Underwater Flies for Trout [Hardcover]

Tom Fuller (Author), Darlene Czapla Dewhurst (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 12, 1996

Books on fly fishig abound, but most focus almost exclusively on dry flies. Yet underwater flies catch more trout. This reader-friendly, vividly illustrated guide for beginning to intermediate anglers is the first book dedicated to underwater flies, supplying essential information on how to choose and fish them. Nymphs, emergers, streamers, bucktails, traditional wet flies-Fuller covers them all, both in still water and swift, including a new streamer fly pattern and improved patterns for dressing nymph imitations. The book is richly illustrated with inked drawings and a section of color photographs.

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Enticing a trout to the roof of its world for an artificial fly is one of the most exciting and satisfying moments in sport. But, as most anglers know, trout are more often content to take their meals below the surface. Many fly-fishers find the process of fishing with weighted nymphs, streamers, and wet flies an utter mystery: the fly is out of sight, takes can be nearly imperceptible, and then there's the question of which insects the fish are feeding on. Tom Fuller's thorough and demystifying Underwater Flies for Trout is designed to eliminate some of that mystery so that anglers can catch more and bigger fish when the hatch is off. To this end, he begins with the biology and lifecycles of three major trout food sources: mayflies, caddisflies, and stoneflies. All spend the majority of their lives underwater in various pre-adult phases (nymphs and emergers, primarily). A fly-fisher needs to know how to identify these insect phases, how to know whether trout are feeding on them, how to match them with artificial flies, and how to present such flies to trick trout. Fuller also covers other insects and baitfish, how to fish moving as well as still water, and his own favorite fly patterns. Beginners and experts alike will find excellent information in Underwater Flies for Trout, along with plenty of photos, diagrams, drawings, and color plates. --Langdon Cook, Sports & Outdoors editor

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A comprehensive approach to fishing trout flies beneath the surface of all waters...Fuller draws on a remarkable breadth of material. -- Will Ryan

Destined to be a classic. -- Ken Allen, The Maine Sportsman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 179 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (March 12, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070226342
• ISBN-13: 978-0070226340
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,061,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Underwater but not complete, October 20, 2006

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This review is from: Underwater Flies for Trout (Paperback)

Although i spend most of my time on the water fishing dry flies (or the occasional sunk dry), this title held the promise of catching more fish in that 80-90% of their feeding zone. It was exciting to contemplate the promise of being more productive in the mid day and putting to work all those nymphs and streamers cluttering up my fine fly boxes.

Unfortunately (for me) this title fell short in 2 ways, the information was fairly basic and the subject matter did not live up to the promise which underwater holds. If you like broad general books, ok i guess it is fine, but there are many better underwater titles out there and i would encourage you focus on specialty titles on nymphs (Nymphing Strategies or anything by Tullis) or streamers (Streamer-Fly Fishing by John Merwin is also very good), finally the Masters on the Nymph is very good.

Although this is not a very positive review, I would recommend 2 other titles by Tom Fuller, the first is Trout Streams of Southern New England: An Angler's Guide to the Watersheds of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island (yes a guide book but it is well researched, clear and easy to follow) also his recent work The Complete Guide to Eastern Hatches: What Flies to Fish, When, and Where (Hardcover) which has the potential to become a true fly-fishing "classic" it is well researched and a "must have" for the eastern fly fisher.