A FLYFISHER'S REVELATIONS: Practical Tips, Strategies, and Wisdom From Fifty Years Experience

xvi, 200 pp .A captivating and provocative practical memoir, long awaited by legions of the author's fans. Ed has been a passionate and highly successful fly-fisherman and conservationist for more than half a century. Now, drawing on decades of carefully kept diaries and journals, his book is both the chronicle of a life devoted to fly-fishing and a unique sharing of detailed tips, tactics, strategies, and personal anecdotes that reveal why he has earned the reputation for unparalleled successes. He tells which flies have produced most effectively; how to choose and tie flies that work best; when and how to fish the dry or wet fly, nymph, midge, or streamer; the importance of approach and presentation. There is a special chapter on the Adams, his favorite fly and one on which he has taken more than 70% of the trout he caught on a dry fly. He also offers insight into the beauty, humility, and quiet rewards of a life spent in the embrace of nature and the pursuit of wild trout. This book is an essential read for all fly-fishers, novice and advanced. An awsome fly caster as an instructor at the Wulff School of Fly Fishing alongside Lee Wulff, Joann Wulff, and Floyd Franke. One of Thirty copies in slipcase Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…