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The Flies That Trout Prefer: Why they work and how to tie and fish them
Enjoy this book on any laptop, desktop or tablet, PC or Mac, by clicking on “Read with Our Free App”. Trout prefer flies that won’t fly away. Scruffy flies are easier to tie and catch more fish. This supreme predator targets the physically and behaviourally imperfect. Vulnerability is the key. The new evidence? Our eight years of recording and studying the interactions between trout and both natural and artificial flies using high-end cameras. Share our conclusions. Learn how to offer trout the flies they prefer.
In 2015 we set out to investigate with high definition, close-up and slow-motion video what really happens when trout take flies, both natural and artificial. We have really enjoyed the research and we have not stopped since. At the end of 2019 we published “Trout and Flies Getting Closer” here on Amazon with our then conclusions. The results of our research had sometimes supported what we thought we knew but often they overturned our comfortable assumptions. Four years of fishing and filming on rivers around the world were distilled into that book. It was able to offer readers a lot of “deep thought” by us over 350 pages illustrated by 340 still photographs and 36 free-to-view videos. We used high-definition slow-motion video to analyse the behaviour of fish, the prey on which they feed and the imitations and methods of presentation that can best be used to catch them. By slowing down the action, we were able to see what escapes the unaided human eye. We filmed trout feeding on the surface and underwater and the results fundamentally altered how we tie and present our flies, especially to selective, hard to catch fish.
A huge number of thinking fly fishers have very much appreciated “Trout and Flies Getting Closer” as the reviews show.
In preparing this book we have gone much further with our research. We have filmed crucial behaviours that have never been recorded before that have clear implications for fly design ad presentation. And the work has led us through to a huge amount of experimentation with tying and fishing new flies. These have been developed to represent vulnerability better to the trout – and the results have come through in our catching more fish and especially in catching more difficult fish. Those more difficult fish, it turns out, were usually only more difficult because we had not fully understood what they were eating and why they were eating it.
We are now able to share with you our development of new kinds of flies that use simple constructive designs to imitate the flies that trout prefer. We show how they can be tied in most cases with greater simplicity and without the stress and pressure of having to achieve perfection. We are also able to say quite a lot about what exactly these vulnerable food items are and where to find them (as the trout do) in how to find the trout that are feeding on them, and how to present the fly most effectively in those feeding places.
So welcome to more effective fly fishing by giving the trout what it really wants. And also welcome to the world of disruptive, and in most cases simpler and scruffier fly tying.
We very much hope you enjoy the book and make the effective use that you deserve of the flies and techniques that we describe and suggest.
"Peter and Don must be ranked among our formost angler-naturalists." (Paul Schullery)
" The insights are breath taking... the authors' patience, genius and consumate." (Charles Jardine)
In 2015 we set out to investigate with high definition, close-up and slow-motion video what really happens when trout take flies, both natural and artificial. We have really enjoyed the research and we have not stopped since. At the end of 2019 we published “Trout and Flies Getting Closer” here on Amazon with our then conclusions. The results of our research had sometimes supported what we thought we knew but often they overturned our comfortable assumptions. Four years of fishing and filming on rivers around the world were distilled into that book. It was able to offer readers a lot of “deep thought” by us over 350 pages illustrated by 340 still photographs and 36 free-to-view videos. We used high-definition slow-motion video to analyse the behaviour of fish, the prey on which they feed and the imitations and methods of presentation that can best be used to catch them. By slowing down the action, we were able to see what escapes the unaided human eye. We filmed trout feeding on the surface and underwater and the results fundamentally altered how we tie and present our flies, especially to selective, hard to catch fish.
A huge number of thinking fly fishers have very much appreciated “Trout and Flies Getting Closer” as the reviews show.
In preparing this book we have gone much further with our research. We have filmed crucial behaviours that have never been recorded before that have clear implications for fly design ad presentation. And the work has led us through to a huge amount of experimentation with tying and fishing new flies. These have been developed to represent vulnerability better to the trout – and the results have come through in our catching more fish and especially in catching more difficult fish. Those more difficult fish, it turns out, were usually only more difficult because we had not fully understood what they were eating and why they were eating it.
We are now able to share with you our development of new kinds of flies that use simple constructive designs to imitate the flies that trout prefer. We show how they can be tied in most cases with greater simplicity and without the stress and pressure of having to achieve perfection. We are also able to say quite a lot about what exactly these vulnerable food items are and where to find them (as the trout do) in how to find the trout that are feeding on them, and how to present the fly most effectively in those feeding places.
So welcome to more effective fly fishing by giving the trout what it really wants. And also welcome to the world of disruptive, and in most cases simpler and scruffier fly tying.
We very much hope you enjoy the book and make the effective use that you deserve of the flies and techniques that we describe and suggest.
"Peter and Don must be ranked among our formost angler-naturalists." (Paul Schullery)
" The insights are breath taking... the authors' patience, genius and consumate." (Charles Jardine)
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