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Gearing up for all types of trout fishing on creeks, rivers,
tailwaters, and lakes Casting, selecting a fly, and reading the
water and finding trout
Dave Hughes's clear and simple instruction and explanation
describes 18 trout rigs and 81 methods to fish them. In moving
water: rigs and methods for dry flies and emergers, nymphs, wet
flies, streamers, and dry flies and droppers. In stillwater: dry
flies and sunk flies.Fly fishers learn the specifics of the
rig--types of fly line, lengths and tapers of leader and tippet,
the flies, and split shot, putty weight, strike indicators,
droppers, point flies, and indicators--and the full array of
methods to present the rig to the trout. Hughes's lucid text is
teamed with hundreds of instructive illustrations, including those
showing how the trout views the fly. The more rigs you learn to
construct and the more methods you learn to apply, the more
situations you'll solve, and the more trout you'll catch.
Fundamentals for the beginning fly fisher including tips on rod and
reel selection, tackle and tying techniques, basic and advanced
casting methods, and more.
A brilliantly funny Christmas picture book that will make you laugh
out loud! Martha May has marvellous manners, especially at
Christmas - after all, that's the most important time of year to be
nice! So Martha writes very neat cards and gives very thoughtful
gifts... and she never forgets to leave delicious snacks for Santa
and his reindeer! But when Martha May gives Santa a giant Christmas
pudding, something very unusual happens. Oh no, what have you done,
Martha May?! Perfect for fans of The Dinosaur Who Pooped Christmas,
children will love this very silly Christmas picture book about a
very smelly Santa! Created by Dave Hughes, a much-loved Australian
stand-up comedian, television and radio presenter and Holly Ife,
who is a successful journalist and children's book author With
laugh-out-loud illustrations by the bestselling Philip Bunting If
you love Christmas, Santa and silliness, then you will love this
book!
If you fly fish, you need flies. Which ones to choose for taking
trout? Here are the 50 proven, go-to patterns that every trout fly
fisher should carry to catch trout almost all the time, anywhere in
the world of trout streams and still waters. From the hundreds of
trout patterns available to today's fly fisher, Hughes-in
quintessential minimalist style-cuts through the complicated
choices and gives a basic selection of essential trout flies that
fit in a fly box or two and cover the broad spectrum of trout
fishing conditions. This new edition-with 1/3 new material, 20
additional patterns, and 300 variations-addresses the changes in
fly preference over the last 15 years with some old patterns
dropped for new styles tied with new materials and tying
techniques.
Hughes takes a subject that has been considered complex and
confusing and makes it understandable, presenting the information
that you really need to improve your tying and your fishing. Nymphs
for Streams and Stillwaters is the step-by-step reference to tying
and fishing every nymph. Filled with good advice from a trusted
master of the subject, it is the most thorough and enjoyable book
about selecting, tying, and fishing nymphs that has ever been
written. Nymphs for Streams and Stillwaters provides a sound
understanding of the relationship between naturals and their
imitations, and between those imitations and the trout. You'll
learn what nymphs you should spend your time tying, you'll learn
how to tie them, and most important, you'll learn where and how to
fish them in order to catch more trout. Nymphs for Streams and
Stillwaters is broken logically into four parts. The first part is
an introduction to the way nymphing shapes itself with notes on
streamside and lakeside observation, nymph selection based on what
you observe, and recommendations on tools and materials for both
basic and advanced methods for tying nymphs that take trout. The
second part deals with the selection and detailed tying of all
sorts of effective searching nymph patterns for moving water. The
third part examines imitative nymphs for moving waters, tightly
relating naturals to their imitations. The fourth part covers
stillwater nymphs. Trout are more often selective in lakes and
ponds, and the things they eat in stillwaters are often unlike
trout foods in rivers and streams.
Most people who go fly fishing for trout practice the sport in the
spring and early summer, when most waters in North America offer
their most prolific hatches of insects, and the weather is
pleasant. In Fishing the Four Seasons, Dave Hughes shows you that
trout anglers need not limit themselves to such short seasons, and
indeed that fine fly fishing for trout can be had all year long. In
this ground-breaking volume, Hughes shows you: opportunities to
take big trout even in the dead of winter; how to prepare yourself
and your equipment for cold-weather fishing; why lakes and ponds
can offer some of the best trout fishing available in early spring;
how to catch trout in streams swollen with snowmelt; the best flies
to use for early, mid-, and late summer fishing; why autumn, though
often overlooked, can offer some of the year's best opportunities
for taking trout on flies. (5 x 7 1/2, 144 pages, color photos,
color illustrations, diagrams)
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