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Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer: A Practical Guide to the Sport and Its Language

Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer: A Practical Guide to the Sport and Its Language

Gain decades of fly fishing know-how from this handy volume! Whether you’re new to fly fishing or just want to add some new “secrets” to your own bag of tricks, Ed Quigley’s Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer has all the information you’ve been looking for in one handy volume. It’s packed with easy-to-follow explanations of the basics plus ingenious tips and plenty of entertaining anecdotes culled from Quigley’s years of experience fly fishing streams from Labrador to Costa Rica. When should you use emergers, caddis flies, midges, cripples … and how can you often create them literally “on the fly” right there in the stream? How do you choose the best rod, reel, lines, waders and leaders? What’s the real secret to playing a big fish? What’s up with winter fishing? Quigley gives you all the answers along with advice on where to find more information on each topic: web sites, articles, DVDs and books. He also includes a “must read” list of 95 fly fishing books with comments on what’s most useful in each. Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer has it all! 

Plus an index and 88 illustrations and photographs. 

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Do you like my winter sport poem?

*****
Daisy, Daisy,
Give me your answer, do!
I’m half crazy,
All tied together with you!
Much better than sex,
Fly, shaped like an ‘X’
You’ll look so sad in your hospital bed
From my snowboard built for two.

*****

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