Get Started Fly-Fishing! - Softcover

Craig R. Schuhmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571884734 ISBN 13: 9781571884732

Publisher: Frank Amato Publications, 2012

Synopsis

Get Started Fly-Fishing! is the perfect guide for anyone wishing to learn the fundamentals of fly fishing and start catching trout with a fly. The author is a fly fishing guide, instructor and angler with over thirty years' fly fishing experience, and has introduced hundreds of anglers to the sport of fly fishing using the very same principles contained in this book.

The starting point for this book is specific: fly fishing for trout in rivers. This is how most anglers begin their journey; they start by exploring their local waters armed with nothing more than a five-weight fly rod, floating fly line and Adams dry fly to seduce elusive trout from their watery domains. In addition to teaching the basics, this book will also give recommendations for developing more nuanced approaches that may be required for specific rivers and conditions.

About this title

About the Author:

Craig Schuhmann is the author of Moon Outdoors: Oregon Fishing and has written articles for "Flyfishing & Tying Journal" and "Fly Tyer Magazine." He is a fly-fishing guide in Southern Oregon and has taught basic fly-fishing classes at the local community college in Kalamath Falls, Oregon.

Review:

"In Get Started Fly-Fishing!, Schuhmann breaks down the sport with sections on knots and riggings and casting fundamentals as well as trout food and fly patterns, reading water and presentation. With a lot of color pictures and illustrations, the book is easy to navigate, but the title is a little misleading. Yes, the beginner will benefit from this book, but so will the more accomplished fly-fisherman." --Gary Lewis, Eugene Register Guard, June 2, 2012

"Beginners will particularly enjoy learning how to connect the parts of fly fishing rigs fly line to leader, leader to tippet, and tippet to hook and the section on where to find trout in a river will certainly cut down times between strikes. The illustrations are easy-to-follow, and there are color photographs of common flies. All in all, Get Started Fly Fishing! is a perfect primer for someone just starting out in fly fishing." --Jerry Smalley, Hungry Horse News, April 10, 2013

About this edition

• Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1571884734
• ISBN 13: 9781571884732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116
• Illustrator: Dave Hall