Length4h 18m
About this audiobook
Kirk Deeter of Field & Stream and Charlie Meyers of the Denver Post, crack open their notebooks and share expert advice on flies, casting, reading the water, and much more.The mission of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing is to demystify and un-complicate the tricks and 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, and selecting flies. The Table of Contents includes:•Part One: The Cast: 45 Tips to Help You Cast Straighter, Longer, and More Accurately•Part Two: Presentation: 60 Tips to Help you Place and Drift Your Flies So that Trout Will Want to Eat Them•Part Three: Reading Water: 37 Tips to Help You Find Trout in a Rive and Effectively Cast to them•Part Four: 43 Tips to Help You Select, Rig, and Fish the Right Fly at the Right Time in the Right Way•Part Five: Miscellaneous: 65 Tips on Fighting Fish, Wading, Choosing Ger, and Everything Else That MattersIn the end, this collection of 240 tips is one of the most insightful, plainly spoken, and entertaining works on this sport—one that will serve both novices and experts alike in helping them reflect and hone-in their approaches to fly fishing.
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GenreOther
Length4 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 1, 2010
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Titlepage
2Part One: The Cast: 45 Tips to Help You Cast Straighter, Longer, and More Accurately
31. Dare to Be Different
42. It Starts with the Grip
53. Point Your Shots
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64. “10 and 2” Is Too Little, Too Late
75. Don’t Get Cocky
86. Stop! In the Name of Love (and a Good Cast)
97. Hitting the Wall
108. Throw a Drink in My Face
119. Take a Bow
1210. Watch That Thumb
1311. Say Hello to Good Casting
1412. William Tell Overture
1513. Tighten the Loop
1614. Anticipation ... It’s Crazy
1715. Groove Your Swing
1816. See the “U”
1917. Flick the Tomato
2018. Tossing the Grape
2119. Tuck It In
2220. Too Much, Too Soon
2321. The Water-Load
2422. Let the Current Do the Dirty Work
2523. Roll ’Em Easy
2624. Saving a Stroke
2725. The Woody Hayes Rule of Casting
2826. Forty Feet in Four Seconds
2927. Come Closer, Darling
3028. When Not to Cast (or Even Twitch)
3129. Control Trumps Distance
3230. Pinkie Perfection
3331. Cast around Problems
3432. Make Friends with the Wind
3533. Wind Knots and the Big Bang Theory
3635. The Double Haul
3736. Just a Flick of the Wrist
3837. Remove the Shackles
3938. Lose the Tailing Loop
4039. Fish Like a Snake
4140. Will Your Casts
4241. What Spooks Trout
4342. The Hard Splashdown Isn’t So Bad
4443. Make the First Cast Count
4544. Time Your Casts
4645. Give Me a Good Drift Over a Good Cast, Any Day
47Part Two: Presentation: 60 Tips to Help You Place and Drift Your Flies So That Trout Want to Eat Them
4846. The Dead Drift
4947. High-Stick Nymphing
5048. The Whole Nine Feet
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