A Comprehensive Guide to Freshwater Fly FIshing (Doc Trout's Fishing Wisdom Series Book 1) - Softcover

Bernhardt, Bill

9781520406466: A Comprehensive Guide to Freshwater Fly FIshing (Doc Trout's Fishing Wisdom Series Book 1)

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ISBN 10: 1520406460 ISBN 13: 9781520406466

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

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Written by a professional fly fishing guide, instructor, and outdoor author with over thirty-five years of fly fishing experience and, over 1,500 articles along with eight books to his credit, this book is divided into 5 separate sections and 35 chapters consisting of:•What to know before wading into the art of fly fishing•All about fly rods, reels, lines, leaders and, knots•Trout and their environment•Tout foods and their imitations•Approach, presentation, and short range fly casting techniques Designed to be a truly comprehensive guide to the art of freshwater stream fly fishing, this book is based upon the lifetime of hours the author has spent on the stream actively observing both insect and fish behavior and thus, this book not only contains proprietary fly fishing information that you will not find elsewhere, it also presents the information in an unique manner and, from a unique point of view, that has proven to be extremely successful at teaching students the art of fly fishing! Therefore, it includes chapters on the following:•A Short History of Fly Fishing•Why You Should Learn to Fly Fish•What You Need to Get Started Fly Fishing•How to Find Places to Fly Fish•Not Just for Trout Anymore•Why Hire a Fly Fishing Guide•Wader Safety: A Matter of Life and Death•How Graphite and Fiberglass Fly Rods Are Made•Bamboo Fly Rods: worth the cost?•How Fly Rods Work•How to Select a Fly Rod•What You Need to Know About Fly Reels•What You Need to Know About Fly Lines•What You Need to Know About Fly Leaders•Fly Fishing Knots Made Simple•Eastern Trout Species•How to Identify Each Trout Species•An Insight into Trout Mentality•Trout's Preferred Habitat by Species•The Three Types of Trout Lies•The Effects of Barometric Pressure on Trout•Putting it All Together•Trout Foods and Their Imitations•A Basic Entomology Lesson•Forage Fish, Crustaceans, and Mollusks•The Different Types of Trout Flies•A Philosophy on Fly Selection•How to Choose a Fly Selection•The Fly Casting System•How to Read a Trout Stream•How to Safely Wade a Trout Stream•How to Approach a Trout Lie•Precision Casting: the key to proper presentation•Basic Short Range Fly Casting Technique•Advanced Short Range Fly Casting Techniques

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About the Author

I have been an avid fly fisherman for about foryty-five yearsnow and I have been guiding and instructing professionally for over fifteenyears. However, unlike most fly fishermen, I have a passion for small, hidden,mountain streams where the trout are native and very wary and thus demand theutmost skill level from an angler. In addition, I dearly love to teach peopleabout the art of fly fishing or, "trout hunting" as I prefer to think of it andthus, I thoroughly enjoy every moment I spend with both my students and myclients. Thus, it was my love of "trout hunting" on small, mountain streamsthat first lead me to consider the idea of becoming a fly fishing instructorand guide and my first trip as a guide convinced me that teaching others aboutthe sport of fly fishing was something that I was truly meant to do in life.Since then, I have spent countless hours exploring our local streams and myobservations have lead me to many insights that I would love to share withyou.

Note: Bill Bernhardt can be found on Facebook, Linked In and, his company web site at:

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From the Back Cover

Written by a professional fly fishing guide, instructor, and outdoor author with over thirty-five years of fly fishing experience and, over 1,500 articles and eight books, to his credit,this book is divided into 5 sections and 35 chapters consisting of:

�What to know before wading into the art of fly fishing
�All about fly rods, reels, lines, leaders and, knots
�Trout and their environment
�Tout foods and their imitations
�Approach, presentation, and short range fly casting techniques

Designed to be a truly comprehensive guide to the art of freshwater stream fly fishing, this book is based upon the lifetime of hours the author has spent on the stream observing both insect and fish behavior and thus, it not only contains proprietary fly fishing information that you will not find elsewhere, it also presents the information in a unique manner that has proven to be extremely successful at teaching students the art of fly fishing! It includes chapters on the following:

�What You Need to Get Started Fly Fishing
�How to Find Places to Fly Fish
�Not Just for Trout Anymore
�Why Hire a Fly Fishing Guide
�How to Select a Fly Rod
�How to Select a Fly Reel
�How to Select a Fly Line
�How to Select a Fly Leader
�Fly Fishing Knots Made Simple
�The Three Most Common TroutSpecies
�How to Identify Each Trout Species
�An Insight into Trout Mentality
�A Trout's Preferred Habitat by Species
�The Three Types of Trout Lies
�The Effects of Barometric Pressure on Trout
�Trout Foods and Their Imitations
�The Different Types of Trout Flies
�How to Choose a Fly Selection
�How to Read a Trout Stream
�How to Approach a Trout Lie
�Basic Short Range Fly CastingTechnique
�Advanced Short Range Fly CastingTechniques
�And much more!

From the Inside Flap

I have been a professional fly fishing guide and instructor for over fifteen years and, I love to teach my students about the art of fly fishing.Thus, I have chosen to write this guide at the urging of many of my clients who were also wonderful students and made me very glad to be a guide and instructor!

However, unlike most guides, I am a dedicated instructor and thus, I have taught several hundred students the fine art of fly fishing over the years. Consequently, based upon my experience as a professional alpine ski instructor for a local ski resort where I learned, and then improved, the lesson progression that I was taught, I have developed my own, unique, lesson progression for teaching novice fly fishermen the art of fly fishing which has proven to be very successful. In fact, my system enables me to take a fly fisherman of any skill level and plug them in at the appropriate point regardless of whether they are highly experienced or have never had a fly rod in their hand before. In addition, I became fascinated with science at an early age and observing Nature and attempting to discern why any given animal or plant does what it does has long been a favorite form of entertainment to me that I lovingly call "nature television". Consequently, I have been privileged to make many unique observations over the years concerning fish behavior which has led me to an intense study of trout and their behavior and thus, I have endeavored to include everything that I have learned about both fly fishing and trout behavior over the years in the following book.

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