Inshore Fly Fishing: A Pioneering Guide to Fly Fishing along Cold-Water Seacoasts

by Lou Tabory

Overview

In this classic book, expert Lou Tabory provides professional advice on how to fly fish for striped bass, bluefish, weakfish, and other cold-water marine species. Tabory clearly instructs on how to “read” rips, bars, beaches, flats, jetties, reefs, tidal estuaries, and all other important fishing areas. He outlines what tackle fly fishermen need, which flies are most effective (and when and how they should be fished), and how to hook and play inshore game fish. There are also special sections on tides, night fishing, the use of a stripping basket, drags, and drag systems—all the information a beginning or expert marine fly fisherman needs to bring his or her skill set to the next level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762769278
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/05/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Lou Tabory has been an outdoor writer for over forty years, having published in Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, and many other magazines. He is the author of Lou Tabory’s Guide to Saltwater Baits and Their Imitations, The Orvis Pocket Guide to Fly Fishing for Striped Bass and Bluefish, and Stripers on the Fly (all Lyons Press). 

Read an Excerpt

[From the introduction]

I’ve always wondered why most fishing books begin by discussing tackle, knots, or casting. Yes, these are important aspects of the sport—and they need attention; but they are not the heart of most books. A fishing book, after all, is a fishing book. That’s why I’ve chosen to discuss fishing first. It’s my belief that most anglers who read this book already know what a fly rod is, and what they want is fly-fishing know-how—for inshore saltwater fly fishing. That’s why I’ve placed matters connected to tackle and knots last. Readers who need such basic fly-fishing information might therefore want to read the back sections first.

What makes Inshore Fly Fishing unique, I think, is that it deals most in fishing know-how, with just enough information about tackle and related fly-fishing techniques to help the beginning angler, while offering new and advanced methods to the veteran. The focus of this book is how to read and fish different waters—from moving water through the many types of fishing locations inshore waters hold. Trout fishermen will notice similarities to some of the waters mentioned, while the saltwater angler will discover how to work a fly in place of a spinning lure—and why the former is often a more effective lure.

I chose to begin with the fishing, ultimately, because that is what’s most different for all fishermen and what is most unique about what I have to say. This structure starts the reader fishing in the first pages and, without breaks, keeps the emphasis on fishing.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword by Lefty Kreh xi

Introduction xiii

Part One

Reading and Fishing Inshore Waters 1

1 The First Cast 3

2 Rips 8

3 Beaches 18

4 Flats 37

5 Jetties 47

6 Rocky Cliffs 56

7 Reefs and Rocky Points 64

8 Small Creeks 74

9 Estuaries 85

10 Saltwater Estuaries 95

11 Offshore Rips 103

12 Blue Water 111

13 Open Water 117

Editorial Reviews

"No one I know understands the intricacies of successful fly fishing along the North American coast better."—Lefty Kreh

From the Publisher