9783899556742 - the fly fisher: the essence and essentials of flyfishing (1 Ergebnisse)
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 2017). 2017 1st edition. 4to (244 x 305mm). Pp256. Colour photographs throughout. Laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper. Corners slightly bumped, some use but a very good second-hand copy. "Fishing combines connecting with natu…re, the defining of personal aesthetics, and physical activity. The Fly Fisher shows the most beautiful fishing spots, self-tied flies, and the right equipment for this increasingly popular lark of leisure." The first half of this book consists of a basic introduction to flyfishing. The second half consists of articles about individual anglers who have caught the author's eye, the most interesting being Theo Pike. Pike's fishing of urban rivers is discussed, as is his book Trout in Dirty Places, followed by a report on a couple of anglers in Berlin who have recently taken to flyfishing urban rivers. Chapters include: Equipment; Flies and fly tying; How to cast; Fish specials - brook trout, grayling, steelhead and rainbow trout, brown trout, bonefish, tarpon, permit, sea-run brown trout, giant trevally, northern pike, mahi mahi, Atlantic salmon; Portraits - Hardy Brothers, Tight Loops Collective, Maddie Brenneman, Theo Pike and urban fly fishing, Yuzo Sabata and tenkara in Japan, brothers on the fly, Mel Krieger, Hooke; On location - Montana, the Tsimane River (Bolivia), St. Brandon's Atoll (Mauritius), Seychelles, Tanzania, Florida, Japan, the Rio Grande (Argentina), Chilean Patagonia, Kamchatka, Alaska. .
