Month: November 2012

New Fly-Fishing Book: ‘What Trout Want –The Educated Trout and Other Myths’

Quite simply this is the best book I have read on fly-fishing, and I have well over 100 books on fly-fishing in my bookcases. This simplified approach to catching trout, without the baggage of myth, pseudo-science, and self-serving BS is something I have tried to preach in my own books and articles – just wish I could write it half as well.

I don’t care where in the world you fly-fish for trout, read it and become a better fly-fisher.

whattroutwant

“In What Trout Want, Bob Wyatt busts one of fly-fishing’s biggest myths -selectivity- and teaches readers how to:

  • Simplify fly pattern design
  • Reduce the number of patterns needed
  • Improve presentation and stealth
  • Catch pressured trout

Catching trout simplified 

  • A brilliantly written and well-crafted exposĂ© fly fishing’s greatest myths-selectivity, matching the hatch, pressured fish, fish feeling pain, precise imitations, drag-free drifts
  • Recipes for the author’s tried-and-true patterns
  • Practical, down-to-earth suggestions for catching fish”
Posted by Tony Bishop in fly fishing, fly fishing how-to, trout information

Quick and easy way to check or change your fly

Tim Rajeff, master caster shows a simple way to check or change a fly without stripping in the fly-line. Safety tip: don’t try and catch the fly, grab the leader and of course always wear glasses as you do every time you fly-fish.

Posted by Tony Bishop in fly fishing how-to, Fresh water how-to

Five More Fishing Quotes and Sayings, now 1105: 17 Nov 2012

Five more fishing quotes and sayings, hooked out of the trillions of words circulating the planet; numbers 1101 – 1105

“A fly pattern is, in theory at least, an engineered solution to a problem, and in the past three decades or so these solutions have multiplied at a rate somewhere between impressive and staggering.”
– Ted Leeson

“In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I’m going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand  things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water.”
– Thomas McGuane

“In big water we often find ourselves lost in awe. But in small streams and rivers we are able to see ourselves.”
– Matt Smythe

“I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.”
– Perry Como

“Often, fishing and hunting are solitary activities but I have learned to see my time through other’s eyes and yearn to share the places where fish, deer and game birds live.”
– NA
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Posted by Tony Bishop in fishing quotes