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THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF FLY FISHING
Charlie Meyers and Kirk Deeter
SKYHORSE, May 2010
Hardcover
ISBN: 1-60239-981-6
Offers a simple, digestible primer on the basic elements of fly fishing: the cast, presentation, reading water, & selecting flies. In the end, this collection of 240 tips is one of the most insightful, plainly spoken, & entertaining works on this sport, one that will serve both novices & experts alike in helping them reflect & hone in their approaches to fly fishing.
5x7 inches, 224 pgs.
| Description | Type | Author | Price | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Red Book Of Fly Fishing | HC | Deeter & Meyers | $16.95 | Out of Stock |
Two highly respected outdoor journalists, Charlie Meyers of the Denver Post & Kirk Deeter of Field & Stream, have cracked open their notebooks & shared straight-shot advice on the sport of fly fishing, based on a range of new & old experiences from interviews with the late Lee Wulff to travels with maverick guides in Tierra del Fuego.
The mission of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing is to demystify & un-complicate the tricks & tips that make a great trout fisher. There are no complicated physics lessons here. Rather, conceived in the "Take dead aim" spirit of Harvey Penick's classic instructional on golf, The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing offers a simple, digestible primer on the basic elements of fly fishing: the cast, presentation, reading water, & selecting flies. In the end, this collection of 240 tips is one of the most insightful, plainly spoken, & entertaining works on this sport - one that will serve both novices & experts alike in helping them reflect & hone in their approaches to fly fishing.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Charlie Meyers is the outdoors editor for the Denver Post & has been covering various fishing & hunting angles for that newspaper since 1966. He is editor-at-large for Angling Trade. He has also contributed a great many fishing-related stories to magazines including Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Fly Fisherman, Flyfishing in Salt Waters, Southwest Fly Fishing, The Drake, & many others. He lives in Golden, Colorado.
Kirk Deeter is an editor-at-large for Field & Stream magazine & co-editor of its Fly Talk weblog. He is also the editor-in-chief of Angling Trade & senior editor of the Flyfish Journal. His stories have appeared in Garden & Gun, The Drake, 5280, Fly Rod & Reel, Fly Fisherman, Big Sky Journal, SaltWater Sportsman, & Trout, among other places. He lives in Pin, Colorado.
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