| View Larger Image | Fly Fishing for Striped Bass (Masters on the Fly series) | Hardcoverby Rich Murphy (Author)
| List Price: | $59.95 | | Price: | $40.46 | | You Save: | $19.49 (33%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Wild River Press | | Page Count: | 400 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 01, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 302,246nd |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
The average angler can enjoy the sport of fly fishing for the rebounding populations of striped bass as they migrate from the Carolinas to Maine with this practical guide to tackle, casting and retrieving techniques, striper behavior and biology, and habitat-specific fishing tactics. Remarkable close-up and underwater photos of the bass in their natural marine environments, spectacular satellite photos of the coastal waters of New England, and photographs of 33 original fly designs round out the presentation. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 16 reviews)
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Superb guide to shore-based striper fishing! by S. James (Boston, MA)  5 Stars
September 04, 2009
If you're a striped bass angler on the east coast, and you don't have this book, what are you thinking?! A triumph in striper flyfishing instruction; history, gear, tactics, flies, where, when, and why.
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excellent book by Fisherman (falmouth, ma) 5 Stars
August 30, 2009
book covers all aspects of stripers including their habitat, prey, predators, and fly fishing for them
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Great Book if You Like Pictures of Big Trout by D. Clifton (New Mexico)  4 Stars
May 03, 2009
The pictures are the best part of this book. This is a great book to inspire someone to go fly fishing. If you are an experienced fly fisherman you might be disapointed if you buy this book to increase your knowledge of fly fishing. You probably already use many of the fly fishing methods discussed. Landon uses simple stratagies that produces great results. You will learn out all about the number of big fish Landon has caught and you will see all the pictures to prove it. What you will read about fishing for big trout is straight forward and simple. From reading the book I discovered that the 'secret' is to spend time scouting until you spot/target a big trout. Once you can spot a big trout, you can catch it with one of the various favorite flies that Landon recommends (there isn't much information about how to fish the flies - just a list of foods that the big fish eat). You also learn that finding big trout is easier when they are moving. And, you should fish at the depth where the big trout are feeding, use polarized glasses, wear a hat, and carry a big net... (all good, well known, stratigies). What I personally found most helpful in the book are Landon's observations and hints that help him spot trout... This is a very intertaining book with lots of success stories. I would recommend "How to Catch the Biggest Trout of Your Life" to anyone new to fly fishing.
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A Magazine Article Would Have Sufficed by AWW (Boston)  1 Stars
October 30, 2008
I bought this book, along with John Barr's Barr Flies, in preparation for a steel heading trip to the tributaries of L. Erie. Ironically, the two men are friends and fish together, but the similarity in the two books ends there. My two beefs with the book are sparse information content (this should have been a magazine article) and the awful writing/editing. Virtually every page has grammatical mistakes that either confound the author's meaning and/or distract the reader. The editor, if there was one, is clearly not a fisherman and uses phrases seldom if ever uttered by fishermen - again a distraction. I found that reading the figure and picture legends were the least painful way to quickly pick up what the book offered. I also purchased the companion DVD and Landon comes across as more professional and dare I say intelligent than what I would have surmised from the book. However, the rock concert discography through-out the video was an unnecessary distraction, designed I suppose to hide the thin editorial content. Get a good guide for a day and you'll learn a lot more.
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How to Catch the Biggest Trout of Your Life by Gary Eaton (USA) 5 Stars
September 06, 2008
Landon Mayer has put dozens of years hunting high-country trophy trout into a concise volume. There is no mystery to his mastery. Diligence, hard work, keen observation and, guiding with great anglers allow his career notes to flow easily to the student. The seasoned angler will appreciate revelation of critical details and the less experienced flyfisher can benefit from re-reading the wealth of to-the-point instruction. Landon is a Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Casting Instructor and professional guide, more importantly he loves to practice catch and release trout fishing. His book let's one do it all well. - reviewed by Gary Eaton
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Barr Flies: How to Tie and Fish the Copper John, the Barr Emerger, and Dozens of Other Patterns, Variations, and Rigs
by John Barr (Author), Charlie Craven (Illustrator)
In Barr Flies, John Barr shares his confidence patterns, the flies that he carries with him at all times to cover nearly every scenario an angler might encounter on the water. When used at an appropriate time with a good presentation, they are guaranteed to catch fish. Barr tells how he developed each fly, gives tips on when and how to fish them, and explains how he fishes multiple-fly rigs with the Copper John as the center of a 3-fly system that optimizes fish-catching potential. John Barr...
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| Striped Bass Flies: Patterns of the Pros
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Striped Bass Flies contains 80 terrific flies used by experienced bass fly-fishing guides from coast to coast. Interviews with each of the contributing guides are combined with complete fly recipes—some with variations—including easy-to-follow step-by-step tying sequences with detailed color photos. Also includes a thorough discussion of fishing for striped bass throughout the range of this popular saltwater gamefish. Full-color throughout: 250 color photos.
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| Trout Rigs & Methods: What You Need to Know to Construct Rigs that Work for All Types of Trout Flies & the Most Effective Fishing Methods for Catching More & Larger Trout
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Dave Hughes's clear and simple instruction and explanation describes 18 trout rigs and 81 methods to fish them. In moving water: rigs and methods for dry flies and emergers, nymphs, wet flies, streamers, and dry flies and droppers. In stillwater: dry flies and sunk flies.Fly fishers learn the specifics of the rig--types...
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Angling legend Charles Meck covers tandems top to bottom with his favorite flies for matching hatches, as well as tried-and-true patterns for drumming up fish during summer doldrums and other tough conditions. In the first book devoted entirely to fishing more than one fly at once, Meck discusses 7 of the most effective rigs and the best times to use them, including detailed steps showing how to tie his new looped-leader series of flies. Artist Dave Hall provides clear illustrations of the...
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| Fishing Knots: Proven to Work for Light Tackle and Fly Fishing with DVD
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The knot is a critical part of the fisherman s rig. No matter how superb the rod, reel, and tackle, if the knot fails, the game is over. In Fishing Knots, expert angler Lefty Kreh offers a complete guide to tying essential knots for light tackle and fly fishing, from simple loop knots to the complicated, with precise illustrations to demonstrate each step of the tying process. Lefty gives helpful tying tips for achieving maximum line strength and describes effective methods for connecting lines...
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