The Total Flyfishing Manual: 307 Essential Skills and Tips

by Joe Cermele, The Editors of Field & Stream

The most comprehensive fly fishing guide with the best tips, old school-techniques, tactics, and up-to-date gear reviews.Filled with over three hundred hints from the best anglers in both salt and fresh water, the editors of Field and Stream give you everything you need to make the perfect pitch, find a secret spot, and score a From the best flies of all time to the best reel for the job and when to change your hooks, learn about the tools you need for the job—as well as practical skills like tying a Palomar knot, how to unravel fly lines, the five-minute fly, tying a clouser minnow, and how to lose the tailing From old to new, everything you need to know to strike in the night, put a different spin on it, spot and stalk, shoot the breeze, and find where they Put yourself in the best position for the get up the creek for a late-season trout, find a secret spot, sneak up on more fish, fish headwaters for autumn trout, fish with your eyes, hook more rising fish, take the long shot, and dominate the shoreline.Whether you’re fishing for salmon, bass, or carp, this guide will help you improve your technique, upgrade your equipment, and hook your prize fish.

Genres: Outdoors

241 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 28, 2015

Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative and detailed book!

It has a lot of information but it is well laid out so the book is easy to get around. The pictures are very helpful with some of the information, making it easier to understand. Good introduction to fly fishing. I recommend this book if you are new or old to the sport.

[Shanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tips

I've been fly fishing two years and learned more from this book by those who've been teaching me. Great resource for any level.

[Sarah Ehinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very nice introduction to fly fishing.

[Henry DeForest · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an informative book with very pleasing illustrations and photographs, but at points I found it frustratingly gimmicky. It would have been much more readable if it was written plainly in lieu of this over-the-top "307 Essential Skills and Tips" format. This structure made it read more like a magazine listicle than a "Total Manual". But this is only a contention with format; there is no denying that Cermele is a competent writer and knows what he's doing with a fly rod.

[Jerry Basford · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lot of information

This book is full of fishing techniques for a variety of fish from stream fishing trout to lake fishing bass to salt water fishing. There is so much good information I initially purchased an e-book but I have just purchased a hard copy so I can take it with me on fishing trips and try a few techniques throughout the year.