Orvis Wingshooting Handbook

Orvis Wingshooting Handbook
Author: Bruce Bowlen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1461748771

The Orvis Wingshooting Handbook is a concise and clearly written guide to the fundamentals and intricacies of wing shooting. Chapters include an analysis of field shooting versus skeet and trap; a discussion of basic techniques; how to choose the right gun; how to aim properly; safety and etiquette; tools you'll need; and more. Black-and-white illustrations throughout help the reader gain a more thorough understanding of Bowlen's tips and techniques.

Tactical Fly Fishing

Tactical Fly Fishing
Author: Devin Olsen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0811766039

Devin Olsen explains how the techniques he has used to become a repeat medalist in fly fishing competitions around the world can be adapted to everyday fly fishing situations. He covers strategies, tactics, and flies for rivers, small streams, and still waters, allowing anyone to fish more successfully by applying the approaches taken by competitive anglers.

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide
Author: Tom Rosenbauer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493025821

This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns. How to choose and prepare the correct material, and all the necessary tying steps for each fly, are detailed in superb, large, color photographs. Even if you have no previous tying experience, you'll be able to tie dries, nymphs, streamers, saltwater offerings, and bass bugs after just a few sessions with this book. The tyer is then advised how to progress to similar patterns using the same basic techniques. Also included is a huge reference of fly patterns - more than four hundred flies from the Orvis catalog are shown in full color, along with the tying recipes and proportions for each one. This book, drawing from the Orvis Company's vast resources and teaching experience and written by an author whose name is synonymous with Orvis, has become the bible for fly-tyers of all skill levels.

The Orvis Guide to Muskies on the Fly

The Orvis Guide to Muskies on the Fly
Author: Kip Vieth
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493040014

The essential Orvis primer on fly-fishing for Muskies, addressing every requirement of the sport and providing an excellent foundation for years of pleasurable fishing. It includes instructions for tackle selection; casting and presentation; flies; essential knots and how to tie them; successful techniques on rivers and lakes; and much more. Muskies are BIG and DANGEROUS fish, and the Orvis Guide shows you how to land these challenging monsters.

The Orvis Wingshooting Handbook, Fully Revised and Updated

The Orvis Wingshooting Handbook, Fully Revised and Updated
Author: Bruce Bowlen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493037501

Too many shotgunners imagine that their success in the field, or lack of it, is largely a question of innate ability and luck. Not true, say Bruce Bowlen and Dylan Snell, long-time Orvis shotgun instructors. Good shooting depends as much on effective technique as it does on natural talent, instinct, and favorable circumstances. With the proper instruction, bad shots can become good ones, and good shots will surprise themselves with how much better they can be. In this concise and clearly written guide to the fundamentals of the sport, the authors cover the basic elements as well as the intricacies of proper wing shooting. The correct stance, timing and motion, equipment, and safety procedures are described in detail. In addition, there are sections on field shooting versus clay-target shooting, how to lead, the master eye, gun fit, and much more. The updated text and illustrations contain the latest insights into the sport as it has evolved since the publication of the first edition more than twenty years ago. Maybe you shoot a great deal, or maybe you hunt just a few times a year, or maybe you’ve already decided to take lessons. In any case, The Orvis Wingshooting Handbook is your primer. For the cost of a few boxes of shells, you’ve got at your fingertips the techniques for making every shot count.

Dynamic Nymphing

Dynamic Nymphing
Author: George Daniel
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0811745627

Advanced tight line nymphing tactics, including Czech, Polish, French, Spanish, and American techniques.

The Orvis Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets

The Orvis Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets
Author: Tom Rosenbauer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493032844

Every fly fisher knows how crucial leader construction and knot tying are. But with continual changes in line technology, what served as effective leader and tippet connections a decade ago might not be optimal now. By updating the original Orvis Streamside Guide to Leaders, Knots, and Tippets, this handy take-along book addresses the technical issues surrounding leaders and connections in relation to state-of-the-art line materials and types, and details the best overall knots for fly-line connections. Staying connected to the fish just got easier!

Sporting Dog and Retriever Training: The Wildrose Way

Sporting Dog and Retriever Training: The Wildrose Way
Author: Mike Stewart
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0789324466

A comprehensive guide to transforming your dog into a valuable wing-shooting companion in the field and at home. Created by Mike Stewart of Wildrose Kennels, the Wildrose Way is a unique, low-force, positive training method that is field-proven for upland and waterfowl gundogs. The training prepares dogs for versatility—any game, any terrain, any destination—and makes them desirable companions for any situation. Now, for the first time, Stewart’s methods are compiled in one indispensable reference book, fully illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Containing chapters on establishing essential behaviors, the core skills of the hunting retriever, and waterdog finishing work, as well as sidebars on such topics as breed selection and effective canine leadership, this step-by-step book is designed specifically for wing-shooters who want to transform their pup into a gentleman’s gundog.

Robert Churchill's Game Shooting

Robert Churchill's Game Shooting
Author: Robert Churchill
Publisher: Down East Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780924357114

Robert Churchill wrote the definitive book on instinctive wingshooting for game birds and sporting clays. It quickly became a classic in the field. Friend and collaborator Macdonald Hastings, himself a renowned shooting coach, twice revised and updated Churchill's book.