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.

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.

"We'd all rather be fishing than doing anything else. But if you can't do it, then reading about it is the next best thing. The Longest Silence is one of the best fishing trips I've had this year. " Jeremy Paxman, Daily Telegraph."Thomas McGuane, much-lauded American novelist, has spent over 50 years in pursuit of the catch and in the course of 33 short, dreamily episodic essays he succeeds in capturing the sometimes spiritual, sometimes challenging, occasionally amusing and more often than not enchanting world of the whenever-possible angler. Few are the works of literature which can successfully capture the essence of a sport. With this soulful and reflective work McGuane has surely created a modern classic" Scotland on Sunday"It is a meaty book, and an uplifting one, dazzling well-written. Just as I'd be a proud angler if I could catch specimens half as big as his 25lb sea trout from the Rio Grande, or his 18lb steelhead form the Dean, so I'd be a proud man if I could write a book half as good as this." Financial Times "Writing to die for" Daily Mail

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.

Are you a Carp Fisherman and want to create your own bait? If you fish for carp, then you fish for the most common species of fish in the world. The species is not native to Europe, North America or Australia as it originated in Asia and found its way around the world by migration or by introduction by man. In many countries, they are considered to be vermin and if caught should be killed and in other counties, they are part of the counties diet. In The Complete Angler, Walton said "The Carp is the queen of rivers; a stately, a good, and a very subtle fish; that was not at first bred, nor hath been long in England, but is now naturalized." In fact carp was spread through Europe first by the Romans and then by monks who kept them to eat on NO Meat Fridays. The carp has been successful in spreading to new territories due to its ability to tolerate a wide range of conditions: freshwater or the brackish waters of some estuaries, temperature of 35 to 85 F (1.6 to 29.4 C), still or fast flowing water and the ability to rout around the river bottom for many types of food.Carp seem to try anything that is put in the water with them as long as it has a flavor so that they sense it. They do learn from their mistakes so if they are caught on one flavor, they may ignore another bait of that flavor when it is presented to them again. Creating your own bait can save you money. To succeed in catching carp, you must present them with highly flavored bait and as an angler you can make your own bait in small quantities and try out different flavors to see which one works. Look in your kitchen cupboards and see what you can try - you may find a flavor that really gets the fish feeding.
Remember that in the winter, the fish may not be able to see as well as in the summer and oil based flavors do not leak into the water so easily, so adapt your bait flavor accordingly. Making your own bait can be cheaper than buying some at the fishing store (shop). You have the advantage of experimentation so you can find the flavor combination that attracts the big fish and the satisfaction of getting you next PB on a flavor no one else is using. Give it a go. To buy this book, press the BUY NOW Button and it will be sent to you. I have even put pages in the back so you can record your own mixes.

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.

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.

If you go to live on the Niger River in West Africa, don't forget your pole, your sense of humor, and your camera Provides answers to these important questions: How do you land an electric fish, and what if you screw up? What happens when a cobra tries to get in the boat? Which one lure will catch tigerfish, Nile perch, catfish, Tilapia, etc? Where do you catch a tigerfish, and then how do you deal with its teeth? When is a fish going to kill you if you eat it? Who might you meet, and what are they saying? A two-year account of sport and traditional fishing by a fish biologist Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa. This photo-journal contains 19,000 words and 140 black and white photographs. (Plus, get a FREE full-color ebook when you order from Amazon and select the MatchBook offer) Tigerfish opens with sport fishing, and details the author's pursuit of tigerfish, Nile perch, and other species including the dubious dodo. The second part is an account of experiences and observations made during the large community fishing events that take place in the waters of the floodplain during the dry season. The third section provides a brief description and numerous pictures of the life and work of small-scale commercial Somono fishers. The final section documents two traditional fire hunts on the Niger River floodplain. The quality of photos is better than most pictures of the Loch Ness Monster...