Synopses & Reviews
In one of the landmark works of saltwater fly-fishing, expert Lou Tabory provides invaluable advice on how best to fly fish for striped bass, bluefish, weakfish, and other cold-water marine species. He describes how to “read” rips, bars, flats, and beaches, gives advice on the best tackle for a given set of conditions (including the best flies), and devotes special sections to tides, night fishing, chumming, and more.
Twenty years after its first publication, Inshore Fly Fishing is still the only work a beginning or expert marine angler will ever need. Lou Tabory has fished these waters night and day, testing his ideas and polishing his already great casting skills. Today there are many writers who are more or less researchers: They fish a little, read a great deal, interview others, and finally, they write a book on the subject. But the information you read here is gathered from a lifetime on the water. If you are a serious angler and want to learn more about fishing this area, you wont find better or more detailed information than lies between these pages.
—from the Foreword by Lefty Kreh
Review
"No one I know understands the intricacies of successful fly fishing along the North American coast better."--Lefty Kreh
Synopsis
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 systemsall the information a beginning or expert marine fly fisherman needs to bring his or her skill set to the next level.
Synopsis
This pioneering guide to fly fishing along cold-water seacoasts will take freshwater fishermen to sea, and it will show saltwater fisherman how to fish a fly.
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 Taborys 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).
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