Fly Fishing for Bonefish

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Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2003-11-01
Publisher(s): Lyons Press
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Summary

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. An especially interesting section treats fly selection and design - with color plates of more than seventy patterns tied by some of today's most innovative fly developers, including Carl Richards, Craig Mathews, Jack Gartside, Jeffrey Cardenas, Lefty Kreh, Ben Estes, Tim Borski, Jim Orthwein , and many others. Brown also catalogs major bonefish destinations around the world. With its hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs (the color sections on how to spot fish are exceptionally valuable), dozens of line drawings by Bob White, and a crsip, authoritative, and extensive text, FLY FISHING FOR BONEFISH is the definitive book on what may well be fly fishing's ultimate challenge.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION xiii
1 Fly Fishing for Bonefish: The Ultimate Challenge in Angling 1(11)
2 Understanding the Bonefish 12(27)
3 What Bonefish Eat 39(24)
4 Reading Bonefish Water 63(23)
5 Finding and Seeing Bonefish 86(19)
6 Selecting Bonefish Flies 105(34)
7 Casting to Bonefish 139(21)
8 Hooking, Playing, and Releasing 160(17)
9 Wading for Bonefish 177(11)
10 Fly Fishing Equipment 188(25)
11 Personal Gear, Clothing, and Other Tackle 213(9)
12 Tying Bonefish Flies 222(28)
13 Bonefishing Destinations 250(42)
14 Advice from Some Veterans of the Flats 292(29)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 321(6)
INDEX 327

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