Bass fishing is an activity loved by many people around the world, either for serious fishing enthusiasts or for fun and relaxation. Learn the valuable tools and skills you need to take your fishing to the next level and get even more enjoyment out of catching more bass

Sprinkled in between the fly dressings and tying lessons are hundreds of illustrations drawn by longtime fishing guide Doug Stewart as well as personal stories and anecdotes. These are interesting and informative--each one containing an element of knowledge or instruction that will add to your fishing success.
The book's purpose is to help you become a more complete angler, a better fly tier, and a more successful fly fisher. It covers all aspects of fly fishing: casting, proper equipment, tying flies, reading water, the feeding habits of fish, and the proper strategy for fishing a stretch of river. Also included in the book are traditional and historical flies along with a selection of Doug's favorite patterns. Dressings and instructions are also presented.
Doug Stewart, a lifelong fly fisher, is also a fly-tying instructor and guide and a fly shop owner, and has written about fly-fishing for "The Oregon Sportsman "and Amato Publications. Doug spent many years teaching customers how to fly fish during the thirty-two years he owned Stewart's Fly Shop. "I think I get more out of teaching someone, out of seeing them be successful or catch their first fish, than I do out of catching my own," Doug says.

Climb aboard to catch a shark. Hook the big one and learn how it turned into an urban legend. Read about shark attacks and shark research. See these fearsome predators up close in a collection of photos snapped by an award-winning journalist.

The Names of the Sea-Trout, his last published collection of poems, confirmed Tom Rawling as a spiritual poet. Drawing on his childhood in Cumberland, his passion for trout-fishing and his relationship with his wife, he creates in these poems images that are full of resonances of a bygone era, yet are sharp, immediate and brilliantly luminous. This collection undoubtedly underlined Rawling's reputation as a thoroughly contemporary pastoral poet.

Shannon Olson is fascinated with the outdoors and has a passion for exploring God's country. His stories can touch your heart, make you gasp and definitely wet your pants. He divulges about his supper eyeballing him, parking his four-wheeler in a tree, pays respect to his old bird dog and even makes breaking bones a comical event. He has a unique way of ending up in near disaster situations and somehow always gets up laughing.

An introduction to the fascinating hobby fly tying for beginners. Material and equipment description. You get introduced in 5 lessons to the basics of tying dry flies, nymphs and streamers.

This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.

The book prepares fly fishermen to increase their probability of fishing success on any given day of the year in the Rockies. It provides details on the identification of the fish, understanding their feeding habits, types and conditions of water in any season. The reader will be armed with an understanding of the types and availability of the various major hatches and their metamorphosis. The book includes information on terrestrials, preferred temperatures, spawning patterns and recommended flies for each season or hatch for both subsurface and surface fishing. A removable field guide is provided for insect identification and suggested flies. Special treatment is also given to diverse subjects such as night fishing, nymphing, "catch and release" procedures, and Northern Pike and Kokanee Salmon fishing.

No book has taught or retaught more serious fly tiers the basic skills of fly tying than Helen Shaw's Fly-Tying. Shaw's simple and logical prose throughout and more than 250 life-size tying sequences make the various processes easy to understand, follow, and apply. Readers of Fly-Tying will learn every skill necessary to tie flies using many different materials, including: Thread Tinsel Floss Wool Dubbing Hair Quill Feathers Introductory chapters teach aspiring fly tiers about the tools of the trade, while a chapter titled "The Finished Fly" explains how to use what they have created. Learning the various techniques one-by-one throughout the text will help fly tiers of all backgrounds and levels of expertise to tie hundreds of different patterns. With a new color photo insert, foreword by David Klausmeyer, and note from Nick Lyons, a whole new generation of tiers will benefit from the reintroduction of this authoritative book more than fifty years after its original publication in 1963. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Ohio Made Fishing Lures and Tackle Expanded Edition picks up where Scott Heston's first book left off 8 years ago. The expanded edition features new companies and new information along with updated price guides for Ohio's collectable fishing tackle in a two book set. These books are a must read for collectors and offers everyone great incite into our fishing heritage. Part 1 covers 60 companies, both large and small, that helped to enhance our fishing experience.