| View Larger Image | The Atlantic Salmon Handbook: An Atlantic Salmon Federation Book | Paperbackby Peter Bodo (Author)
| List Price: | $16.95 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | The Lyons Press | | Edition: | 1stst Edition | | Page Count: | 224 Pages | | Publication Date: | November 01, 1997 | | Sales Rank: | 612,655th |
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Product Description
Every year, thousands of dedicated fly fishers join the salmon-fishing tradition. This book is both an introduction to and an overview of salmon fishing. All aspects of angling, from equipment to ethics, are covered in this handbook. Chapters include: the biology of the Atlantic salmon; salmon country; when to go; gearing up; the flies, including a color section of the most popular salmon flies; the river; hooking and landing salmon; techniques for dour fish; and the ethics of salmon fishing. Peter Bodo liberally sprinkles the text with interesting and helpful anecdotes. With a valuable appendix listing public fishing opportunities and river-by-river catch statistics, The Atlantic Salmon Handbook provides enough knowledge so beginning and even advanced fly fishers can go out and fish effectively and confidently. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 6 reviews)
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Meet The World's Greatest Gamefish by Maynard F. Thomson  4 Stars
July 28, 2005
Peter Bodo's book is a useful introduction to the quest for salmo salar, the magnificent Atlantic salmon whose leaps at the end of a fly line in Eastern Canada (sadly, the great beast is now effectively gone from US waters), once seen, turn otherwise sane people into obsessives. In a few, easily-understood pages, Mr. Bodo manages to convey the objectively ridiculous but subjectively addictive passion excited by the expensive, often uncomfortable and usually fruitless effort to entice a fish that doesn't eat in fresh water to bite at a fly so that the angler, if all goes well, can bring it close enough to let it go.
Since, as Mr. Bodo freely admits, angling skill has only the most tenuous relationship to success in establishing the brief connection between man and fish the law permits, there is something poignantly other-worldly in the author's lucid exposition of flies and techniques employed on the great Canadian salmon rivers; his real message is: "It's about fishing, not catching fish." And having seen a few of the silver-black behemoths tail-walk a Miramichi pool before spitting out my feathered enticement, I know he's right.
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Demystifying Atlantic salmon fishing by Donald Larmouth (Green Bay, WI United States)  5 Stars
April 11, 2003
Bodo removes much of the mystery (and some of the mystique) from fly fishing for Atlantic salmon in a straightforward and virile style. As one getting started (at last!) I found this book very helpful, especially in times of year, access, equipment, flies, and the basics of fishing with classic methods. I expect to become aware of the more arcane subtleties involved in persuading a salmon to take a fly, but I think I can at least begin on a solid footing--without spending a king's ransom for flies and other equipment. The mysteries can come later, on the water.
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Demystifying Atlantic salmon fishing by Donald Larmouth (Green Bay, WI United States) 5 Stars
April 11, 2003
Bodo removes much of the mystery (and some of the mystique) from fly fishing for Atlantic salmon in a straightforward and virile style. As one getting started (at last!) I found this book very helpful, especially in times of year, access, equipment, flies, and the basics of fishing with classic methods. I expect to become aware of the more arcane subtleties involved in persuading a salmon to take a fly, but I think I can at least begin on a solid footing--without spending a king's ransom for flies and other equipment. The mysteries can come later, on the water.
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A good starting place  3 Stars
May 30, 2002
This is the best modern introductory book for Atlantic Salmon fishing, and the one least likely to lead you astray. That said it has some severe limitations, mostly from brevity - works by Joe Bates, Charles Phair, and Lee Wulff would be worthwhile to explore.
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the most complete book on the subject by Guy Rouleau (Montreal) 5 Stars
October 20, 1999
This book covers all aspects of Atlantic Salmon fishing with clear and experienced explanations .A must for advanced and beginners !
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