A master fly fisherman reveals the essentials of fly fishing for largemouth, smallmouth, and exotics.

Sound advice for mastering the challenges of fly-fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass. Fishing strategies, casting methods, and fly-tying techniques are fully illustrated. Fly Fishing Bass Basics is packed with vital information, tips, and sound advice on: Tackle and Flies; Locating and Fishing Bass; Caxting Methods; Wading Techniques; Fly Fishing from Boat and Float-boat; Hooking, Fighting, and Landing Bass; Tying Your Own Bass Bugs and Flies.

Fundamentals for the beginning fly fisher including tips on rod and reel selection, tackle and tying techniques, basic and advanced casting methods, and more.

Two hundred and forty popular and effective fly patterns for fishing everywhere in North America.

Lakes are one of the most challenging opportunities available to today's fly fisher. Stillwaters offer a long active season with numerous hatches and presentation challenges. Fish grow big and fat and many fishers find this appeal hard to resist. But the transfer from rivers and streams is often difficult, especially if a prolonged trial-and-error approach is adopted. This book examines the stillwater fly fisher's kit bag, expectations, and offers an introduction to the diverse stillwater food sources. The Orvis Guide to Stillwater Trout Fishing explains everything the aspiring stillwater fly fisher needs to be successful and build a sound foundation that will last through a lifetime plying stillwaters.

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)

If you're looking to spend some time chasing one of the Atlantic's most popular sport fish, this book can help make it time well spent. Chico Fernández shares a lifetime of expertise and experiences fly fishing for redfish up and down the Atlantic Coast, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico.