About this item
Fly fishers are always looking for useful, reliable, and trustworthy tips to improve their fishing. Veteran author and fly fisherman Skip Morris gives a year's worth of practical tips for taking trout, large and smallmouth bass, and panfish from streams and lakes in a handy, easy-to-read and grasp format. Tips include info on casting, finding fish, rigs and strategies for using them, techniques, the right tackle, knots, hooking, playing and landing fish, releasing, fishing lingo and terms, and staying safe. For further help, the tips are illustrated with instructive line drawings and color photos.
About the Author
Skip Morris is among the most prolific fly-fishing and fly-tying authors alive--his name is known to anglers around the world.
Skip has written 18 books, including the established standard beginning fly tier's volume Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple, and The Art of Tying the Bass Fly, Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes (with lake-fishing guru Brian Chan) , Concise Handbook of Fly Tying, and Fly Fisher's Guide to Western River Hatches.
His videos and DVD's range from instruction for tying nymphs, to tying bass flies, to tying and fishing flies for sea-run cutthroat trout.
Skip has published over 250 articles in magazines from Fly Fisherman to American Angler. For three years he was among the hosts of the "Fly-Fish Television Magazine" show.
Skip's newest book releases are The Salmonfly, Guide to the Dream Hatch of the West (Stackpole Books) , Survival Guide for Beginning Fly Anglers (Amato Publications) , and Tactics for Trout and Seasons for Trout (Stackpole Books, with Hughes and Hafele) .
