need an Open Mind
305(1)
Tip 343 Consider These Strategies If You Bring Extra Rods
306(1)
Tip 344 Fish Know When You're Not Looking
307(1)
Tip 345 The Phrase "Fly Fishing Is Easy" Is a Lie
307(1)
Tip 346 Don't Fuss, Don't Fret---Just Fish
307(1)
Tip 347 Details Count
308(1)
Tip 348 Never Try to Outfish
309(1)
Tip 349 Don't Leave Fish to Find Fish
309(1)
Tip 350 Keep Fishing Notes, and Here's a Trick for Keeping Them During Trips
310(1)
Tip 351 When the Fishing's Hot---Keep Fishing
310(1)
Tip 352 Get to Know Your Fishes
311(1)
Tip 353 Waters with Multiple Species Offer Benefits
311(1)
Tip 354 You Must Both Do and Study in Order to Grow
312(1)
Tip 355 Could the Problem Be You?
312(2)
Tip 356 Watch and Wait for a Glory Day-Then (If You Can) Fish
314(1)
Tip 357 Regardless of Anything Else, Bring the Critical Stuff
314(1)
Tip 358 Destination Water Off? Change Water
315(1)
Tip 359 Chase Down the Gaps in Your Fishing
315(1)
Tip 360 Fish Creatively
316(1)
Tip 361 Try a Third-Day Escape
317(1)
Tip 362 Have You Soaked Your Wallet Yet? Of Course You Have! Here's How to Not Soak It (or Your Car Keys) Again
317(1)
Tip 363 Start Packing Early for a Fishing Trip
318(1)
Tip 364 Do Some Checking a Few Days Out for a Trip
318(1)
Tip 365 Learn, Explore, Experience, Improve---but Don't Fret
319(2)
Learn The Lingo: 140 Fly-Fishing Terms 321
Skip Morris is a full-time fly-fishing author and speaker who has published dozens of books on fly tying and fly fishing. Among them, his Fly-Tying Made Clear and Simple has become the standard beginners fly-tying guide. Skip lives with his photographer/illustrator wife, Carol, on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula.