The sheer variety of fly-fishing environments and experience covered in "Taking Trout" make it a worthy addition to a fishing library. Fishing a canyon stream with midges, Hughes teaches the basics of presentation. Fishing stair steps, Hughes covers strategies to prevent drag. Fishing bank water, Hughes teaches how to cast upstream near the bank for the trout there. Fishing slicks, deciphering whether trout are feeding on the surface of the water or subsurface, the benefits of spike camping away from the base camp in order to fish less congested waters-all are covered in the book. Readers will learn from an experienced fisherman and talented fly-fishing author, who himself admits he is still learning how to take trout. EXCERPT: "We packed a small tent, sleeping bags, and pads, some light food and cooking gear, and headed out with all the others. We lazed along, dropped our packs, and fished while everybody else rushed ahead. .. . . We'd had an excellent day, spent fishing rather than racing."
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Dave Hughes is the editor of "Flyfishing and Tying Journal" and has written more than 25 fishing books, including "Essential Trout Flies" (0811727483), "Handbook of Hatches" (081172087X), and "Wet Flies: Tying and Fishing Soft-Hackles, Winged and Wingless Wets, and Fuzzy Nymphs" (0811718689).
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One of the overlooked skills in catching trout is learning to fish where they are as opposed to where they are not. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lake food forms, good bank water, wiggle cast, old good stuff, searching dry fly, shooting taper system, minimum kit, wading waves, downstream belly, instant drag, tippet spools, spike camp, beadhead nymph, winged wet, rising trout, caddis adults, delivery stroke, reach cast, selective trout, fly downstream, upstream mends, upstream cast, midge pupae, wet fly, caddis pupae Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Deschutes River, Sparkle Pupa, Olive Woolly Bugger, Slough Creek, Parachute Adams, Deer Hair Caddis, Elk Hair Caddis, Rick Hafele, Royal Wulff, Bighorn River, Hidy Subsurface Swing, Jim Schollmeyer, Olive Beadhead, Pearsall's Gossamer, Skip Morris, Sylvester Nemes, Yellowstone River, Beadhead Prince, Gold-Ribbed Hare's Ear, River of Swans, Short-Line Dry Fly, Useful Level New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
One of the overlooked skills in catching trout is learning to fish where they are as opposed to where they are not. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lake food forms, good bank water, wiggle cast, old good stuff, searching dry fly, shooting taper system, minimum kit, wading waves, downstream belly, instant drag, tippet spools, spike camp, beadhead nymph, winged wet, rising trout, caddis adults, delivery stroke, reach cast, selective trout, fly downstream, upstream mends, upstream cast, midge pupae, wet fly, caddis pupae Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Deschutes River, Sparkle Pupa, Olive Woolly Bugger, Slough Creek, Parachute Adams, Deer Hair Caddis, Elk Hair Caddis, Rick Hafele, Royal Wulff, Bighorn River, Hidy Subsurface Swing, Jim Schollmeyer, Olive Beadhead, Pearsall's Gossamer, Skip Morris, Sylvester Nemes, Yellowstone River, Beadhead Prince, Gold-Ribbed Hare's Ear, River of Swans, Short-Line Dry Fly, Useful Level New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Custom Graphite Fly Rod by Skip Morris on page 138, page 150, and Back Matter
- Fly Fishing Strategy by Doug Swisher on page 24, and Back Matter
- Hatch Guide for Western Streams by Jim Schollmeyer on page 193, and Back Matter
- Fishing dry flies for trout on rivers and streams by Art Lee on page 50, and Back Matter
- Selective Trout: Revised and Expanded by Carl Richards on page 199, and Back Matter
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