FLY FISHING BOOKS

A comprehensive guide to stillwater trout and salmon fishing in Ireland - written by Peter O’Reilly, who has spent half a century fishing, surveying and writing about the gamefishing rivers and loughs of Ireland.
Now in its third edition, this is a first class guide to the numerous loughs of Ireland. It is strongly recommend it to anyone contemplating a stillwater fishing trip to the Emerald Isle.

A newly revised and updated edition of "The Trout and Salmon Rivers of Ireland". This remarkable guide and reference book immediately establishes itself as definitive in its field. Everyone who fishes in Ireland, resident or holiday visitor, should have this book constantly to hand.

Modern classic of Irish angling, especially loch-fishing for sea-trout. Introduces Kingsmill Moore’s famous series of Bumbles.

Full colour descriptive guide to the best salmon and sea trout loughs in Ireland, illustrated with maps and over 100 colour photographs.

The loughs of Ireland hold the reputation as some of the most beautiful and productive salmon and sea trout fisheries in the world. Bill Rawlings’ intimate knowledge and extensive experience of these special locations will both fascinate and guide prospective visitors and will entrance trout fisherman worldwide.

The author has had many years’ experience of fishing in Scotland and he uses this knowledge to advise the reader on where to fish, the equipment needed and how to succeed. He gives details of how to make contact with fisheries managers and where to stay.

The author writes about his experiences as he travels around the Highlands and also considers the recent decline in fish numbers and offers solutions as to how this trend could be reversed. With its wealth of photographs and evocative text this is a very personal book which will appeal both to those familiar with the area and to those discovering it for the first time.

A great book for a beginner to trout fishing. In just under three hundred colourful pages, this coffee-table book attempts to cover everything there is to know about flyfishing for trout and pretty much gets away with it. It covers trout food, tackle, clothing, flies and fly-tying, casting and tactics, and much more.

In the sport of trout fishing, small stillwaters stocked with farm-reared trout are of vital importance. They provide easily accessible and affordable fishing in areas where there are simply not enough rivers, or lakes, to cater for the number of people who love to fly fish.

Hugh Falkus covers everything the would-be sea trout fisherman could possibly wish to know. He looks at sea trout behaviour, biology, tackle, casting, fly fishing, spinning and bait fishing techniques and tactics in a style which is easy to read and informative. The anecdotes combined with documented historical quotations provide both interest and an understanding of how knowledge of the sea trout and it’s behaviour have improved over the years.

The Sea Trout and the Fly is a fascinating book written in an easy-to-understand style. Well illustrated with over 130 diagrams and photographs, some in full colour, it is essential reading for all those who wish to improve their sea trout fishing." Includes chapters on night fishing, tackle, fly selection, small fry imitations, tube flies, doubles and trebles, the snake fly, surface lures and patterns, river, estuarine, loch, sea and coastal water fishing

A journey through the biology, conservation, management and fishing for one of our favourite species". Authoritative, practical work which will be of great use to anyone with an interest in the management and conservation of wild trout and their waters.

New ideas on approaching stillwater flyfishing for trout, with good sections on leader materials and construction, the diet of trout (with good photographs of the results of spooning fish) and imitation of naturals, bank and boat-fishing methods, and fly-patterns and tying.

Hardcover book in glossy pictorial boards VG cond. includes info on: tackle tactics, advanced theories, running a succesful team, the major fisheries, national and international competitions. Illustrated with photographs. 111 pages.

A book for boat-flyfishers" by an experienced boat angler and trout enthusiast who "tells of his experiments with a new kind of drogue, of the breakthrough of the intermediate flyline, his discoveries about hook-strengths and he shares his all-time favourite stillwater flies". With many anecdotes from the author’s own experience and accounts of some "fabulous locations ...on some thrilling trips". Covering lough-fishing for salmon and seatrout as well as lake and reservoir browns and rainbows, a good and comprehensive guide with very good plates of flies.

The definitive angler’s pocket reference to the insects of rivers and lakes - how to identify them and choose the matching artificial. In constant demand & newly reprinted

PUBLICATION DATE 27th OCTOBER. PRE-ORDERS NOW BEING TAKEN

A comprehensive book written by acknowledged experts aimed at all those interested in all kinds of game fishing and wish to improvetheir knowledge of the sport and their catches.

Subjects covered include:- Sea Trout, Brown & Rainbow Trout, Salmon, Grayling, Pike and Zander Fishing.

The first authoritative book on this highly efficient method of nymph fishing for trout and grayling. Very well illustrated with many patterns of Czech nymphs.

Colour photographs throughout, illustrations by Charles Jardine.

Matching the trout’s natural foods in European waters to artificial flies that imitate them - the secret of successful fly-fishing. A fully illustrated account of the trout’s natural prey, grouped by Families, with all the information the angler needs as to their identification, life-cycles, habitats and behaviour, with a comprehensive guide to the artificial imitations for each natural group, the materials for tying them and hints on their use.

The surprise success of the television series The Accidental Angler has brought the beautifully crafted, darkly humorous writing of Charles Rangeley-Wilson to a wider audience. It continues where his previous book Somewhere Else left off - carving out a new course of direction for fishing books.

This book takes you effortlessly across the world in search of trout but reveals so much more than what fly caught how many fish. His prose is clarity itself - you are right there with him seeing the world through his eyes untainted by the prejudice of others.

The Accidental Angler may have been cleaned up for the BBC and lacks the irreverent language of his earlier work but this does not mean that it has totally lost some of the more colourful turns of phrase to be heard when a good fish is lost or appreciative murmurs when a fish swirls in front of the fly "I don’t normally swear but those are friggin’ big fish"

Today, there are more participants worldwide in fly fishing than ever before and the sport is open for all to enjoy. Moreover, interest in fly fishing competition has also escalated.

In this clearly written and comprehensive book, the author provides the reader with a master class in advanced and competitive fly fishing with a single-handed fly rod.

Attention is paid to rods and equipment, to fishing methods and how to ’read’ the water, to casting techniques, to tying high performance flies and to presentation. The book ends with a consideration of coaching and training, a discussion of the places, people and fishing experiences that have shaped the author’s development as a fly fisherman, and a brief analysis of how the sport is likely to develop in the future.

Peter Gathercole, renowned fly-dresser, explains how to catch fish with flies.

The format of the book depends on split pages to illustrate where fish lurk, how different types of fly are needed for different situations and what tackle should be used.

Species covered include:-
Brown Trout, Sea Trout, Rainbow Trout, Steelhead, Cutthroat, Char/Brook Trout, Grayling, Coho, Chinook, Sockeye and Atlantic Salmon.