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Our where-to stream and ocean guides will help you find great fishing spots, and our how-to fishing books will teach you how to flycast, tie flies, and match the hatch, and even how to make your own bamboo or graphite fly rod

The Essence of Flycasting

Mel Krieger
Photographs by Ben Blackwell
Foreword by A. J. McClane
With a new preface by the author

This classic instructional text, used in flycasting schools around the world, is now available to the book trade for the first time.

Fly-casting is a skill of almost mythic proportions. The gymnastic beauty of the casting scenes in the film A River Runs Through It sent thousands of new anglers to the shores of America's streams and lakes. Yet more often than not, discussions or instructions about casting bog down in a world of technical minutiae that is almost impenetrable to the beginner. Mel Krieger has cracked the code in The Essence of Flycasting. Through detailed instructions and dozens of precise photographs and diagrams, he clearly dissects this arcane art into understandable and executable steps to take the raw beginner from piles of line on the ground to graceful loops in the air. And the seasoned veteran will advance from struggling with 30-foot casts to skillfully double-hauling vastly more line across the water. This classic book of fly-fishing instruction belongs in every fishing library.

"Mel Krieger has found the best way to translate flycasting instruction into print."
--Steve Rajeff, world casting champion and fly-rod designer



$21.95 (Can. $31.99)
0-88150-505-6
8 x 10, 144 pages, paperback, 125 b & w photographs, 26 illustrations