Author: Dick Brown
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS, FALCON), Feb 2008
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1-59921-046-0
Synopsis
No brand of fly fishing challenges anglers more than stalking bonefish on tropical saltwater flats. With its hundreds of drawings & photos & crisp & authoritative text, this is a definitive book on this wonderfully exciting sport. A comprehensive guide to the fish--& to the tackle, flies, skills & techniques needed to catch it. Full color t/out & B&W photos; 7.5x9.5 inches, 352 pgs.
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No brand of fly fishing challenges anglers more than stalking bonefish on tropical saltwater flats. Fly Fishing for Bonefish offers a definitive profile of this elusive fish and thoroughly dissects the skills needed to catch it. Brown shows how to find and see bonefish?how to spot feeding and mudding signs, the camouflage techniques the fish adopts, the effects of tide, temperature, and weather on where the fish will be, and how it can be spotted. Then he gives helpful advice on how to fish cruising or tailing fish, which striping techniques work best, how to set drag, and the most effective ways to strike and fight bonefish.
Fly Fishing for Bonefish offers a definitive profile of this elusive fish and thoroughly describes the skills needed to catch it. Author Dick Brown shows how to find and see bonefish -- how to spot feeding and mudding signs; how to understand the camouflage techniques the fish employs; and how tide, temperature, and weather all affect fish movement. He instructs how to target cruising and tailing fish, which striping techniques work best, how to set your drag, and the most effective ways to strike and fight bonefish.
An especially crucial section instructs the reader on fly selection and design, with color plates of more than seventy patterns tied by some of the most innovative fly developers, including Carl Richards, Craig Mathews, Jack Gartside, Jeffrey Cardenas, Lefty Kreh, Ben Estes, Tim Borski, Jim Orthwein, and and a number of others.
With its many color and black-and-white photographs, dozens of line drawings by Bob White, and authoritative and extensive text, Fly Fishing for Bonefish is the definitive book on the species that is one of the greatest challenges in fly fishing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dick Brown headed corporate communications for a Fortune 500 computer company before retiring to pursue his two favorite gamefish: Atlantic salmon and bonefish. He has bonefished in Bimini, Andros, the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys. He also catalogs major bonefish destinations around the world.
