Fly Fishing the Inshore Waters : How to Catch Stripers, Blues, Redfish, Snook, Seatrout, and More
by Lefty KrehFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2002-11-01
Publisher(s): The Lyons Press
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Summary
In this gorgeous full-colour book, master fly angler Lefty Kreh shows you how to fish the long wand for all the major inshore species, offering invaluable, authoritative, and time-tested advice on the fish and their habitats; reading and understanding the tides; finding fish; casting techniques; tackle selection; the nine best fly patterns for inshore saltwater fly fishing, complete with tying instructions; and much more.
Author Biography
Lefty Kreh is the best known and most respected fly-casting instructor and fly-fishing author in the world. For more than fifty years he has traveled the globe with fly rod in hand, in search of every species of fish that swims. He lives in Maryland
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 7 |
| Finding Fish Inshore | p. 13 |
| Wear a Hat | p. 14 |
| Sunglasses | p. 15 |
| The Appearance of Fish in Saltwater | p. 20 |
| Locating Fish in Shallow Saltwater | p. 21 |
| Understanding the Tides | p. 27 |
| Tide Changes | p. 27 |
| How Tides Affect Your Fishing Success | p. 30 |
| Tackle for Inshore Fly Fishing | p. 37 |
| Rods | p. 37 |
| Reels | p. 39 |
| Lines | p. 40 |
| Weight-Forward Lines | p. 41 |
| Shooting Heads | p. 43 |
| Teeny Lines | p. 47 |
| Casting Sinking Lines and Heavy Flies | p. 48 |
| Lefty's Special Weedguard | p. 52 |
| Using Chuggers and Popping Bug/Streamer Combination Rigs to Tease Fish | p. 55 |
| Using a Chugger to Tease Fish | p. 55 |
| How to Make a Chugger | p. 57 |
| How to Make a Popping Bug/Streamer Combination Rig | p. 58 |
| How to Use a Popping Bug/Streamer Combination Rig | p. 58 |
| The Nine Essential Inshore Saltwater Patterns | p. 61 |
| Popping Bug | p. 62 |
| Crab Fly | p. 63 |
| Surf Candy | p. 64 |
| Sar-Mul-Mac | p. 65 |
| Whistler | p. 66 |
| Seaducer | p. 67 |
| Clouser Minnow | p. 68 |
| Tying the Clouser Minnow | p. 72 |
| Bend Back | p. 73 |
| Tying the Bend Back | p. 76 |
| Lefty's Deceiver | p. 77 |
| Tying the Lefty's Deceiver | p. 80 |
| Fishing for Striped Bass | p. 85 |
| Where, When, and How to Fish for Stripers | p. 86 |
| Gear and Tackle Requirements | p. 91 |
| Boats | p. 91 |
| Lines | p. 93 |
| Reels | p. 94 |
| Rods | p. 94 |
| Flies | p. 95 |
| Stripping Baskets | p. 96 |
| Fishing for Other Inshore Species | p. 101 |
| Albacore | p. 101 |
| Redfish | p. 103 |
| Bluefish | p. 107 |
| Snook | p. 110 |
| Barracuda | p. 113 |
| Sharks | p. 116 |
| Appendix | p. 118 |
| Index | p. 124 |
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