Joe Keener was a carefree private until he fought four grueling battles in six days on the terrible Peninsula. Helping a young soldier survive this hell, teaches Joe about responsibility.

The classic bucktails--Mickey Finn, Black Nose Dace--are some of the very first flies that anglers learn to tie, and they are the most well-traveled of all streamer types, from Maine to Washington, trout to salmon. With over 500 patterns, this is the only book to date written on bucktails as well as other hairwing streamers.

A fly-fishing expert supplies beginners and veteran fishermen with information and advice on fishing with streamers and bucktails, flies that imitate the smaller baitfish on which big fish feed

The Bucktails turns British disdain for their crude, uncivilized former colonists against the effete representatives of the Old Order. The Lion of the West, written more than a decade and a half later, not only scored a great popular success on both sides of the Atlantic but also supplied a template for the conventional portrait of the Westerner and for the humor of the Old South West.

In the twelve years since his landmark book Pop Fleyes, Bob Popovics has continued to develop new fly patterns and improve old favorites. His new book includes 36 step-by-step tying and technique tutorials, over 12 new patterns, and numerous variations for every situation, plus contributions from a new generation of fly tiers who have been influenced by his signature style.- Includes the Bucktail Deceiver, the Hollow Fleye, and other new patterns that have greatly influenced saltwater tying in the past ten years- Improves on old favorites, including a full update for the Surf Candy- Features contributions from well-known tiers such as Steve Farrar, Dave Skok, Johnny King, David Nelson, Paul Dixon, and Nick Curcione

Diamond jigs and bucktails are two of the most effective lures used by East Coast saltwater boat fishermen. This is the first book to detail the many subtleties of fishing these lures for a wide range of saltwater gamefish. EVERY saltwater boat fishermen has these lures on board.