Updated in full color with the latest info Enhanced with video QR codes—link to video segments teaching basic techniques All the basics—on gear, lines, leaders and knots, and casting Covers both freshwater and saltwater fishing and fly selection New chapter on trip preparation and traveling to fish Foreword by Lefty Kreh Illustrations by Rod Walinchus

This lavishly illustrated book is both a practical guide and a visual celebration of the sport from an eminently qualified team. Barry and Cathy Beck have fished and hosted trips to the best saltwater flats in the hemisphere. Here, you'll fine expert advice on fishing for thirteen species, from strippers in Martha's Vineyard, to flats Super Grand Slam. You'll find detailed instruction on long cast techniques, including a seven page photo sequence on the double haul alone. A guide to flies, gear, and tackle, as well as veteran travellers' advice about where and when to go for the best fishing.

The perfect gift book for anglers--a fly fisher's destination dream book Over 400 world-class color photographs, featuring fishing destinations from around the world Features more than twenty-five fabulous fly-fishing destinations Journey to the world's most spectacular fly-fishing destinations. . . . Fly fishers will lose themselves in these pages and dream of taking the fish of a lifetime. In this lavish, full-color book, Barry and Cathy Beck showcase the places fly fishers covet: Alaska, the American West, Argentina's Patagonia and sea-run rivers, Belize, the Bahamas, Christmas Island, New England, New Zealand, Venezuela, and the Becks' beloved Pennsylvania waters. Captured in beautiful color shots are salt- and freshwater trophy fish of all species-bonefish, permit, tarpon, snook, jacks, striped bass, trout, salmon, char, and grayling.

This new all-color and updated edition of the famous L.L. Bean Fly-Fishing Handbook is based on the methods time-tested in the Bean Fly Fishing Schools. It covers the basic skill of fly casting and choice and assembly of tackle, as well as tips on safety, an introduction to the foods fish eat (and how to imitate them), a group of recommended fly assortments, and a useful glossary. New chapters include saltwater fish species, ethics and sportsmanship, and fishing from boats and float tubes. The L.L. Bean Fly-Fishing Handbook shows that it is easy to use a fly rod skillfully and to tie flies that will catch trout. This book presents fly fishing as a sport that can provide limitless pleasure. (7 X 10, 192 pages, color photos, illustrations, diagrams, charts)

A comprehensive manual for training professionals and volunteers to assist persons with handicaps in learning the sport of fly fishing, covering adaptive fly fishing, fly tying, tackle and equipment, and working with disabled individuals in safe, effective ways. A portion of all proceeds goes to support the important work of the Adaptive Fly Fishing Institute, Inc.; a 501(c)(3) public charity.