Trout Rigs & Methods: All You Need to Know to Construct Rigs That Work for All Types of Trout Flies & the Most Effective Fishing Methods for Catching More & Larger Trout

by Dave Hughes, David Hall (Illustrator)

Gearing up for all types of trout fishing on creeks, rivers, tailwaters, and lakes Casting, selecting a fly, and reading the water and finding trout

Dave Hughes's clear and simple instruction and explanation describes 18 trout rigs and 81 methods to fish them. In moving water: rigs and methods for dry flies and emergers, nymphs, wet flies, streamers, and dry flies and droppers. In stillwater: dry flies and sunk flies.Fly fishers learn the specifics of the rig--types of fly line, lengths and tapers of leader and tippet, the flies, and split shot, putty weight, strike indicators, droppers, point flies, and indicators--and the full array of methods to present the rig to the trout. Hughes's lucid text is teamed with hundreds of instructive illustrations, including those showing how the trout views the fly. The more rigs you learn to construct and the more methods you learn to apply, the more situations you'll solve, and the more trout you'll catch.

Genres: Nonfiction

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2007

Reviews

[Justin · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's not exactly the kind of book you read straight through (though I did), but it's an amazing resource. Hughes provides tactics to cover pretty much every trout fishing situation you could come across, and explains it from rig to presentation.

Throw in the quick overviews on knots, gear, casting, etc., and you could just about use this book to guide your entire fishing. It's the kind of book that makes me wish I had this much knowledge about anything. I'm sure I'll be referencing it repeatedly.

[Jeffrey Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best fly-fishing books I have read. I needed to learn about rigs the most. Had no iea thre were so many methods of rigging a flyrod. The book is jam-packed with info and is easy reading.