Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #178311 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 322 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780811733540
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Dave Hughes is the author of bestselling fishing books, including Essential Trout Flies (0-8117-2748-3) and Handbook of Hatches (0-8117-3182-0). He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Customer Reviews

STEPS UP YOUR FLY FISHING GAME!
I found this work to be what I was seeking: Specific, clear tips with details on situations I encounter fly fishing water that is special. The kind that you know hold great trout but you are unsure of how to get the fly into without a mess or disaster. Not for beginners. But ideal for the fly fisher seeking to take the time and effort to step up to the next level of success and enjoyment. Excellent sketches, better than photos for making points and giving tips. Fine use of the English language.

The Man Knows Trout and FlyFishing
I have fly fished for the last 20 years, mostly in the West, and I can say that this book is not for beginners as much as it is for more experienced fishers. Beginners may benefit from the information, especially since it is written in the author's easy to read style, however, they may not have an understanding of the material without having been on the water awhile.

This was a great refresher for me, having not fished that much in recent years. The format is easy to follow and helps keep the information organized, not just on the page, but in my head. There is so much good info that I will probably only be able to use a few new ideas each season. I was looking for a good practical guide and I am lucky I found this one. I chose it for the author, and am not disappointed. I expect to increase my success rate and the size of my catch just by using the Duncan loop!

Disappointing
This book is not about trout rigs as one would think from the title and chapter layout. It is a situational analysis, (primarily moving water), with some bits of information about leaders, methods and presentations. Even though the page headings begin with a rig name, there is usually little information about that rig.

I am disappointed; enough to feel that I wasted $13.57.

The book's content headings are poorly done. One does wonder why after so much effort to write so much, the author or editor couldn't take the time and trouble to page number all of the headings. Yeah, there are gems of information in the book; they are buried deep in wordy and frequently obtuse paragraphs and further lost in the un-numbered subchapters.

Again, I wonder just what the editor did in publishing this book. The writing wanders and there are blatant errors; for example, how does one get from step 2 to step 3 in tying the surgeon's loop on page 29? Answer: you can't; drawing two is incorrect. Drawing 3 is correct so follow it.

If you are looking for one book that describes many trout fishing situations and offers possible solutions (e.g. high sticking short pockets and runs, page 182) then perhaps this book will give you a rough idea of what you are facing and name some techniques that will help. If you are looking for specifics on trout rigs from leader theory to varied methods of constructing multiple fly droppers (especially with more than two flies), you will not find it in this book

I feel that the author has an incredible amount of information and experience he is trying to convey. But this book loses clarity when it reduces complex fishing situations to a couple of pages of rambling descriptions and solutions. These situations, techniques and methods deserve their own chapters, not just a few paragraphs.