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The Orvis Pocket Guide to Streamer Fishing: How, Where, and When to Use This Effective Technique

The Orvis Pocket Guide to Streamer Fishing: How, Where, and When to Use This Effective Technique
By Patrick Straub

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The perfect addition to the long-running pocket guide series.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #244739 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-04-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 160 pages

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From the Back Cover

Streamer fishing, especially for trout in rivers, is far too often overlooked and underutilized. Few anglers truly understand the rugged art of successful streamer fishing. Too many miss out on the slashes of silver darting through the water, chasing their Black Woolly Bugger, and never feel the heart-stopping take of a huge brown trout as it attacks a rabbit fur streamer.
The Orvis Pocket Guide to Streamer Fishing can help, adding to the fisherman’s repertoire the art of the streamer, with valuable advice on why the big trout go for the streamers, reading streamer-friendly waters, streamer techniques, tools of the trade, and proven patterns widely available at fly shops.
Author Patrick Straub, a guide for ten years, talks about casting philosophies, hand positioning, how to add line speed, the secrets of the tuck cast, how to master the skip cast, and un-snagging streamers. There are tips on retrieves, drifting techniques, and fighting big fish.
Straub takes a close look at the most popular streamer patterns, such as the Woolly Bugger, the Muddler Minnow, and the Mickey Finn, among others, and provides a survey of regional waters favorable to streamers, from Washington state to upstate New York, and Alaska to the Southwest.


Customer Reviews

Lots to learn from this book!5
This is a small book (physically) but is is filled with a huge amount of useful information and great drawings. If you've ever wacked yourself in the head (or worse yet, wacked a friend) with a big weighted streamer - and admit it, we all have - or if all you've ever succeeded in doing with streamers is scaring fish with your horrible presentation and retrieve, than this book probably has something in it for you. I wish all my days went like Chapter 5 in the book, maybe more of them will now!

Anyway, chapter 3 on techniques and tactics is the best one. If you spent lots of time on the river, then you might skim over the first two chapters on trout behavior and streams. But even though I fish a lot, I really liked the great photos of the streamers in chapter 4. Gave me ideas of what to try next time.

Streamer fishing is REALLY fun and this book is a great guide for beginner to intermediate flyfishers!