The Nuts 'N' Bolts Guide to Knots for Fly-Fishers [Paperback]

Mark Williams (Author)

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From the Back Cover

Isn't fly-fishing challenging enough without losing fish to ill-tied knots? Improve your chances of landing more fish with Knots for Fly-Fishers. Its clear, step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations make typing bewildering fly-fishing knots as easy as 1-2-3. In this book, author Mark Williams shares the basic tenets of line and knot maintenance. And he teaches you how to tie knots for all fly-fishing applications, from setting up your line and reel, to attaching tippet to fly, to tying on dropper rigs. You'll master an amazing array of knots - Overhand, Clinch, Palomar, Turle, Blood, Orvis, and many more. (6 x 9, 32 pages, diagrams)

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (November 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897322134
• ISBN-13: 978-0897322133
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,900,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark D. Williams has published hundreds of articles and photos the last twenty years in magazines, newspapers, online publications including Texas Sporting Journal, Backpacker, Men's Health, Dallas Morning News, Cowboys and Indians, Southwest Fly Fishing, ESPN, SPORT, Gorp.com, Outdoorsite.com, Texas Fish and Game, Baseball Digest, Amarillo Globe News and many more. He is the fishing expert for Tibesti.com and Away/Gorp.com.

Williams has published 15 books including So Many Fish So Little Time: The 1001 Best Places on Earth to Fish from Harper Collins (agent David H Smith, DHS Literary and Inkwell Management). Other books include Trout Fishing Sourcebook, The Backpacking Flyfisher, Flyfishing Southwestern Colorado, Knots for Flyfishers and Freshwater Flyfishing Tips from the Pros (Fireside/Simon and Schuster.) He and his wife Amy wrote two books with Wayfinder Press (top 30 Things to Do in Durango, Top 30 Things to Do in Telluride.) Williams has two books out this last year: Colorado Flyfishing: Where to Eat, Sleep and Fish co-written with Chad McPhail, published by Johnson Books out right now and doing great; and So You Want to FlyFish? also co-written with Chad McPhail, published by Fell Publishers, due out this summer. His mysterious twisting novel is now on Kindle, The Bedside Diaries. Williams is now also an iPad/iPhone app author -- his app, Freshwater Flyfishing From the Pros has 250 tips and 1000 photos from all the big names in the sport and many from guys and gals in the trenches, the ones who guide newbies daily.

Williams will have two more books coming out this and next year: 49 Trout Streams of Southern Colorado from University of New Mexico Press; and 35 Top Flyfishing Spots of the Southwest, from Stonefly Press.

Williams has traveled the world but finds himself more and more fishing small streams in New Mexico and Colorado and working on his second novel. He also teaches high school English and Speech at North Heights Alternative School in Amarillo Texas. He and his students have written two books, Voices From the Heights and Paintings on the Walls. A third book with NHAS Students is now on Kindle, Voices and Paintings From the Heights.

My app for iPad/iPhone: Freshwater Flyfishing Tips from the Pros

http://sutromedia.com/apps/Freshwater_Flyfishing_Tips_From_the_Pros

Get in touch with Mark D. Williams at [e-mail].

Mark's blog: http://homebasesfishingplaces.blogspot.com/

Twitter: @mdwtrout