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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting
Expert fly tier Skip Morris shows how easy it is to tie classic and
popular flies for all kinds of fly fishing, presenting basic
information on tying effective go-to flies in a clear, organized
way and giving advice for when tying goes wrong. Skip covers
nymphs, streamers, soft hackles, and dry flies with 16 classic
flies-Wooly Bugger, Mickey Finn, Black Ghost, Griffith's Gnat, and
many more. Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple is the primer for
learning how to tie flies-a time-tested classic.
This is a compendium of forty-five of Barry Thornton's best article
and columns on fishing with flies in the Northwest. Barry focuses
on three main angling opportunities -- saltwater fly fishing for
Pacific salmon, fly fishing for steelhead and still water fly
fishing for rainbow trout. These are the primary fishing sports in
the region and provide a worthy challenge for those anglers who
have been drawn to fly fishing. The anthology's lively and
easy-to-read style is complemented by a vivid thirty-two-page
colour section. Full of valuable information, tips on tackle,
amusing anecdotes and useful reminders, Fly Fishing will reel-in
readers in pursuit of trophy fish.
An introduction to 400 flies, making use of modern materials that
have revolutionized the art of fly tying in recent years. Each fly
is described and illustrated in full, including dressing and
comments regarding when to use it and how to fish it effectively.
There are patterns for reservoirs, lochs, small fisheries, gravel
pits and rivers; and for grayling, salmon and sea trout. There are
further guest contributions from international experts.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van
Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting
as "manly sport with the rifle." They also began writing about
their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and
adventure in the popular press (and creating a new literary genre
in the process). But why did so many of these big-game hunters
publish? What was writing actually doing for them, and what did it
do for readers? In exploring these questions, The Hunter Elite
reveals new connections among hunting narratives, publishing, and
the American conservation movement. Beginning in the 1880s these
prolific hunter-writers told readers that big-game hunting was a
test of self-restraint and "manly virtues," and that it was not
about violence. They also opposed their sportsmanlike hunting to
the slaughtering of game by British imperialists, even as they
hunted across North America and throughout the British Empire.
Their references to Americanism and manliness appealed to
traditional values, but they used very modern publishing
technologies to sell their stories, and by 1900 they were reaching
hundreds of thousands of readers every month. When hunter-writers
took up conservation as a cause, they used that reach to rally
popular support for the national parks and for legislation that
restricted hunting in the US, Canada, and Newfoundland. The Hunter
Elite is the first book to explore both the international nature of
American hunting during this period and the essential contributions
of hunting narratives and the publishing industry to the North
American conservation movement.
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