Bass and panfish flies tend to be relatively easy to tie, and Fly Tyer’s Guide to Essential Trout Flies will take advantage of this near-universal appeal. At 128 pages and with the popular, hidden-spiral binding, the title is both accessible and utilitarian.

In this comprehensive, richly illustrated guide, Tom Keith offers expert advice on how to tie and fish the best flies for panfish, smallmouth, and largemouth bass. Nearly 300 photographs with text explain tying steps in fine detail. Finished flies illustrated in full color. Information on choosing the proper equipment, how to cast, habits of the fish, and how to develop skills to look at a body of water and accurately predict where panfish and bass will be holding and feeding.

Fly fishers are always looking for useful, reliable, and trustworthy tips to improve their fishing. Veteran author and fly fisherman Skip Morris gives a year’s worth of practical tips for taking trout, large and smallmouth bass, and panfish from streams and lakes in a handy, easy-to-read and grasp format. Tips include info on casting, finding fish, rigs and strategies for using them, techniques, the right tackle, knots, hooking, playing and landing fish, releasing, fishing lingo and terms, and staying safe. For further help, the tips are illustrated with instructive line drawings and color photos.

Bluegill Fly Fishing & Flies will show you that large bluegill can be as selective as any trout. Their pugnacity is legendary and their yanking, diving, twisting battles make for a tenacious opponent, especially on ultralight equipment. The Wilsons share: proper equipment; the best flies, including their recipes and techniques for using them; identifying the most productive bluegill waters; bluegill habits and behaviors; effective presentations; and many more tips learned over their combined 75 years of experience fishing for bluegill. This book is your guide to more and larger bluegills.

Provides step-by-step instructions on tying five hundred trout flies and offers information on tying techniques, tools, and materials.

Written by local experts, our paddling books are indispensable resources for kayakers and canoeists. They include information on: -- Equipment and clothing -- Launch sites and water conditions -- Wind, currents, and tides -- Charts and maps

Fly rodding for largemouth and smallmouth bass and other warmwater gamefish has really taken off in the past decade. Leading the way into this new fishing frontier is Dave Whitlock, one of America's most famous and innovative fishermen. His flies, videos, and seminars have pioneered new possibilities for bass fishermen everywhere.In this all-encompassing handbook, Whitlock introduces and examines angling techniques that will enable even beginners to catch bass on a fly rod. There are chapters on the different basses and their habitats, the best balanced tackle to use, casting and fishing techniques and tactics, innovative flies, how to fish on both lakes and streams, and much more. (7 X 10, 192 pages, color photos, illustrations, diagrams, charts)

Detailed color photos of 540 flies for all types of fly fishing for trout.