Fly fishing can be an incredibly exciting and rewarding activity, but it is also very challenging, requiring skill, planning, and perhaps a little bit of luck. Catching the big one requires plenty of preparation, from choosing the right gear to scouting locations and managing travel. Whether you’re fishing in freshwater streams or large bodies of saltwater, wading near the banks or drifting in a boat, The Big Book of Fly Fishing Tips &amp; Tricks is the one resource every angler should consult. Featuring vivid photos and lessons from renowned expert C. Boyd Pfeiffer, The Big Book of Fly Fishing Tips &amp; Tricks is loaded with information that will lead to simpler, faster, cheaper, and more effective fishing. It offers essential advice and step-by-step instructions on tackle; rigging your fly outfit; fighting, landing, and releasing a fish; casting under a range of different conditions; unsnagging ties; and more. Discover the wealth of tools and methods used to tie a wide variety of flies, with essential details on legs, tails, bodies, and wings. With full-color photos providing detailed illustration for hundreds of tips, tricks, and strategies, you’re sure to be fully prepared for every fly-fishing scenario and situation. No angler will want to be without this indispensible reference.

The Big Book of Fly Fishing Tips & Tricks: 501 Strategies, Techniques, and Sure-Fire Methods

Sports & Outdoors

PFEIFFER, C. BOYD

Hiking & Camping

MVP Books

The most thorough work ever published on making and caring for fishing tackle.

Complete Book of Rod Building and Tackle Making

Hunting & Fishing

LYONS PRESS+

Provides tips on fly fishing for bass, including advice on tackle, lures, casting, techniques, and fly-tying

Fly Fishing Bass Basics

Stackpole Books

200 illustrations, 6 x 9 Comprehensive but concise guide to tackle, flies, casting, species, tactics, habitat Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts Step-by-step fly tying and knot instructions "Boyd Pfeiffer excels at making seemingly complicated topics accessible to all skill levels. In Fly Fishing Saltwater Basics, Boyds no-nonsense writing, complemented by Dave Halls fine illustrations, will help teach you how to cast, how to find fish, how to tie flies - in short, how to become a well-rounded and successful saltwater fly fisher." Joe Healy, editor, Saltwater Fly Fishing magazine. 
The explosion in popularity of saltwater fishing has created the need for a comprehensive, affordable guide to every aspect of the sport. From choosing tackle and tying flies to locating and catching your favorite species, this illustrated reference is packed with information in an easy-to-find, easy-to-read format. Boyd Pfeiffers encyclopedic knowledge of fly fishing and his knack for clear explanation are enhanced by the drawings of noted angling illustrator Dave Hall.

Fly Fishing Saltwater Basics

Shad fishing

Since Pfeiffer wrote his first book on shad twenty-five years ago, much has happened to improve the fishery. The fish has made a comeback and shad fishing along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts continues to grow in popularity. Many fishermen launch the season by fishing in the early spring for shad. They've learned that shad make jolting strikes, long runs, hard fights, and high jumps. This complete guide covers the history and habits of shad and all the practical fishing on range, tackle for both fly fishing and spin fishing, and techniques for fishing on the shore and from a boat. This practical guide for taking this popular game fish on fly or lure is completely up-to- date and covers the latest developments in fishery and equipment. Includes patterns for 176 shad flies.

Shad Fishing: A Complete Guide Species, Gear, and Tactics

UNKNO

Gives advice on cameras, lenses, exposure meters, films, filters, lighting, composition, flash photography, and accessory equipment, and discusses field problems, and sports, wildlife, and close-up photography

The Orvis Guide to Outdoor Photography

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Trout anglers of all skill levels can easily make these 100 popular and effective trout flies. All fly-tying procedures are well illustrated, providing a sound base for the projects listed. Text includes lists of all materials and step-by-step instructions.
Tying Trout Flies includes patterns for dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, and streamers, with exceptional photography depicting the tying process. The book is designed to lie flat on the tying bench allowing for easy access to instructions and photos throughout the tying process.

Tying Trout Flies

Krause Pubns Inc

C. Boyd Pfeiffer, a noted flyfishing expert, provides easy step-by-step instructions for tying all types of flies designed to catch warmwater fish. This full color guide lists everything anglers need to create 75 great looking and effective flies to entice such warmwater fish as bass, pike, and panfish. Dozens of oversize flies are displayed in brilliant color, allowing easier viewing for anglers. Each fly includes background information, materials needed, and the tying sequence. Essential fly-tying methods are thoroughly reviewed, as well as required tools and tying materials. Perfect for all skill levels.

Tying Warmwater Flies

A step-by-step guide to tying simple flies quickly and easily, from a highly-regarded expert in the fly tying world. Boyd Pfeiffer has rightly become one of the most trusted names in the world of fly tying advice. His no-nonsense approach and his excellent, detailed photography make his work unique. Simple Flies takes a singular approach of designing and selecting fly patterns that requires no more than three materials for any one fly. This makes them both quick and easy. But, don't let that be confused with ineffective. These are flies that will catch fish all over the United States. Patterns include dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, streamers, terrestrials, surface bugs, and even saltwater patterns. No fly fisherman should be without it. Full-color throughout, index.

Simple Flies: Flies You Can Tie with Three Materials or Less (Exclusive of Hook & Thread)

Countryman Press

A fully illustrated, step-by-step guide to tying and fishing terrestrial imitations, from widely-known fly tying expert C. Boyd Pfeiffer. Never before has fly tying been made to look so simple. With full-color photos and plain-English instructions, this guide covers both basic and unusual designs and patterns for flies imitating everything from grasshoppers and cicadas to ants and inch worms. Armed with the proper tying tools and a vise, you can learn to tie with deer hair, foam, cork, balsa, natural materials, and synthetics to make realistic and imitative terrestrial patterns for taking trout, panfish, bass, and many other species. Pfeiffer provides special chapters listing the tools and materials you'll need, time-saving tricks and tips for tying terrestrials, and his methods and techniques for using terrestrial flies for all fish species.

Tying Terrestrials for Super Fishing: Tools, Tricks & Tips for Tying Everything from Grasshoppers to Inchworms

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