Best Fly-Fishing Trips Money Can Buy [Hardcover]

Pat Ford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 12, 2006

Fly fishers dream of catching record trout on a dry fly on Depuy Spring Creek or bonefish on the flats in the Florida Keys, and this book can help turn that dream into reality. Pat Ford and contributors Chico Fernández, Andy Mill, Billy Pate, Stu Apte, Rick Murphy, and Marty Arostigue share their secrets for planning a fly-fishing trip to remember. Includes some of the best destinations the world over: South Florida; Iliamna and Katmai, Alaska; the Amazon; Bermuda; Costa Rica and Guatemala; Bozeman and Lee’s Ferry in the western United States; Argentina and Bolivia; Galapagos Islands; Africa’s Lower Zambezi National Park. Covers fishing for saltwater and freshwater species, including bonefish, permit, tarpon, sailfish, salmon, and tigerfish, and tips for finding world-record and exotic fish

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About the Author

Pat Ford’s photos and articles have appeared in Salt Water Sportsman and Fly Fishing in Salt Water magazines. He is an active member of IGFA and has held sixteen fly rod world records. He practices law in Miami, Florida.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 148 pages
• Publisher: Stackpole Books (July 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811701794
• ISBN-13: 978-0811701792
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,082,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, November 20, 2006

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S. Liddy "SLPT" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Fly-Fishing Trips Money Can Buy (Hardcover)

I bought this book for my husband who has everything fishing related and it was a great buy. He loves it and it looks great on the coffee table. The pictures are awesome. Also I can plan vacations to all the places that I already wanted to go to and now I can convince him to go with the prospect of fishing there.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fly-fishing, July 25, 2006

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E. Zimmerman (Miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Fly-Fishing Trips Money Can Buy (Hardcover)

This is the BEST fly-fishing travel book I've seen.

It's informative and well written....and tells you how to
plan and put together 15 different fly-fishing trips.
Where to go, and what equipment to bring.

The book is loaded with beautiful and fantastic color pictures.
Pat Ford's photos alone are worth the price of the book.
An excellent value !

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, April 4, 2011

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Giles Cadman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Fly-Fishing Trips Money Can Buy (Hardcover)

This is a book by a fisherman for fishermen. For a guy that is obviously a great angler he manages to come across as very humble, which is a pleasant change from some of the more ego driven writers out there.

Reading this will likely convince any fisherman that living in south florida for a few years would complete their lives.

If there is any criticism of this book it is that Pat Ford has set it up beautifully for a sequel, by leaving out the mandatory Christmas Island Bonefish, New Zealand brown trout and the exotic - Taimen in Mongolia, Mahseer in India and Russia for Salmon. A section on Mako on the fly would also be a valuable addition. Volume Two needs to come out soon.