Preface |
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An Introduction to the Greatest Sport on Earth: Why Fly Fish? |
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The Right Stuff: Essential Fly Fishing Equipment |
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5 | (34) |
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6 | (7) |
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Pick and Match to the Fish and to the Water |
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13 | (3) |
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16 | (8) |
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24 | (5) |
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Built-In Boots and Wading Boots/Shoes |
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Dress for Casting Success |
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30 | (2) |
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Carrying Arrangements: Fishing Vest vs. Fishing Pack |
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Accessories Make the Outfit |
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32 | (7) |
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Putting Your Best Fly Forward: Presentation of the Fly |
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39 | (20) |
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Differences between Spin Casting and Fly Casting |
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39 | (1) |
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The Basic Cast: Getting the Line Out |
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40 | (11) |
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General Things to Remember |
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Combining the Front and Back Casts |
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Roll Casting: Your Best Line Forward |
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51 | (4) |
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Adding Line to the Roll Cast |
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Serpentine Cast: Cut Yourself Some Slack |
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55 | (1) |
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How to Do the Serpentine Cast |
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Steeple Cast: Highly Effective |
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56 | (1) |
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How to Do the Steeple Cast |
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Reach Cast: Adjusting to Current Trends |
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57 | (2) |
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Seeing Past the Surface: Judging the Water |
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59 | (14) |
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Fish Are Only Human: The Search for Food |
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60 | (6) |
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The Nature of Feeding Fish |
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Food, Top and Bottom: The Bugs |
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Where a Fish Will Lie to Get Food ``Delivered'' |
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Look for Places That Might Produce Fish Food |
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Shelter and Safety: Covering Their Tails |
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66 | (2) |
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Predators In and Out of the Water |
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68 | (2) |
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70 | (3) |
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Knowing Your Bugs: The Study of Entomology |
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73 | (16) |
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74 | (2) |
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76 | (4) |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (1) |
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Adults: Orange and Yellow |
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83 | (2) |
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Terrestrials in the Water |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (2) |
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Puttin' on the Glitz: Attracting Patterns |
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89 | (8) |
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90 | (1) |
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How Attracting Patterns Work |
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91 | (1) |
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91 | (2) |
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Attracting Patterns You Should Carry |
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Attracting Patterns to Add Later |
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How to Fish Attracting Patterns |
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Ideas on Trout and Warm-Water Fish |
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93 | (4) |
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Putting Your Best Fly Forward: The Fishing Plan and Mending |
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97 | (14) |
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97 | (7) |
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104 | (7) |
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Mending Your Line on the Water |
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The Genesis of Fly Fishing: The Trout |
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111 | (14) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (3) |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (4) |
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When You Kill Fish, Consider |
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Bass, Bass, Largemouth Bass: Old Bucketmouth on a Fly |
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125 | (10) |
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126 | (9) |
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Warm-Water Fighters: Fighting Fish on a Fly |
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135 | (16) |
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Why Warm-Water Fish on a Fly? |
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135 | (3) |
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138 | (7) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (2) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (2) |
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Going Down and Deep: Fishing the Wet Fly |
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151 | (20) |
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153 | (3) |
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Successful Casts to Consider |
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156 | (4) |
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The Upstream Wedge with a Twitch |
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160 | (1) |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (3) |
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164 | (7) |
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Going High and Dry: Fishing the Dry Fly |
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171 | (22) |
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174 | (1) |
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Basic Dry-Fly Fishing Strategies |
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174 | (6) |
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180 | (4) |
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The Upstream Wedge with a Twitch |
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Casting to Fish You See Rising |
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184 | (1) |
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Casting Where You Think the Fish Might Be |
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185 | (4) |
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189 | (4) |
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Float Tubes and Other Stuff: Getting to the Fish |
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193 | (16) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (3) |
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198 | (3) |
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201 | (1) |
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201 | (8) |
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Basic Wet-Fly Fishing on Lakes and Ponds |
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Basic Dry-Fly Fishing on Lakes and Ponds |
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Casting Out and About: Walking with a Fly Rod |
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209 | (8) |
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Expanding Local Waters: Beating the Crowds |
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209 | (2) |
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211 | (6) |
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Index |
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About the Authors |
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