How to Flyfish: From newcomer to improver

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In this clear and attractive book are all the essential skills you need to be a competent all-round flyfisher. With John Symonds you will learn how to fish for trout and salmon in stillwaters from both bank and boat; in rivers; dry fly and wet fly. You will know how to tie reliable and easy knots, to construct the right leaders, learn where the fish are most likely to lie, how to cast to them and which flies to use. How to Flyfish will bring you up-to-date with all the latest on leader construction and knots, boat control with the paradrogue, traditional nymphing methods to the popular tenkara style. Packed with useful tips and clear diagrams. AUTHOR: John Symonds is a qualified (GAAI) game angling instructor, and he has combined his analytical and design skills as an engineer with his teaching abilities to produce this ground-breaking guidebook.

Reviews

An undaunting, accessible primer which is exactly what a newcomer to flyfishing is hoping for.

* Jeffrey Prest, Trout Fisherman *

This has a lot more depth than one might expect, achieved by allowing little or no havering, no quibbling explanations, no excursions into the background or history of tackle or techniques, no attempt to cover every outlandish possibility and little or no attempt to win the reader over with twee anecdotes. Symonds is direct: do this get that try the other and he puts together a pretty convincing flyfishing foundation.

* Flyfishing and Flytying magazine *

John Symonds has grasped the nettle and produced a very clear and attractive book, which packs a great deal of very useful and pertinent advice into a fairly compact space. Altogether a thoroughly good book, and if I had had access to such when I was a struggling beginner, I should have been very grateful for it. If you know a new fly fisher who would benefit from steady, sound advice, this book would be a most timely gift.

* Grayling News *

If you are new to the sport and need to know the basics, this is a very clear, well laid-out account that has the great virtue of keeping things simple.

* CLA magazine *

Author Bio

John Symonds is a keen fly-fisherman and fishes for salmon, trout and grayling in the Wye and Usk catchments as well as the Welsh borderlands. He decided to become a certified casting instructor and guide as a retirement occupation and has successfully qualified to Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructors (APGAI) single- and double-handed levels, and is an International Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) Two-Handed Casting Instructor (THCI). Johns other interests include photography and graphic design. He lives in Hereford.