Fly Fishing for Big Pike

Fly Fishing for Big Pike
Author: Alan Hanna
Publisher: COCH Y BONDDU BOOKS
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1999-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780953364817

The author specialises in catching good pike in the loughs of Northern Ireland. His principal method involves the use of a large buoyant fly (the Ballydoolagh Bomber) with a sinking line. Discusses tactics and tackle, pike in rivers and stillwaters, and describes the tying of Hanna's most effective fly patterns. This was the first British book on this increasingly popular subject.

Pop Fleyes

Pop Fleyes
Author: Ed Jaworowski
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2000-12-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0811743527

"The most innovative fly tier I have ever known." --Lefty Kreh on Bob Popovics "Bob Popovics has brought more creative ideas to the table in the last two decades than any other tier out there." --Dan Blanton This is the first and only book available on the tier whose techniques with epoxy and silicone revolutionized saltwater fly tying. The family of flies Bob Popovics developed over the last three decades (dubbed "Pop Fleyes," a spelling that incorporates part of his last name with the fact that eyes are a prominent feature in their design) have proven devastatingly effective for stripers, bluefish, false albacore, and many more species. This book goes beyond the basic recipe format to provide the thinking behind Popovics's pattern development, a guide to key tying techniques, and detailed notes on how to fish Pop Fleyes most effectively.

Hunting Musky with a Fly

Hunting Musky with a Fly
Author: Rick Kustich
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-02-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 081176544X

The most complete fly fishing guide to musky to date Musky, short for muskellunge, have been called the fish of 10,000 casts and are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, fish to catch on a fly. Musky have a large range--from northern Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and northern Minnesota through the Great Lakes region, north into Canada, throughout most of the St. Lawrence River drainage and northward throughout the upper Mississippi valley, extending as far south as Chattanooga in the Tennessee River valley. This much-anticipated book is the most complete guide to fly fishing for musky to date and includes fly patterns, wisdom, and local techniques from top guides around the country: Blane Chocklett (Virginia); Brad Bohen (Wisconsin); Chris Willen (Tennessee), and more.

Flytying for Beginners

Flytying for Beginners
Author: Barry Ord Clarke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2023-02-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1510771719

This is a guide book for those totally new to the art of tying flies. Until now, learning flytying from a book has not only been challenging, but often the cause of great frustration, with photographs or diagrams making even the elementary techniques difficult to grasp. Step-by-step images help a reasonably proficient flytyer understand the stages in making a fly, but for the new beginner, there will always be a gap between each step-by-step image, which can be bewildering. Seeing the manual maneuvers that take place in these pages can make the different between success and failure for a beginner. The techniques you will learn in this book are the building blocks for which all successful fishing flies, even the most complex ones, are based.

Mastering Pike on the Fly

Mastering Pike on the Fly
Author: Barry Reynolds
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781555662912

Barry Reynolds brings the art and science of flyfishing for northern pike to a new level of sophistication, giving pike anglers a true appreciation of pike and their environment and a full complement of strategies, tactics, and tools needed to locate and catch pike under nearly any circumstance.

How To Catch Big Pike

How To Catch Big Pike
Author: Paul Gustafson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-06-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1845286065

Now in its third, revised and extended edition, this book - a landmark on the subject - shows how you can consistently catch specimen pike when fishing rivers, lakes, gravel pits and lochs throughout the northern hemisphere. Distinguished pike fisherman Paul Gustafson, an experienced biologist as well as a gifted angler and researcher, shows how you can develop techniques that will catch bigger pike when fishing any location. He describes how to locate the biggest fish in a fishery, the best way of catching it, and how to apply various clever techniques and the most effective tackle to achieve greater success. His full-colour new edition includes new photographs and new, specially commissioned artwork. It covers the very latest scientific discoveries about how pike detect their prey through dedicated olfactory organs; how they use their specialised sense of smell; and what it is exactly that pike see - with obvious relevance to choice of lures. The author has also included new material on the fishing of loughs, lakes and rivers in Ireland; on fly fishing for pike; and on how to locate record pike in a new chapter written by Fred Buller.

Flyfishing for Coarse Fish

Flyfishing for Coarse Fish
Author: Dominic Garnett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Coarse fishing
ISBN: 9781906122386

There has long been a divide between flyfishing and coarse fishing - but there is no reason for it This book shows you how to fish in a new way, showing flyfishers and coarse anglers the benefits of both areas of the sport.

Fly-Fishing for Pike

Fly-Fishing for Pike
Author: David Wolsoncraft-Dodds
Publisher: Quiller
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-07-02
Genre: Fly fishing
ISBN: 9781846890543

Comprehensive and authoritative guide to the increasingly popular sport Techniques and tactics to help both the newcomer and experienced angler Catching pike on the fly "is the sport's most exciting development in years," according to the January 2010 issue of The Field Fly-fishing for pike is a relatively new sport, but it is generating enthusiasm and converts. This authoritative and comprehensive guide includes techniques, tackle, flies, and tactics that are tried and tested by the author and those he has converted to the challenge of catching pike on the fly.

Game Changer

Game Changer
Author: Blane Chocklett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781934753477

Game Changer flies have completely revolutionized how fly anglers approach pressured and wary fish around the world. Tied on a series of interconnecting spines, these flies can be drawn through the water with a serpentine swimming action or made to glide and jacknife in the water with hard strips--movements that predatory fish find irresistible. In this book, from one of the most creative and visionary minds in fly tying and fly fishing, author Blane Chocklett shares his tips and techniques for getting maximum movement out of these flies, both at the vise and on the water. In addition to covering popular patterns such as the Finesse Changer and Feather Game Changer, Chocklett traces the evolution of his search for the ultimate pattern, and takes readers along his journey of discovery, by beginning with his Gummy Minnow and ending the book with perhaps the most effective fly ever designed for apex predators, the Hybrid Changer. - Step-by-step tying instructions for 20 flies - Chapter covering hooks, shanks, brushes, and other critical materials - Fishing techniques, including tips on retrieves and casting large flies - Close-ups of Chocklett's favorite patterns - Detailed information on building brushes

Muskie on the Fly

Muskie on the Fly
Author: Robert S. Tomes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Fly fishing
ISBN: 9780974642758

Covering everything from selecting specialized tackle and flies to casting strategy, this definitive guide explores how to successfully fly fish for the elusive muskie. Fly fishermen discover how to turn frustrating follows into explosive strikes--no easy task as the infamously aggressive fish is tough to fool with any kind of gear, especially a fly rod and feathered hook. Both educational and inspiring, this handbook explores introductory and advanced techniques, the typical behavior of this violent freshwater fish, seasonal strategies, specialized tackle and fly patterns, and fly fishing basics. Exclusive interviews with top fishing guides and information on the best locations for catching muskie on the fly are also included.