Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #226017 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

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Author Ray Bondorew presents a lifetime of knowledge about fly-fishing for striped bass, a favorite quarry among saltwater anglers. Bondorew covers technique, fly selection, and even related pleasures such as bird watching. As Lefty Kreh says, "we are lucky [Bondorew] shares his hard-earned lessons with all striped bass fishermen."

Customer Reviews

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Ray Bondorew's book is right on the money and contains a wealth of information in a slim readable format. His sense of the environment encountered while striper fishing is remarkable and his knowledge of waves, beaches, stripers and currents is presented in a way that conveys useful information to a fisherman.

I don't fault the choice of flies presented. Just because he was influential in the origins of the patterns doesn't mean that they don't work or that he is on some sort of an "ego trip"! He is an author presenting his view of how to fly fish in a given style, not a reporter trying to give "fair coverage" or write an encylopedia article.

His "unorthodox" choice of lines is also to be expected, given that he has fished for decades in Rhode Island. This is where the techniques using floating lines that he describes were first borrowed from salmon fishing and transferred to fly fishing for stripers. They are characteristic of certain regional approach to fishing.

For a flyfisher coming from the world of stream fishing for trout, these approaches based on line control and currents make perfect sense. They should be in the bag of tricks of all flyrod anglers in the salt. There is no one single correct way to fly fish for stripers, other than to master many techniques and learn some of the biology and oceanography that surrounds the sport.

The book does not attempt to provide an encyclopedic approach. Ray Bondorew's book is a well written explantion of how to apply a useful set of flyrodding approaches to fishing for stripers. It is a good read and a useful reference.

great...and simple book
this is a very readable, informative book. Ray cuts to the chase. the only reason i gave it a 4 instead of 5 stars is because I think his fly choices are too self-serving... no clouser or deceiver type paterns(come on!) but the flies he does have are great ones.

Ray tells all
Ray's book is my favorite on fly fishing for stripers. He keeps it simple, yet includes all the essential info that will get fish on your line. I can think of a couple of pricier hardcovers that take a lot more pages to go over the same info that Ray lays out in a much simpler and more homespun fashion. And despite a prior reviewer's opinion on the patterns included, any self-respecting Northeast saltwater flyfisher knows that the Ray's Fly is a classic along the New England shore. A must for any striper angler's bookshelf.