Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Completely Revised and Updated with Over 400 New Color Photos and Illustrations

by Rosenbauer, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781592288182
• ISBN10: 1592288189
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

With more than 200,000 copies sold, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide has been a mainstay on the angler's shelf for twenty years. Now thoroughly updated, with new information on the latest equipment, colour photos throughout, and more of the discussions of trout behaviour that made the first edition a classic, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide is ready for the next millennium. It is a complete, down-to-earth, and highly practical introduction to the exciting sport of fly-fishing. All the important elements and types of fly fishing are presented: tackle selection, casting, presentation, flies and their special uses; successful techniques on stream, pond, or ocean; and tackle, flies, and special methods of fishing for every major game fish in fresh and salt water, from bass to bonefish, tarpon to trout.

Author Biography

Tom Rosenbauer has been with the Orvis Company for twenty-seven years, and while there has been a fishing school instructor, copywriter, public relations director, merchandise manager, and editor of The Orvis News for ten years. Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for over thirty-five years, and was a commercial fly tyer by age fourteen. He has ten fly-fishing books in print, including The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide, which won a 2001 National Outdoor Book Award. He has also been published in Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Catalog Age, Fly Fisherman, Sporting Classics, Fly Rod & Reel, Audubon, and others. He lives in southern Vermont on the banks of his favorite trout stream.