This guide provides instructions for taking smallmouth bass on the fly rod in all types of habitat, throughout the year and up and down the water column. At its core is a thorough study of the smallmouth’s life cycle, behavior, forage, and seasonal and daily movements.
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A detailed and comprehensive guide to all aspects of making fine bamboo fly rods.Wayne Cattanach begins in the Kwangsi and Kwantung provinces of China, where Tonkin bamboo takes about eight years to develop the qualities that distinguish it from all other materials: a tensile strength akin to steel, light in weight, with the flexibility that […]
This book features 80 full-color, step-by-step photographs and accompanying text for hand-crafting your own quality fly rod. Professional rod builder Louis Garcia meticulously shows you exactly how to do it from selecting the blank to completing the wraps for a truly professional-looking rod. Large format for easy use.
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Celebrates the art of the bamboo fly rod and offers a detailed and memorable portrait of the pleasures of “fishing bamboo.” This book has a helpful bibliography and lists of reliable rod dealers and modern bamboo rod-makers. This is an introduction to bamboo rods and to the subculture of people who make, buy, collect and […]
An all-color book by master rod builder, Ray Gould. Included is the history of cane, the creation of the machines and tools necessary to create your own rods, precise taper formulas, detailed schematic drawings with precise angles, step-by-step construction, finishing steps, formulas, repairs, historic cane manufacturers and model names, and address and phone sources for […]
A perfect primer on the most fun way to catch bass. BASSIN is more fun with a fly rod!Over 20 million people go out for bass every year, and in this important book Jack Ellis unravels some of the barriers that face the fly-rod bass fisherman whether a new convert from spinning and baitcasting […]
