The Little Red Book Of Fly Fishing
Kirk Deeter of Field & Stream and Charlie Meyers of the Denver Post, crack open their notebooks and share expert advice on flies, casting, reading the water, and much more.
The mission of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing is to demystify and un-complicate the tricks and tips that make a great trout fisher. There are no complicated physics lessons here. Rather, conceived in the “take dead aim” spirit of Harvey Penick’s classic instructional on golf, The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing offers a simple, digestible primer on the basic elements of fly fishing: the cast, presentation, reading water, and selecting flies. The Table of Contents includes:
- Part One: The Cast: 45 Tips to Help You Cast Straighter, Longer, and More Accurately
- Part Two: Presentation: 60 Tips to Help you Place and Drift Your Flies So that Trout Will Want to Eat Them
- Part Three: Reading Water: 37 Tips to Help You Find Trout in a Rive and Effectively Cast to them
- Part Four: 43 Tips to Help You Select, Rig, and Fish the Right Fly at the Right Time in the Right Way
- Part Five: Miscellaneous: 65 Tips on Fighting Fish, Wading, Choosing Ger, and Everything Else That Matters
In the end, this collection of 240 tips is one of the most insightful, plainly spoken, and entertaining works on this sport—one that will serve both novices and experts alike in helping them reflect and hone-in their approaches to fly fishing.
Offers a simple, digestible primer on the basic elements of fly fishing: the cast, presentation, reading water, & selecting flies. In the end, this collection of 240 tips is one of the most insightful, plainly spoken, & entertaining works on this sport--one that will serve both novices & experts alike in helping them reflect & hone in their approaches to fly fishing. 5x7 inches, 224 pgs.
Two highly respected outdoor journalists, Charlie Meyers of the Denver Post & Kirk Deeter of Field & Stream, have cracked open their notebooks & shared straight-shot advice on the sport of fly fishing, based on a range of new & old experiences--from interviews with the late Lee Wulff to travels with maverick guides in Tierra del Fuego.
The mission of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing is to demystify & un-complicate the tricks & tips that make a great trout fisher. There are no complicated physics lessons here. Rather, conceived in the "Take dead aim" spirit of Harvey Penick's classic instructional on golf, The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing offers a simple, digestible primer on the basic elements of fly fishing: the cast, presentation, reading water, & selecting flies. In the end, this collection of 240 tips is one of the most insightful, plainly spoken, & entertaining works on this sport--one that will serve both novices & experts alike in helping them reflect & hone in their approaches to fly fishing.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Charlie Meyers is the outdoors editor for the Denver Post & has been covering various fishing & hunting angles for that newspaper since 1966. He is editor-at-large for Angling Trade. He has also contributed a great many fishing-related stories to magazines including Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Fly Fisherman, Flyfishing in Salt Waters, Southwest Fly Fishing, The Drake, & many others. He lives in Golden, Colorado.
Kirk Deeter is an editor-at-large for Field & Stream magazine & co-editor of its Fly Talk weblog. He is also the editor-in-chief of Angling Trade & senior editor of the Flyfish Journal. His stories have appeared in Garden & Gun, The Drake, 5280, Fly Rod & Reel, Fly Fisherman, Big Sky Journal, SaltWater Sportsman, & Trout, among other places. He lives in Pin, Colorado.