Joe Brooks on Fishing

by Edited by Don Sedgwick; with a foreword by Lefty Kreh

• ISBN13: 9781592284511
• ISBN10: 1592284515
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

Joe Brooks was a fishing pioneer, and this compendium of his dispatches spans the history of modern fly fishing. At his peak, he logged 75,000 miles a year in Central and South America, from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, where he was one of the first to fish for bonefish with a fly. He cast for tiger fish in Africa, and angled the atolls of the South Pacific and the lakes of New Zealand.

Author Biography

JOE BROOKS authored Trout Fishing, The Complete Book of Fly Fishing, Salt Water Fly Fishing, Salt Water Game Fishing, A World of Fishing, The Complete Guide to Fishing Across North America, among others. His articles appeared in Field & Stream and The Salt Water Sportsman. He lived in Livingston, Montana, in the heart of trout country.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xi
Introduction	xv
I Freshwater Fishing
The Trout We Fish For	5	(24)
Dry Fly Fishing for Trout	29	(16)
Terrestrials	45	(14)
Wet Fly and Nymph Fishing for Trout	59	(14)
Nymph Fishing	73	(10)
Fishing Streamers and Bucktails for Trout	83	(16)
Landing Bass on the Fly	99	(36)
Boca Fever	135	(8)
Argentina	143	(20)
New Zealand	163	(10)
Scotland	173	(12)
Iceland	185	(10)
Tumble Rocks!	195	(10)
Add a Little Salt	205	(10)
Northern Lights Fish	215	(12)
Montana	227	(28)
II Saltwater Fishing
Inshore Saltwater Fly Fishing	255	(6)
Chumming and Offshore Fly Fishing	261	(8)
Salty Grab Bag	269	(12)
Panama	281	(20)
Those Freedom-Loving Sickletails	301	(12)
The Bahamas	313	(14)
British Honduras	327	(12)
Mexico	339	(14)
The Angler in Action	353	(6)
Bonefish Bonanza	359	(6)
Afterword: Trout in the Sky	365	(10)
Sources	375