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Lefty Kreh's Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing: Everything Anglers Need to Know by the World's Foremost Fly Fishing Expert [Hardcover]

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November 1, 2003
Lefty Kreh is generally acknowledged around the world as being the wisest and most widely read fly fishing instructor. Over the past fifty years he has written nearly two dozen books, accounting for hundreds of thousands of copies in print, in order to address the many aspects of this exciting sport. Now for the first time, all of Lefty's many tips and techniques are available in a single, powerful volume: Lefty Kreh's Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing. Culled from a lifetime of fishing and teaching in almost every conceivable place a fish can be caught, fly fishers will learn the master's thousands of subtle tricks and invaluable insights, such as: selection of rod, line, and leader for fresh and salt water; basic casting, casting in salt water, solving casting problems, and advanced casting; approaching fish and presenting flies; techniques for trout, salmon, bass, panfish, stripers, bluefish, sharks, tarpon, bonefish, and more; fly design and selection; fishing in rivers and lakes, inshore and offshore, in mangrove backwaters and on the open sea.
No single work contains more of Lefty's experience and knowledge. It is a boon to beginners, a reference to experts, and the ultimate work for Lefty enthusiasts and collectors.


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"is probably the best book available for someone who doesn't want to build a fly-fishing library but would like to have one reference volume that will answer most questions."--The Detroit Free Pree


"lives up to its title."--Gray's Sporting Journal

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Lefty Kreh is generally acknowledged around the world as being the wisest and most widely read fly fishing instructor. Over the past fifty years he has written nearly two dozen books, accounting for hundreds of thousands of copies in print, in order to address the many aspects of this exciting sport. Now for the first time, all of Lefty's many tips and techniques are available in a single, powerful volume: Lefty Kreh's Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing. Culled from a lifetime of fishing and teaching in almost every conceivable place a fish can be caught, fly fishers will learn the master's thousands of subtle tricks and invaluable insights, such as: selection of rod, line, and leader for fresh and salt water; basic casting, casting in salt water, solving casting problems, and advanced casting; approaching fish and presenting flies; techniques for trout, salmon, bass, panfish, stripers, bluefish, sharks, tarpon, bonefish, and more; fly design and selection; fishing in rivers and lakes, inshore and offshore, in mangrove backwaters and on the open sea.
No single work contains more of Lefty's experience and knowledge. It is a boon to beginners, a reference to experts, and the ultimate work for Lefty enthusiasts and collectors.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 424 pages
  • Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (November 1, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592281117
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592281114
  • Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,229,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars eye of the beholder, March 7, 2005
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This review is from: Lefty Kreh's Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing: Everything Anglers Need to Know by the World's Foremost Fly Fishing Expert (Hardcover)
This book is a compendium of the information that Lefty Kreh has imparted by books and talks at angling shows over his career. Whether this book is useful to you depends on how many of his previous books you have purchased. Much of what appears in this book has been published in some form before. If you don't have any of Lefty's books, by all means get this one. If you have read one or more of his books, a lot of the information in this one will look familiar.
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31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Pentultimate Fly-Fishing Book!, January 26, 2004
This review is from: Lefty Kreh's Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing: Everything Anglers Need to Know by the World's Foremost Fly Fishing Expert (Hardcover)
Every once in a while there is an expert who, through years of trial and error and effort-gains lots of knowledge about his area of interest- Such a man is Lefty Kreh- and then- sometimes he puts it all into one book-and makes it available to us neophytes-and WE WIN!
Just such a book is this- whatever you need to know-flies, knots, tackle, methods, fish, water (Fresh-salt-warm-inland)-
Hey , Lefty knows it- he puts it down! You get the book- you will know it too!
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4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent General Book, December 26, 2011
This review is from: Lefty Kreh's Ultimate Guide to Fly Fishing: Everything Anglers Need to Know by the World's Foremost Fly Fishing Expert (Hardcover)
I label it a general book, because it covers a broad range of information that, mentioned earlier, makes it ideally suited for those coming into the sport. Having said that, Lefty has a great base of knowledge that anyone can find useful, despite the number of years you may have been involved in fly-fishing. His chapters describing his specific casting theory helped me a great deal in understanding the mechanics, and alone make this book worth purchasing, although if you are concerned with casting alone one of his DVDs would suite you better.

As others have mentioned, Lefty tends to regurgitate the same information throughout his books, so if you purchase this one you do not need to purchase others. I bought Presenting the Fly and found that it was comprised of specific chapters from this book, which basically made it redundant and therefore obsolete, so be aware if you already own some of Lefty's works.
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Fly fishing is one of the world's great pleasures. Read the first page
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rod tip speeds, side backcast, tailing loop, conventional dry fly, threadfin salmon, butt guide, normal forward cast, tuck cast, popping bug, bite tippet, rod tip moves, underwater fly, curve cast, crab fly, many fly fishermen, butt section, brightly colored line, giant tarpon, roll cast, drag tension, good caster, underwater flies, double haul, fly line, lower your rod
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